why is my parked domain still getting lots of uniques

[frenchnadine]

WARNING: I realise this might be a total noob question, forgive me, i am new to affiliating.

I purchased several domains last week and parked them all. One of them has had 11 uniques in 4 days (there is no site built on it, its just parked).

Is this alot and how is it getting this traffic?

[Zujo]

Some parking companies count bot traffic - search engine spiders. If you just hand registered the domain this is most likely what happened.

If you bought the domain from a previous owner then it either gets natural traffic (people just type it in looking for whatever the domain name is - instead of using Google) or it used to be a website, in which case people are clicking links to the old site or typing it in looking for it.

The most obvious type of type-in traffic domain is a short generic .com such as sex.com or poker.com - tons of people have no idea what is at those domains but type them in everyday. You'd be surprised some of the 'long tail' domains that get consistent type-in traffic. For instance I own some domains of mental disorders that are 20+ characters long that get at least a couple of type-ins everyday.

Best thing to do is just be happy it is getting traffic (if it is not bot traffic) and optimize the parking page (fabulous.com is best for poker/gaming) and make some money while you sleep