Parking Arbitrage
February 3rd, 2008Well, some of you may have noticed this blog hasnt been updated in about 2 weeks. Ive been swamped. I had decided to throw my hat into something called Parking Arbitrage, which is basically buying traffic, and sending it to a parked page. Be Advised, its very complicated, and VERY hard to pull off. In about a week, I can say I have successfully created about 3 campaigns that appear profitable. (1 is making about $5-15 per day and the others, randomly making a few dollars) The issue here is mainly trying to figure out how to get as much traffic as possible, to the right pages, for the right prices/return.
I can promise you this. It took a solid 3-4 days of frustration before I was able to create a “successful” campaign. I will update further this week when I begin to open up the doors more, as Im just starting to find a workable formula that seems to work for me.
Justin
Hi Justin,
Just to say I’m anxiously awaiting your report. This is something I think a lot of domainers are curious about but about which information is extremely hard to come by. I hope you’ll include as many details as you feel comfortable parting with.
Best,
ww
Comment by woolwit — February 4, 2008 @ 5:28 am
Well, its a funny day today. Since waking up after making this post, it seems Google has decided to slap me around a bit. The one campaign I began to have success with google has upped my min buy price, and it seems have narrowed my traffic to a trickle. Yesterday I had about 90 clicks (from Google) and thus far more than halfway through the day, Im at 7)… More tweaking is needed.
Comment by admin — February 4, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
Hey Justin,
I’m thinking that announcement from Parked that Yahoo is no longer permitting arbitrage might have affected the outcome of your experiments. At the same time, that announcement brought to the surface posts to message boards about the decision costing individual domainers in the five figures per month range. So there must be a lot of arbitrage going on- but the details are hard to come by. Still hoping to hear more about your experience.
ww
Comment by woolwit — February 23, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
Well written article.
Comment by Nira — October 29, 2008 @ 2:02 am