Successclick, Domain Monetization

WHYPARK HITS ME A HOME RUN IN THE FIRST INNING

It’s no secret that I’m a big WhyPark.com fan. From having the best head honcho (of any domain industry company) in Craig Rowe, to their CS wizard, Kelly Urqhart, and their PPC pals at Parked.com (I think I’ve heard of names there like “donny, “monte”, “sigmund” and others,   ) the fact that setting up websites quickly and effectively at WhyPark is a main focus of mine, and has now proved its benefits faster than I expected.

I own ElectricFashion.com™, and since it wasn’t doing anything at Parked.com, with few visitors, maybe a few pennies a month, I decided that it was time to do a “preemptive” move that I’m surprised I haven’t thought of before and offered to my clients and readers. Well, here it is.

NOTE: I think this is an important strategy to embrace if you have over 100 domains, and many of those domains are branding or generic descriptive domains under 16 characters (no hyphens, numbers, contractions, prepositions, etc.)

Do you want to have a “offensive” defense against “reverse-hijacking” attempts and at the same time have a good chance of getting your domain indexed? (parking your domain at a PPC  landing page will NOT advance your domain in the SE’s).

Try this — it gives you a fighting chance:

For this strategic option, you have to consider whether you want to move a domain that is making good money at your PS in order to PROTECT it from possible “reverse hijacking” attempts. If you feel confident where your domain is parked, and you have great domain attorneys, then this doesn’t affect those domains. But what about those domains that aren’t performing as “hello! You have a big vacation coming” revenue generators?

What if you have a generic domain that you know is powerful, and is just waiting for that end-user sale? Ooops! You’re getting attacked by some company who feels your domain is infringing on their copyright, even though you know it’s generic, and should be safe. This happens to domainers every month.

What can domainers do to help PREVENT the kneejerk move by some companies trying to reverse-hijack your domains?

ANSWER: Move your domain from a landing page (like Domainsponsor, TrafficZ, Parked, Sedo, etc) to a content-building site, such as WhyPark.com or other content building sites.

HERE’S THE BIG SCARECROW FOR YOU TO FRIGHTEN THE CROWS: DON’T BE AFRAID TO TELL THE WORLD THAT YOU’RE TMing YOUR DOMAIN!

Set up your new content sites to present the phrases of their domains with a “TM” behind the phrase. Yes, you can start establishing your own TM ownership on your domains by simply presenting the domain consistently with the “TM” mark behind the domain phrase, or the domain itself. Trademarks take five years to be reviewed and established, and the first thing the govt looks at is if you’ve been using your domain phrase clearly marked as a “TM”.  The longer you’ve been promoting your domain as a TM, the stronger your case is for you owning that domain phrase.

I’ve digressed. My original story is this:  I set up my TM domain ElectricFashion.com™ about a week ago, and the Google-searched phrase “electric fashion” popped up my domain, showing it was indexed within a week of moving it to WhyPark. That’s right, I just noticed that my domain site at WhyPark has been indexed by Google today.  If you look up that phrase, I’m in the top 10 results. For those “Google kills those content developer sites” proponents, here’s the news: This domain is parked at WhyPark and is in Google results.

So I’m excited about this — I am moving as many domains not receiving typein traffic over to WhyPark as fast as I can, and adding a Custom Page or two to make things speed up, so to say.

Final Note: I have about 202 domains which made nothing at PS’s now making me about $70-$100 a month in revenue at WhyPark. I have about 3200 domains split at three other PS’s, and only one of the PS’s can triple that amount… and that’s with 7 times as many domains. Granted, I’m a “future trend” domain buyer/flipper, but I’m impressed that I can take domains that made nothing and quickly start generating some monthly income on them through OST. (Organic Search Traffic — or SET “Search Engine Traffic”).  Seeing one of my “future trend” domains get indexed on Google in a week is a big jump ahead for my monetization AND resale potential for that domain.

So much for the neggy nellies attacking Whypark’s rapid popularity and proof of monetization revenues going up. I welcome any questions or comments regarding Whypark users’ and their experiences, pro or con, and if you have an issue, I’ll be glad to help resolve them for you.

Happy Domaining!