iMonetize.com has launched a number of domain services, including a domain parking optimization service that covers most major parking companies.
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you know I’m a fan of TrafficClub. TrafficClub is a domain parking service that automatically optimizes your domains across various parking services such as DomainSponsor, Adsense for Domains, and Skenzo. There’s a new player in the domain optimization space: iMonetize.com. In addition to escrow, auction, and other services, iMonetize offers an optimization service that includes all of the big-name parking services. I recently asked Jerry Nolte of iMonetize about his service.
DNW: First, please tell us about iMonetize: who is behind iMonetize, why was the service created, when it launched, and the key services offered.
Jerry: iMonetize.com is the culmination of several companies coming together and working under one roof, some of the key players are as follows:
-IPNIC.COM an ICANN Accredited registrar
-INTERNET TRAFFIC SIGNAL – Domain Name Monetizers & Domainers
While the base technology has been used and tested for several years, the culmination of the companies didn’t occur until early this year as a Private BETA Site with only a few select larger domain holders testing it for us and our own portfolio. iMonetize actually opened to the public about 6 months ago and actively started advertising about 1 month ago and has been very well received. We are trying to create the 1st truly one stop shop for domainers by offering escrow, auctions, PPC monetization across multiple providers, Sales, Management Page, and the 1st domain theft alert system.
DNW: I’m a big fan of parking optimization services like TrafficClub. Your parking service also auto-optimizes across various parking programs. How does this work?
Jerry: We park with all the major providers over 1 month’s time in a kind of “Round Robin” fashion (split the traffic equally across all providers for 30 days) then after the initial time we look at who makes the most money per day on each domain and point the domain to that service each day from that time on until you or we decide it needs to be re optimized again (if it stops making as much money or if 6 months to a year go by and bids could be different or if we add more PPC providers to “the mix”) and then the whole process start again. With this method on our own portfolio we have seen an over 250% increase as opposed to just sending it to 1 or 2 providers manually. We also have a staff dedicated to making sure your names are pointing to the highest paying keywords/terms on all the providers so it is a fair shake across the board.
DNW: It seems like iMonetize is another middleman between the domainer and advertising provider. The ad network takes a cut, the parking service takes a cut, and now iMonetize takes a cut. How do your parking customers come out ahead? What kind of revenue share can customers expect?
Jerry: We only take a management fee on the PPC of between 5% and 15% but most of our clients see a 50% to as high as 250% increase in earnings using our “per day” technology. This makes our measly fee unimportant. We also negotiate the highest payout possible with each provider, (I mean think about it, unless the PPC providers pay well they don’t get traffic so it is in their best interest to give us a Higher revenue share then most people can get on their own, let alone we are partnered with some PPC providers that the smaller/newer domainers normally wouldn’t even get into).
DNW: You currently have over 10 parking programs in your system. In order to optimize a domain effectively and test it across all of these services, what amount of traffic does the domain need to receive?
Jerry: Obviously the more traffic it receives the better it will perform, but I would say if it gets at least 10 hits a day it should do very well. Less will also do fine but it would need at get at least 10 clicks in one month to optimize fully. And lets be honest, if it isn’t getting at least that much traffic I don’t think it would make much $ anywhere it pointed!
DNW: A lot of domainers prefer not to change the DNS server for their domains and just park by forwarding. Does iMonetize allow this?
Jerry: While we do have a redirect available, we strongly recommend not using it because some of the services we use are DNS based. If you use the redirect instead of the DNS servers you will only hit 1/2 of the providers we offer, hence not fully utilizing the services we offer.
DNW: What additional services is iMonetize planning for the future?
Jerry: We plan on adding “blind” Offers (being able to offer people money for any domain you want without them knowing who is sending the offer), portfolio sales, drop service, and much more.
Every day it seems like a new parking service hits the web. iMonetize appears to be a different company that wants to do more than just park your domains. Look for an unbiased review of iMonetize’s PPC optimization in a future post.
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please let us know which of ur domain ‘r being parked with trafficclub , ThANKs
[email protected] says
>>>> please let us know
>>>> which of ur domain ‘r being parked
>>>> with trafficclub , ThANKs
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[email protected] says
especially please tell us which of ur domains perform best with the trafficclub
bythway ,
does trafficclub provide any 1-click’s page as that of sedo ????
ThANKs
Editor says
TrafficClub accepts all domains from all countries, so just try a handful. Or try a handful at iMonetize. You’ll be able to quickly figure out which ones perform better a different parking companies.
TrafficClub has one page landers from Google Adsense; the others are mostly 2-click.