Montetizing an expired traffic domain

[Lauren]

I picked up a domain that's getting about 194 uniques a week, but parking was resulting in terrible conversion on clicks, so I decided to redirect traffic to a lucrative affiliate program I belong to. (Very excellent conversion for adult traffic.)

My question is how to go about redirecting this traffic in smartest way. I don't have time to make a site right now, but I want to capitalize on the traffic.

I originally wanted to do it at the registrar level, using a URL redirect, but the registrar's system won't accept it because it doesn't like the syntax. (It's Enom and they want it it be "http://www...." and not "http://cc.yaddayadda.cgi".

So instead I changed the name servers to one of my hosting accounts and created a blank index.html with just a meta refresh (containing my affiliate code in the url) to the actual site.

Is this the best way to go about this?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Lauren

 

[Biggie]

Hi Lauren

Welcome to DNForum.com

You seem to have it under control.........considering the limits of the time constraints......which is a factor in your return$

Were you to invest more time, then return$ should increase!

You've covered most areas of "exploitation" that a domain can receive.......except "make a site".

Good Luck

 

[mike031]

you should of simply setup the dns settings at enom to point to wherever it is you want the domain redirecting the traffic to.

there is 3 default records under each domain....

www
@ (none)
* (other)

the "address" would be the url of your affiliate.

 

[Lauren]

you should of simply setup the dns settings at enom to point to wherever it is you want the domain redirecting the traffic to.

there is 3 default records under each domain....

www
@ (none)
* (other)

the "address" would be the url of your affiliate.

Hi mike031,

Yes, I tried that first and it is my preferred method. But, the system didn't like the syntax of the url (my affiliate code url is http://cc.lotsofsuffhere.cgi). An error message came back saying the format needed to be "http://www".

So, the way I ended up doing it was actually my second choice. I just wasn't sure if there was a better way or if I had basically thought of all the angles!

Lauren

 

[mike031]

Hi mike031,

Yes, I tried that first and it is my preferred method. But, the system didn't like the syntax of the url (my affiliate code url is http://cc.lotsofsuffhere.cgi). An error message came back saying the format needed to be "http://www".

So, the way I ended up doing it was actually my second choice. I just wasn't sure if there was a better way or if I had basically thought of all the angles!

Lauren

you need to setup "url redirect" under the record type

 

[Lauren]

you need to setup "url redirect" under the record type

I guess I must not be saying it right. I did set up my affiliate url in the "address" box under hostname "www" and "@ (none)" and selected "record type" to be "URL redirect". But Enom did not like the fact that my affiliate url started with http://cc. instead of http://www. So "no go".

Thanks for trying to help!

 

[mike031]

I guess I must not be saying it right. I did set up my affiliate url in the "address" box under hostname "www" and "@ (none)" and selected "record type" to be "URL redirect". But Enom did not like the fact that my affiliate url started with http://cc. instead of http://www. So "no go".

Thanks for trying to help!

enom doesn't care where you are forwarding... it can be http://dsfkjdsf.dsfkjsdkfjdsf.dfkjdsfkj.com/dsfjdf.fkdjfkj

you are doing something wrong :blush:

 

[Lauren]

enom doesn't care where you are forwarding... it can be http://dsfkjdsf.dsfkjsdkfjdsf.dfkjdsfkj.com/dsfjdf.fkdjfkj

you are doing something wrong :blush:

Ok, thanks for that. I'll give it a go again and if I can't do it, I'll get with Enom.

My site's starting to propogate and the refresh solution isn't so refreshing. (Taking a looooong time to move even though I set the time to zero).

Sigh.

Thanks again, Mike.

Lauren

 

[mike031]

good thinking.. i'd get in touch with enom and sort it out as well... should be working 100%

you can frame the redirect... the meta refresh still works but there are better ways people use.

<html>
<head>

<frameset rows="100%,*" frameborder="no" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="http://url">
</frameset>

<noframes>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<a href="http://url">click here to enter url</a>
</body>
</noframes>
</html>

 

[Lauren]

good thinking.. i'd get in touch with enom and sort it out as well... should be working 100%

you can frame the redirect... the meta refresh still works but there are better ways people use.

Thanks very much for the code!!

I'll use that now and I also put a ticket in with enom for the answer to the redirect prob.

Lauren