Hi!

Please excuse the following, totally newbie questions. But I hope someone will explain the following to me.

I understand what a PPC company is and what they do but... how does one get any traffic to just a domain name? As I understand it, a user must type in your url and then would be redirected to sedo's parked page with banner ads, etc. (Just using sedo as an example.) I can understand this with say a once popular website or whatever.

But just an undeveloped registered domain name? Why would someone type it in ...they don't even know it exists. Potential buyers of the name perhaps but...

If it's just a registered name with no website it won't show up in any search engines, correct? How does one get any traffic to an unknown domain name?

I must be missing something. Can someone explain it to me?

Thank you.

Yea... only generic domain names get type-in traffic.
Domains like girls.com, men.com etc. People just type them in.

Or typos. Like grils.com, sxe.com.

There is no traffic in most of domains and it's not easy to find an available name that has traffic.

Thank you for the quick reply - I do appreciate that.

But then why are there PPC companies offering this? Aren't most generic domains fully-developed websites?

Someone must use the PPC companies with less-than-generic domains or they wouldn't be in business. Where does this traffic come from?


Thank you.

1. Traffic either comes from links.
In this case we are talking of a domain of a former site that other people linked to and their links to that domain are still all over the internet.
2. Or traffic is type in. It is either generic words or phraser or typos of other domains. For example yaho.com. Where does the traffic come from? Yahoo.com advertises their site and some people mistype the domain.

Internet is real big. Recent case when Verisign pointed traffic of all unregistered domain names to their page it scored 20 million a day and that is only mistyped traffic of .com and .net domains.
Mistyped and unregistered traffic.

It is true that to make decent profits you need many traffic domains that are not easy to get. But when you work with it, you have a good chance collecting a good portfolio that will make money.

Interesting ....very interesting.

I would assume you do this? Are there people actually making a living doing this?

I did read of the Verisign case but didn't know exactly what they were doing. You cleared that up for me as well.

I appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to share it.

Thank you.

Yes, this is one of the things I do, it's all orelated - when you buy good domains for resale, they most likely get traffic.
There are people who make 4-6 figures a day of their traffic.
Not one man and not two.

>>>There are people who make 4-6 figures a day of their traffic.
4-6 figures a day!?! Is that right? I'm in the wrong business.

If you don't mind me keeping this thread alive... Why sign up with say sedo (or any of them) ...If you have enough traffic, wouldn't you be better off with your own one page banner/ad page and get the full affiliate payment?

Traffic monetizatioon works approximately like this:

Advertisers got to Google or other Search Engine and buy traffic.
You can check what advertisers pay for traffic related to "russian music" here http://uv.bidtool.overture.com/d/search/tools/bidtool/
You will notice top advertiser pays 51 cent per click.
So when someone goes to google, andsearches for "rusian music', gogle will return results and the ads of the advertisers. When those ads are clicked, google charges the advertisers according to their bids.

Now, if you have russianmusic.com domain name. Obviously paople who type in this domain are looking for russian music.
As this traffic is very targeted, it is thought to be the same kind of traffic that you get from SEs when somenoe searches for "russian music" there.

What sedo.us does, it has a contract with google. So, if russianmusic.com is parked on sedo.us, it will display links of the Google's advertisers.
When someone clicks on a link, Google charges it's advertiser and gives 50% of proffits to sedo.us. Sedo.us then gives 50% of it's proffit, which is 25% of what advertiser paid originaly to the owner of the domain.

Google will not partner with you directly unless you have very high traffic therefore it is not an option.

This domain alone makes several hundred bucks a day I would guess.