A couple of weeks ago Stephen Douglas from WhyPark commented about some good news coming later this month and boy was he right!  WhyPark announced yesterday that the service they used to charge $99 for is now FREE!  This is great news and the buzz is growing among domainers. 

Now, there is no excuse to not try WhyPark if you’ve been considering it.  I’m moving the remainder of my domain portfolio to WhyPark from Sedo because I’ve already seen what WhyPark can do with my first 100 domains. 

While there is no catch, there are some things you should know.  Yes, you can get the free standard service now which in itself is very good, but there are other services they offer which can be a boon to really monetizing your portfolio but those are not free.

Here’s a rough breakdown of the add-on services:

$10/mo     Enhanced plan for all your sites

+ Premium Templates
+ 10 MB Image Hosting
+ RSS Feed Integration
+ Emailed Stats
+ Social Bookmarks
+ 5% Discount on Services
+ Premium Content
+ Comments in Articles

$25/mo     Managed plan for all your sites (I use this one and am very happy with it)

+ Premium Templates
+ 100 MB Image Hosting
+ RSS Feed Integration
+ Emailed Stats
+ Social Bookmarks
+ 15% Discount on Services
+ More Premium Content
+ Comments in Articles
+ RSS Feed Publication
+ Automated Newsletters

Also, for a fee WhyPark can help with traffic building by:

- promoting your sites in various sites and blog directories.

- content development and syndication (WhyPark will research, write, and syndicate articles for you)

- RSS Feed Submissions (if you are using WhyPark’s add-on Managed service plan which allows you to have RSS feeds on your sites, you can pay a small fee to have the RSS Feeds from your site submitted to feed directories.

Of course, you can save yourself some money and do all the above yourself if you’ve got the time. I know I don’t have that kind of time so I’m going to try out a few of my domains using WhyPark’s Directory Submissions and Blog Placement services and will report back in a month or so on how the link building and traffic turns out.