Make Money Online

Parking a domain name is fine at the beginning especially if you own a good number of keyword domains that get type in traffic as I do and lack the time to develop them right away. Also parking a domain name can be a blessing in disguise.

One reason I park domains is to check the traffic coming to them as well as the content matched to the domain measured by the click throughs hence money for my pocket. I also have stats tied to each individual domain name. This enables me to check what visitors have searched on to reach my website helping me to figure out keywords to use with the site I will eventually develop.

When developing your parked domain into a website you want to make as much money as possible from the domain name, not only to pocket each month, but to increase the value of the domain should you decide to sell it down the road.

When developing your website keep in mind you want this site to look like a real website, however it can be a simple mini site. Basically include at least your home page, a contact page; I try to include at least one article, not on the homepage but rather a separate page on the website and also include a sitemap page. This is the minimum I would place on a developed website however you could develop it into a fully operational community or other type of website.

Just for example, one of my developed websites which originally started as a parked page is Wholesale Eyeglasses. This website offers designer eyeglasses and sunglasses and hosts 30,000 frame styles on the website. Now it did not take a huge number of pages as it is database driven with the use of MySQL. Realistically Wholesale Eyeglasses is just 5 pages, however most visitors would never know it.

As for products or services offered off your developed website, I highly recommend LinkConnector. They offer a good number of programs to join for free while offering a neat, easy to setup widget creator. This allows you to display products right from your own website without having to use a database driven site such as mine.

Next you want an autoresponder to capture visitors name and email addresses. This is important as you will create at least 7 follow-up emails that are automated in the background for you. Once a person signs up for your autoresponder, they will receive further information for the next few weeks automatically. The information should pertain to the website they signed up from, offering free shipping offers, coupon codes and other information to drive them back to your website to place an order.

The real genius behind an autoresponder is the fact that you are building a relationship with the visitors. This relationship will go a long way in having visitors place orders with you.

Good Luck in your Online Adventures,

Bruce