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Building a website is just the first step. Search engine optimization (SEO) will get your site listed in Google and other search engines. That's a good start, but marketing and promotion will bring in even more traffic.

If you own domains that you are not using you can park them and earn money. These parked domains can even earn more than fully developed domains. Sounds simple, right? It can be, but it may be hard to know how to start. I spend a lot of time helping people earn money from domain parking at parkquick.com. This site will be more free-form. I'll add stuff here that's too brief or too ephemeral to add to ParkQuick.

I'm coming at this from a different angle. I'm a domainer first. I'm learning the rest of it. I'll share a lot of what I learn - but who shares everything?

- Leonard Holmes



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Why Would Anyone Pay Thousands for a Domain Name? Marketing Trends October 16, 2008 By Wendy Kennedy
It’s not cliche to say that today every dollar counts. Times are tight — for some, times are very tight — and business owners across the country are looking at every dollar they spend to make sure they are getting the return they need from the money they invest. So why then, in times such as these, would anyone be willing to pay thousands of dollars for a simple domain name? The answer is easy: because those simple domains (often called premium domains) can make a difference.
— Why Would Anyone Pay Thousands for a Domain Name? | Small Business Trends
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2009 in Review

2009 was certainly a year of ups and downs. Most of us who have made money from domain parking will agree that it was mostly a year of downs. The year started off on high note with DOMAINfest…
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Upcoming Events focus on Monetization

The upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas show (January 21-23 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino) is the first produced by Rick Latona. He has ditched Rick Schwartz’s “invitation only” policy and opened…
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A reader just sent me a link to an iCarly episode that deals with domain names. I must admit I’ve never seen this Nickelodeon show before, but the description of this episode makes it almost worth paying the $1.99 to view the episode on Amazon UnBox:

“iWant My Website Back” – Spencer gets a new credit card after canceling his old one, causing Carly, Sam, and Freddie to lose control of the iCarly.com domain. Luckily, Mandy (who appeared in “iAm Your Biggest Fan”) returns to buy their website back for them, but she gets tricked into giving it to Nevel.”

— Domain Name Wire  » News  » iCarly Teaches Youngsters to Not Let Their Domain Names Expire
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Sedo Gets a Facelift

The domain giant Sedo has given their site a much-needed facelift. The site looks cleaner throughout, but some of the content is now buried a little deeper. You may also find that some…
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We thought we’d make it easy for you to become an Expert Domainer, without having to try much. Here’s a mini guide on what you need to keep in mind so that others view you as a person of great importance, when in fact you have no background with domains, no history of sales, no development portfolio and no real place in the industry other than the pathetic domain portfolio that you’ve amassed. 1. Get a blog. Call it “FirstNameBlog.com” or if that’s already taken go after “FirstNameLastNameBlog.com” 2. Install Wordpress and get a $27 skin for it. 3. Start blogging about your day: what you did with yourself, or your girlfriend or about something you read in another blog. 4. Blog about something your friend wrote in another blog and link to it. Ask your friend to blog about what you did and to link to yours. Infinite loop. 5. Tweet and blog about your blog. Don’t forget to thank people for retweeting your thanks and blog about it. Then tweet about it again. Tell your friends to tweet about your tweets and blog about them as well. 6. Mention the latest GoDaddy coupons and where you can get web hosting for under $5. Anything cheap or free is a great subject on your way to become a celebrity “Expert Domainer”.
— How to become an Expert Domainer despite having no clue what you’re doing | DomainGang
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Monetizing Domains through Sales - Best Practices

Before domain parking most domain owners monetized their domain portfolio through domain sales. Paying the registration fees for a large portfolio can be a challenge. Before you allow your domains…
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DomainSponsor Invades Europe

DomainSponsor announced Monday that it is opening an office in Europe in early 2010. They have appointed Joerg Schnermann as General Manager for DomainSponsor Europe. They also announced the…
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Monetizing a Domain Portfolio - Multiple Streams of Income

When monetizing your domain portfolio it is important to adopt the concept of multiple streams of income. Many domain owners got lazy in the last few years as domain parking provided good income for…
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DevHub gets more Money

We’ve followed DevHub since it was EvoLanding. The parent company announced this month that it has secured a round of growth capital totaling $1.5 million.

DevHub reports that they now have…