weather related domain monetization problem

[simon]

Hi I have a weather related domain and i parked it in namedrive but the CTR was very low (under 2%) then i moved it to parked where i am getting like 3.5% CTR.
The domain is getting like 400 uniques a day but not been able to monetize properly.

If anyone of you have any idea, i would really appreciate it.
Thanks
Simon

 

[droplister]

is it weather related to a specific area, is it weather and news related? would you be better off with a minisite. weather.com magnet/news/ads/etc

 

[Focus]

car insurance ads or credit card..you only need one click a day

 

[droplister]

"monetize properly" I wouldnt consider that monetizing it properly, thats just hoping youll get some clicks now and then. If more and more people put unrelated ads on domains and websites, advertisers are going to pay less and less for the untargetted traffic your sending them

 

[simon]

for this particular case, the people are looking for the content of
weather.com

any ideas?

 

[droplister]

they have a "weather magnet" you could put on a site with an adsense ad next to it http://www.weather.com/services/oap.html?from=footer

 

[simon]

thanks for the info Dan.

 

[hugegrowth]

If the people are looking for the content of a specific site then the CTR will probably always be low because when they get to the page they see they have made a mistake and will click away. Your best bet is to have a minisite like what was suggested, with a feed of weather news/forecasts, maybe a general article on a general weather related topic, and some adsense. Also some eye catching photos of weather related subjects might keep people lingering on the page longer - instead of clicking away immediately - storm photos, etc.

 

[fatter]

Fabulous has a decent parked page for weather the pay per click isnt much 3-10 cents you can see the landing page at r a i n d a t e . c o m I actually did better with a dating landing page, might be worth a try