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How to Monetize Domain Names

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1. Google Adsense

Google Adsense is the king of domain monetization as far as popularity and ease of use. You can literally have money making ads set up on your domain name with just a couple of clicks and some copy and paste action on your end.

Adsense is a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertisement in that advertisers pay Google every time someone clicks on one of their text, image, or video advertisements and Google in turn pays you the website owner a portion of that money.

It is important to distinguish Google Adsense from Google Adwords. They are both very similar yet the difference is that Google Adsense is the publisher side of things where the advertisements show up on websites that are run by webmasters using Adsense and Google Adwords is where advertisements show up next to and on top of Google’s regular search results.

Note: to use Google Adsense you must have a privacy policy on your website and actually have some unique content published to your website unless you use Google Adsense for parked domains (see #3 below for more information on making money by parking your domains).

2. Affiliate Programs

Almost every major website has some sort of affiliate program. In fact you can check out the Domain Superstar Affiliate Program if you would like to earn some money by referring people to our site to sign up for premium membership.

An affiliate program is used by a merchant to pay its affiliates when a user clicks on a special affiliate tracking link. Different affiliate programs are structured different ways. Some affiliate programs pay per sale, others pay per lead, and still others pay per action. Some of the features to look for in a merchant that you would like to have an affiliate relationship with is timely payouts, high converting offers, and cobranding.

You can join a merchant’s affiliate program directly if the merchant has an in house affiliate program although many merchants use a 3rd party affiliate network like Commission Junction or LinkShare.

3. Domain Parking

If you thought that using Google Adsense to monetize your domains was easy then parking your domain is even easier.

All that you have to do to make money parking your domains is to just point your domains nameservers to the domain parking company of your choice and then voila they take care of the rest.

Typically a parked page will show PPC ads similar to Adsense (in fact Google Adsense has recently made a foray into the domain parking business) although some parking companies will fill your domain with some type of content.

4. Selling Advertising

If any of your domains are built out into websites and have some traffic then one option for making money with your domain names is to sell advertising. This is pretty straightforward. You can use a service like to sell advertising for you or you can sell the advertising space yourself.

5. Selling Your Own Product or Service

Of course what might be the best way to monetize a domain name is actually selling your own product or service. While there is certainly more work involved in dealing with customers/clients, managing inventory, etc. there is also huge potential upside to sell your own product or service.

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