Creating Keywords
cory said 3 years, 3 months ago:
Creating effective keywords is one of the most important aspects of monetizing your domains with CashParking. Tell us about your experiences. What has worked well for you in the past? What has not worked so well?
pen said 3 years, 3 months ago:
When keywording I like to use free online tools to find what people are searching for as well as what advertisers are paying for.
Wordtracker has a nice keyword tool located here:
freekeywords.wordtracker.com
The Wordtracker tool is a great resource to mine for long-tail keywords when decided what domains may generate type-in traffic.
For example: a wordtracker search on “car insurance” lists out the top 100 keyword combinations that users have searched for over the last year. I tend to think that a keyword phrase that’s searched for more than once a day is worthwhile to have in my portfolio, so I would take all results with greater than 400 searches, scrape trademarks, any phrase > 4 words and pass them into the GoDaddy bulk search.
As it turns out, CanadianCarInsurancePolicy.com is available (at time of writing this). Now, some may not like how long the domain is, but it is generic, easy to spell, easy to advertise and receives 412 exact match searches a year. A worthwhile purchase indeed.
My domains are automatically pointed to CashParking nameservers upon registration, so no need to worry about that part, next step would be to assign a template and keywords.
For keywords it’s important to know what advertisers are paying for. The higher the competition and price of the ads, the better payout a click will get. This is where Google’s adwords keyword tool comes into play:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
I type in “canadian car insurance policy” to the Google tool and select “show all” for the columns to display and then sort by the “Estimated avg. CPC”
What this tells me for these keywords is that advertisers are currently being charged $37 for each click on the keywords “auto insurance quotes online” so that would seem to be the way to go…. However, keep in mind that the only way to collect PPC rev for your domain is to actually have a person interested enough in the ads to click on them. Perhaps someone coming to CanadianCarInsurancePolicy.com would be less willing to click on generic auto insurance quotes ads. So, scrolling a bit on the list shows me that the keywords “canadian car insurance” cost advertisers $22 per click, still a VERY high CPC and, more importantly, something that more closely fits what my visitors are coming to find. So, this is the keyword combo I’d go with.
So, I use wordtracker keywords to find what people are looking for, then AdWord keywords to find a close keyword match that advertisers are paying high $$ for.
Thoughts?
cory said 3 years, 2 months ago:
Pen,
This is some great information on how to get started monetizing domains with CPC. Has anyone else worked with CashParking and found strategies that have (or haven’t) worked well?
nootkabear said 2 years, 9 months ago:
This forum is about dead. Never seen a forum like this
Kimberly said 2 years, 9 months ago:
@NootkaBear
Hello Nootka,
Since the Go Daddy community is new, we are gaining new and knowledgeable members every day. I am on the Cash Parking product team and am happy to answer your questions.
emasereka said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Pen,
That was great peace of info, i purchased my Discount Domain Club account 2 days ago and have been trying to add some packed domains to my cashpacking program. One question that has been running in my mind was how on earth i will get my packed domains to show up on top positions of search engines. You provide some important information that can get one started. I really want to start on the correct note and i wouldint think of a better post than this. Please share any other clues that can help. One mistake i right away can see i have made was to register domains without researching them well enough!!!
Am really enjoying myself with this community, please keep it up!
Edison
pen said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Edison,
Parked domains aren’t intended to generate traffic from search engines. Search is only one way a user can happen upon a domain, other ways include links from other websites (backlinks) or via typing the domain directly into the url bar of your browser (natural or type-in traffic).
When you register a brand new domain and park it, the only way that you’ll get traffic is via type ins. Expired domains, like those found at Go Daddy Auctions, can sometimes be purchased with an existing stream of traffic from outdated backlinks, but these will eventually dry up as the websites that link to your new domain realize the link is no longer valid.
This is why generic keyword domains are imperative in your parking portfolio, you need to have a domain that makes sense and that someone may want to type into their browser bar. In my example above, CanadianCarInsurancePolicy received 400+ searches a month meaning that there’s a very good chance the exact match domain may also receive some traffic from people who would rather just type it into their browser bar than go to a search engine first and type it there.
If you feel that natural traffic is not going to come to your parked page, then you may need to build a web site and add content that is valuable to the users you are trying to reach. Go Daddy has several full site builders as well as a quick site builder within Cash Parking called Quick Content. Quick Content will get you a fully hosted site spun up with auto-updating content for just $8.99.
Hope that helps.
-Pen
emasereka said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Pen,
Thanks for the info! But at the moment even when i type the exact name of my domain in the url bar of my browser, i still do not get to my packed page. Infact i get to a google page with different advertisers. I guess anyother person with the same type in would get the sinilar results. What does this mean? The other thing is how do i create a back link? if am writing a blog and want to insert a backlink to my packed domain how do i insert it so that when clicked it takes the reader to my page?
I also asked if am allowed to forexample include a url of my packed domain in my tweets, i thought this was one way i can get an interested member of my social media community to check out my page, but i have not got any reply yet. Please advise, i really would not want to do something that is not allowed.
Regards
Edison
Baillee said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Edison,
I recommend checking out the Terms of Service for CashParking, which you can find here:
http://www.godaddy.com/Legal-Agreements.aspx?ci=8294
Furthermore, backlinks are inward links to your site. Therefore, a blog other other website would need to create a link on their page back to your website. Depending on the site building software, there are various ways to create a link.
Lastly, if your domain is not pointing to your CashParking account correctly, I recommend checking out our Getting Started Guide for CashParking to verify everything is set up correctly. You can find that guide here:
http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/2282
Hope this helps!
- Baillee
emasereka said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Baillee,
Thank you for the info. I added quick contenet to one of my CashPacked Domains to try and evaluate wheather CashPacked Domains with Quick Contenet perform better than ordinary CashPacked ones so that i could apply it to all my other Packed domains. My site was successfully published and i can view it from a google search.
However to my suprise, the ads (sponsored links) that were previously showing on the domain before i added Quick Content were nolonger there. The site only showed recent articles. Am now wondering how i will be able to earn revenue when there are no ads on the site? I had thought quick content would only be an addition to the ads on the site to enable the site to be indexed by search engines! but it looks like quick content just replaces all the ads and only shows articles written by aurthors. Do i earn revenue from visitors reading the articles? I have tried to read help on quick content but am not get it.
Please help me understand how this works.
Edison
pen said 2 years, 5 months ago:
Edison,
Great news that your Quick Content site has already been indexed by Google! As Quick Content sites are real hosted websites, and not traditional parked pages you will need to use your own Google AdSense for Content account to return ads.
All you need to do is go to https://www.google.com/adsense and setup an account (if you don’t already have one. Then, copy your publisher number (pub-XXXXXX in the upper-right part of AdSense website) and paste it into the “site info” section of your Quick Content site.
Once you publish your site after adding the pub id you’ll notice that ads will begin showing up on your sites and all revenue made from those ads will be trackable (and 100% payable to you) via the Google AdSense page.
-Pen
davidson said 2 years, 3 months ago:
Hi! Is Quick Content still sold by GoDaddy? Or it had changed to Website Tonight?
Nate D said 2 years, 3 months ago:
@davidson – Yes… Quick Content and Website Tonight do different things. Website Tonight is you you to input your own content in a professionally designed template. Quick Content automatically adds content to a parked page. To start an account you’ll need to get CashParking first and then upgrade.
davidson said 2 years, 3 months ago:
Thanks Nate. Is it possible to use Cash Parking + Quick Content + Google AdSense at the same time?
Nate D said 2 years, 3 months ago:
Yes, actually that is how it works. When you activate and set-up Quick Content you need to put in your AdSense ID.
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