Review on Domain Embarking

I had read about domain parking and embarking on another site and decided to give that a try.

To simplify, DomainEmbarking.is taking a registering with a parking service and forgetting about it.  You set the keywords that should be targeted and the service populates the site with ads and maybe some graphics of some sort.  You are mainly relying on people to get to the site, realize that what they want isn’t there and then click an ad to leave. 

The first place I tried parking was on Go Daddy itself, now they have a nice domain management interface and bells and whistles and I do like them very much.  The domain parking costs 4 dollars a month for the privilege of parking unlimited sites, which I guess in retrospect should’ve been a red flag for me since they are also taking a percentage of the per click earnings as well.  Now after about 3 weeks with them my 13 domains {this is one domain} got a total of 9 visits and 0 clicks.  To say the least I was disgusted and moved my domains.

After Go Daddy I moved my domains to a company called DomainEmbarking.  Now these guys are a bit different in that they just don’t put ads on your page, they actually build a 5 page website using your target keywords as a guide.  A nice feature with these guys is that you have ad blocks on each page that you can populate with your own ads and banners and keep all the income from them.  However, a site called DomainEmbarking. is trying to revolutionize the way domains are parked.

Through their user-friendly dashboard, you can add your Domains (which may be registered elsewhere) and fill out 3 fields regarding keywords you’d like to target and the title. There’s a useful tool that tells you what the top searched keywords are for that title so you can modify your title to include them. There’s also a preview tool so you know what your site will look like beforehand.

Their content-generating tool automatically generates several pages worth of content for you with news clips, photos, a paragraph from Quite an innovative idea. Apparently search engines index these sites and visitors have been reported to bookmark them.

So compared to the old “spam sites” created by companies like Sedo, you get actual sites that people enjoy visiting. And if you’d like to spend more than the 60 seconds it takes to fill out the keyword and title details, you can go in advanced options and tweak some more fields and maybe add a paragraph of your own text.

Even their revenue share model is quite interesting. They keep 50% of the ad revenue and the members get the other 50%. Members earn Premiere Shares, which entitle you to a certain % of the profits. You get additional shares for each site you “embark” with them. According to their site, 1 Premiere Share entitled members to $15.11 during the last quarterly distribution. You also get Premiere Shares for referring new clients and their since service is free so you might as well get cracking

DomainEmbarking.., I had to try it out. Opening an account took 1 minute and then I added my domain Parked at Sedo, it was generating $0, it had no traffic and wasn’t even indexed. If you see the image, you’ll understand why. Lots of irrelevant ads

Now in my research I came upon many parking sites, each offering different bells and whistles.  Most had some sort of requirement that excluded me, whether it was number of domains or domain quality, so I can’t comment on them.

From reading up on SEO I understand that it can take up to 3 months for a domain to get indexed and finally be found by so that may explain why name drive is doing better than the other two services.  As I write this I am moving two domains to each of the other services to test them out again…

Total earnings in January for 13 parked sites was a bit over two dollars.  Keep in mind that each domain needs to make at least one dollar per month to pay for itself, so I lost money and need to work on this