Frequently Asked Domain Parking Questions
What is RevenueDirect domain parking?
RevenueDirect is a top domain monetization service. When you park your domains with RevenueDirect you have the opportunity to earn money by driving your domain traffic to targeted and relevant results. Each time a visitor clicks on an ad on your domain parking page, you generate earnings. RevenueDirect's superior domain management tools allow you to efficiently manage your domains and track earnings with advanced reporting functions.
How can my domains generate revenue?
There are two ways you may be able generate revenue. You can receive advertising commissions from domain traffic through PPC, CPM or CPA models. Revenue may also be earned when you sell domains.
Where does domain traffic come from?
Domain traffic primarily comes from type-in traffic, search engine referrals, and organic search engine listings. Type-in traffic occurs when people type in domains as a searching behavior (i.e. "FindMeACar.com"). Search engine referrals occur when the search engine refers users to the domain when it is typed into the search box. Organic search engine listings may be another source, when parked pages are listed in the search engines.
Who are your advertising partners?
RevenueDirect leverages high volume agreements with multiple advertising partners to ensure that you receive the highest payouts possible.
What terms and conditions exist to participate in this service?
Participants must follow the RevenueDirect Terms and Conditions. Specifically, customers may not generate traffic to their website or our links by any of the following methods: listings on newsgroups, bulk e-mailing, ICQ postings, chatroom or IRC postings, iframes, zero pixel frames, hitbots, clickbots, spiders, cgi-scripts, java-scripts, or any other similar method.
Customers may not misuse templates, modify the website, create content, or generate keywords on subjects that are not related to and/or do not have a logical and clear connection with domain name (i.e. golfcountry.com using an Music template and/or mortgage keyword). The purpose of relevant traffic is so that it can be expected that individual users that make up the traffic to the website would be interested in the advertisements presented on the website.
Customers may not beg, ask, entice, pay to read (PTR), mislead, or give incentives to users to reach the website and click on our links. Client should not misguide traffic or indicate that users will receive anything other than an internet search by clicking on a text link or search box.
How do I park my domains with your service?
It's easy! Sign up for an account. Add your domains. Update your nameservers to:
NS1.REVENUEDIRECT.COM
NS2.REVENUEDIRECT.COM
To use URL Forwarding, direct your traffic to:
http://traffic.revenuedirect.com/index.php?domain_name=yourdomainhere
Your domain must already be in your account to use URL forwarding.
Note: the use of frames/iframes is strictly prohibited
How much will I earn through this system?
RevenueDirect utilizes advertising relationships to offer cost-per-click (CPC) and cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) on your domain pages. Revenue is generated when users click on desired ads, or when ads are shown to users. You receive a portion of the commission generated from your domains.
What are my payment options?
Payments can be sent via Check or PayPal.
When do I get paid for my earnings?
Payments via check are sent once a month on the 10th of the month for the previous month's earnings. PayPal payments are sent twice a month on the 10th and 25th. PayPal payments sent on the 10th are for earnings generated between the 16th and 31st of the prior month. PayPal payments sent on the 25th are for earnings generated between the 1st and 15th of the same month. Accounts receiving a PayPal payment for the first time are only eligible to receive their first payment on the 10th. Once an account has received its first payment it will become eligible for bi-monthly PayPal payments.
Do you have a minimum payout amount?
Yes, your account must have a minimum balance of $50 in order to receive payment. If you do not hit $50 your first month, the balance will be transferred over to the next month and so forth, until you reach $50. You must complete the tax form before receiving your first payment. Payments are in US Dollars.
Do you offer custom reports?
Yes. You can customize reports to include all or some of the following items:
Registrar, Status, Create Date, Expire Date, Updated Date, Name Servers, Visits, Page Views, Clicks, CTR, CPC, RPM, and Revenue.
Can I get scheduled reports emailed to me?
Yes. You can schedule reports to be sent to your desired email address on daily, weekly, and/or monthly basis. Files will be received in a .CSV format.
What is domain optimization?
Domain optimization occurs when the ads on your website are targeted so that they are as relevant as possible. This will help ensure visitors will find what they are looking for.
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What will my domains look like after adding them to the service?
RevenueDirect has over 200 templates to choose from. The design is different for each category or template chosen for your domain. If you would like to request a new template to be created please send your request to info@revenuedirect.com.
What is auto-optimization?
RevenueDirect's auto-optimization feature tracks user behavior on your domain real estate. The system uses this data to help your domains and display more targeted results. As new patterns are identified, domain settings are updated automatically.
Do you offer manual optimization?
Yes. You can override auto optimization and optimize your domain manually by choosing templates, adding targeted keywords or you can contact your Account Manager to research your domain for premium optimization. There is no limit on the number of domains we will optimize for you.
Why am I seeing "404 Page Not Found" errors when I try to visit my domains?
RevenueDirect is committed to protecting advertisers and domain owners from click fraud. If you are seeing a "404 Page Not Found" error, it is likely not a problem with our service, but that you have triggered a fraud protection defense by visiting a large number of your own domains. To avoid this problem, we recommend using the "Preview Domain" within your account when in the Search and Optimize area to check your domain settings.
How do I customize a landing page for my domain?
Go to Manage, then search for the domain(s) you wish to modify. Click on the domain name in the search results to open up the optimization dialog, or select multiple domains using the checkboxes and modify them all at once through the Workbench at the top of the page. See the tutorial here.
What can I customize on the landing page?
You can customize any or all of the following:
Header text
Image
Colors (Text and/or background)
Content (Add text as a header or footer)
Layout
Popular Search Terms
See the tutorial here.
How do I apply my customized landing page settings to multiple domains?
Once your custom design is completed, you can save it as a Profile, then apply that profile to other domains in your account.
Do you offer a way to help me sell my domains?
Yes. RevenueDirect allows you to include a "For Information About This Domain" link on your domain landing pages. The link goes to a form which allows visitors to contact you directly.
How do I uncover the value of my domains?
The following are some ways to research the value of your domains:
a) Research similar domains listed on aftermarket websites.
b) Purchase a domain appraisal from a reputable company.
Phrase/Keyword Data
WordTracker
Keyword Discovery
Bid Price Data
Yahoo Search Marketing
Domain Ownership - Whois Lookup
Whois.sc
WebHosting.info
Trademark Tools
USPTO Trademark Search Database
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Google Trademark Complaint Procedures
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