PR5, thousands of daily visitors, how can I get some easy $$$?

site is curently parked, but there has to be something better to do...

[Craig_F]

a client has a PR5 domain with hundreds of incomings links that is getting a few thousand vistors per day.

The original site was shut down and won't be coming back so he's parked the site with me. Unless something comes up he is probably just going to let it rot away. I can't stand that, so I was wondering is there anything cheap and easy I could do to keep the site alive and making some $$$?

The trouble is, it needs to be easy for my client to run, something you can set and forget mostly. Someone suggested a Topsites site, which would be fine if it could make money (do they!?), but beyond that I'm at a loss as to what to do here -- any ideas?

[skibum]

Just feed the people that come to the site whatver it is they are looking for. It generally take a fair amount of work to get a site to the point of being able to just sit there and rank in cash though.

[eljefe3]

Was the site shut down for legality reasons, or voluntarily? If voluntarily put up some content that the links pointing to you say the content is about. Then put up some contextual advertising and let the site run on auto pilot.

If the site was shut down for legality reasons, then put up a notification that the site is no longer available, but they can search again using your favorite PPC engine that will pay you the most per click. This is what those domain snatchers do.

[Craig_F]

> Just feed the people that come to the site whatver
> it is they are looking for

that I know, but I was stuggling with that bit since this site was community site that doesn't have a lot of related content that isn't a forum, blog, or something like that. I don't want to get back into community with this site since it need to run on autopilot.

> Was the site shut down for legality reasons, or
> voluntarily?

Voluntary.

> put up some content that the links pointing to you
> say the content is about. Then put up some contextual
> advertising and let the site run on auto pilot

Yup, but what would be best? I want easy and autopilot that can make some profit. The profit doesn't need to be outstanding, but it needs to be there.

I know exactly how to keep the incoming visitors happy content wise, but my normal methods don't work with the "easy" part of this. Every other time I've done something like this I build out another small site, but that takes more effort that I want to give this.

So, that's why I mentioned the Topsites and I'm also interested in the PPC idea since that would be easy too. Any other ideas?

[nick26897]

Have you tried adding AdSense to the site?

[bloke in a box]

Didn't I read somewhere you can park your domain with google and they handle the adsense / ppc type thing themselves? or was that only for sites with millions of uniques?!

[Craig_F]

> Have you tried adding AdSense to the site?

Haven't yet, but plan to put up a placeholder with some adsense on it. There should be some ok $$ there, but only due to traffic volume, I don't think there are many high paying clicks in this area.

[AffiliateDreamer]

bloke in a box,

google does parked domains, but if the site gets 750K monthly traffic (check for exact figures).

[BriGuy20]

For parking, Domain Spa and Sedo are two popular choices. Can't really vouch for their performance, though.

[Oimachi2]

I've got about 10 domains parked on Sedo, made 9 cents this month! Not worth it, Sedo is a scam basically. How unusual on the internet!

It always surprises me how some sites can have a great Alexa ranking, page rank and look totally professional and yet be full of it...