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One of my NamePros buddy’s, Leland recently launched ThemeLab.com, an amazing WordPress resource website featuring free professional quality themes for your WordPress powered blogs and websites. You can also find some insightful articles related to WordPress development.

One such article is targeted at domain owners who either do not park their domain names or are looking for an alternative. Pay-Per-Click revenue shares can often times be very low, especially if your targeted keywords are not in high demand.

Put Your Dormant Domains to Use with WordPress

In his article, “Put Your Dormant Domains to Use with WordPress” Leland explains the process of creating a RSS feed powered website which will syndicate RSS feeds, keeping your content fresh and of course giving credit to the feed source.

Leland says… “This isn’t a guide on making content scraping/rewriting splogs. I’m merely going over a much more efficient way to monetize unused domains, or possibly to augment your current blog with regularly updated news from relevant feeds. Aggregating RSS feeds legally is a perfectly legitimate way to add content to your WordPress blog.”

Benefits of WordPress Powered “Parking”

• Much more SEO friendly than conventional parked landing pages
• Content is fresh and regularly updated
• Ability to sell direct advertising
• Earn 100% revenue share, cut out the middle man
• Include other revenue streams such as affiliate programs
• Insert unique content and articles
• Gain repeat visitors or “subscribers”

The process is quite simple. Install WordPress along with a special plugin (FeedWordPress) and make a few changes to your template files. The benefits seem to make RSS feed powered websites a much better alternative to domain parking. Read the article for complete instructions and to get started!

“Now is the time to dump those stagnant parked pages and start developing your unused domains into dynamic and content-rich websites.”

What are your thoughts? Do you currently use RSS feed powered websites to “park” and develop your domain portfolio? I would love to hear what you have to say, please leave a comment.

This article is from DotSauce Magazine – The Domain Industry’s HOTTEST Publication!

RSS Feed Powered Websites: An Alternative to Domain Parking

The popular internet security company McAfee has published a detailed study on domain name typos entitled “The State of Typo-Squatting 2007.” To be clear this study is not exactly on domain parking in general, but more specifically those domains which target misspellings of well-known brands, companies and websites.

Within this well-researched publication you can find more details on the McAfee’s methodology as well as tables detailing the following interesting information:

• Squatter Frequency Ranked by Selected Countries
      (UK, Portugal, Spain…)
• Top 100 Sites for Expected Typo-Squatting
      (FreeCreditReport, Orkut, MetaCafe…)
• Most Frequently Squatted Categories
      (Games, Airlines, Media…)

Key Findings - Highlights

• The average browser: Typical consumers who misspell a popular Web site URL have a 1 in 14 chance of landing at a likely typo-squatter site.
• The biggest middle men: Top five parking companies, ranked by the percentage of squatters parked by them, are Information (28.5%), Hitfarm (11.3%), Domainsponsor (2.9%), Sedo (2.5%) and GoDaddy (2.3%). Together, the top five park 47.5% of squatters.
• Following the crowds: Popular, consumer-focused Web sites typically attract more squatters than business to business sites or niche content sites.
• Look What I Found Mommy: The incidence of pornographic content on non-adult typo-squatted sites is just 2.4%, suggesting improvement since previous studies by other researchers.
• The McDonald’s Effect: The average for the category is 8.4% and 24 of the top most squatted sites are children’s properties for kids 12 and under. Add in sites like MySpace and Miniclip and more than 60 of the top most squatted sites are properties that appeal to the 18 and under demographic.

Kevin Ham - The “.CM” Takeover

I found this interesting bit of information that I surprisingly had not heard yet.

Kevin Ham, an extremely successful domainer, struck a deal with the government of Cameroon to re-direct un-registered “.cm” typos to an ad-filled parking page owned by him. This wildcarding of the .cm domain is quite controversial.

New DotSauce Poll Question

What are your thoughts on domain name typos? Please respond to the latest poll question found in the right sidebar. I would also love to hear your comments, please leave one in the form below.

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