I'm not sure where you've got those figures from.....?
No free forwarding has already been discussed in this thread and they will implement another option in the coming weeks/months. I don't think 2 mins to load on dial-up. It is a bit slow now but they are working on that also.
It all depends on what revenue you like.
If you like mostly low XX cent clicks, with an upper limit on RPC at Sedo - with Sedo taking a substantial portion of your revenue.
Or no upper limit, you get 100% of the revenue at Adsense, YPN or somewhere else (more options coming soon)
I know which option I'm choosing.
Also you need to bear in mind this is a new venture for them. There is plenty that they are working on which will be implemented soon.
They have been listening to us very carefully and taking on board everything we've said and they really are making great progress.
You may need to be a little patient because nothing can be perfect when it's this new but they are working on it, they are listening and we'll be able to see the results over the coming weeks.
Sure, this is true.. Something we realise but, as you can imagine, a little lower down in the list of jobs pending right now. Thx for reminding us though, and it will be done...
Well, if your domains are verified, they are listed on our global domains for sale page with backlinks and "keyword links" to your domains and this page is indexed by the spiders constantly. We're very conscience of cluttering the page/s with too much info.
If you really want to add stuff to your pages, you can manipulate the banner codes, simply use the following bit of code under your 120x600 banner code:
This is because you are using the old style straight parking pages. These will become defunct later this week when the extra news skins are uploaded. You are correct though regarding using overture suggestions as auto searches and what is about to happen (which i thought id explained earlier, perhaps not) is that the overture seach column is about to change into opening a sub page on the site not a search link.
Good question, well with the advent of searches becoming sub pages, why not contact some high paying "adult" advertisers and sign up for their affiliate program/s and use their banners? Once our customising of singular domain/s becomes available this week, place their banner ads on your specific pages. But you are correct though regarding adsense and we dont recommend using the site for adult related domains with adsense ... Hmm does give me an idea though....
Anyway, keep on PM'ing and Suggesting.... We are working very very hard to get this right ..
All I ask is that if your domains are not resolving correctly, please try adding the "/" at the end of your URL...
I will get round to writing the FAQ's on the site, I'll just copy / paste the questions and suggestions from this thread probably..
I have a question - will the news feeds be customisable or do we have to use the one you choose?
Reason I ask is because I just got permission to use the RSS feeds of an alternate source for one of my parked sites.
This is a huge opportunity for the site in question and although I don't have time to develop it myself, I really can't pass on this.
EDIT: It would also be good for the people with adult sites, they can use a more adult news provider.
Or if people want to choose their own news headlines (by writing their own rss feed) to use on their parked sites. I'd probably do that with a few of my high traffic sites.
It would solve a problem I had with my whytoronto.com site. It was showing news about those murders, hardly something I want on a site for people wanting to visit Toronto!
Anyway thanks Badger.
By the way, I can't wait for the new skins etc later in the week. Sounds great.
With regard Adult news feeds, these are not a problem for the site and Im also working on trying to find an adult advertiser that allows multi user sign up, has banners in the same MO as our spaces and has a rotation of same.. If i cannot find these, I might consider developing a completely different page for adult related domains.. But this will take a few weeks and I want to make sure the news mini sites work 100% first and that everyone is happy with them.
Im afraid I dont think I can write into the script customisable feeds. Domains/users/banner codes/keywords/unique visitors/IP addresses - theres only so much a DB can take
I mean the site is a quick and easy way to park up lots of domains, receive revenue almost immediately, get a good looking site, get indexed almost straight away, have multi pages indexed and listed by the search engines and improve your traffic and PR. Theres only so much customising someone should need to do before actually developing themselves... You can now enable URL masking should you choose this method as Romano has done with his www.bestfonts.net and this method has both pros and cons...
Hey Badger, as a small matter of convenience, when you log in...could you have it point to your "Domains" page first?
I just dont see the use in seeing your profile time you log in...just a thought, when you get bored of dealing with all those complicated issues people are pointing out above.
Just a fyi, you might have seen a change to your regular parking pages;
* overture links have moved and now open sub pages instead of auto google searches (this will improve the amount of pages that get indexed)
* The left hand column is now a "popular news" set of links - again to improve the amount of pages indexed and click thrus from your customers.
* You might also recognise one of the banners on the site
The second news skin is also just about ready to show you a very rough draft..
This option is available backend for you to choose, but please dont opt for this yet as there are many bugs and design changes and content yet to be inserted into the pages. Comments also are welcome but we probably realise a lot of them but there's no harm in mentioning them i guess..
My thanks also go out to Prima for his help in our DNS management
The "topics" under "Other Related News" don't catch my eye/grab my attention the way the "topics" under the "News Categories" do. Any way to make them (the "ORN") stand out?
Examples:
Move it/them to above "News Categories"?
Bold them?
Capitalize the first letters of each "topic"?
Make the area or text a different color -- Oops! I mean -- a different colour? (haha.. Sorry, I couldn't resist..)
I'm not too sure about the new look page. Looks like all the custom elements have gone and it's just general news and not much else.
I quite liked the overture links on the left column that were based on the subject of the domain. IMHO the second thing a person looks at (after looking at the top bar) will be that left column.
Seeing a list of general topics on a site about drinking or Toronto (for example) will mean they'll just exit the page because it's obviously not what they're looking for.
I know this is not finished yet, but it appears to be the direction you're moving in (now that the first skin has basically the same setup)
I'd rather overture links in the left column, combine the middle two columns into one wide column with related news (no general news) and then the skyscraper ad in the right column.
I honestly don't think a person looking for a drinking site or Toronto site is gonna want to hang around to read some general news.
It just seems to be as obvious that the site isn't developed as a normal parking page is.
I don't know if anyone else feels that way but that's my 2 cents.
What are the pros and cons? It definitely looks better anyway.
[QUOTE=B33R]I'm not too sure about the new look page. Looks like all the custom elements have gone and it's just general news and not much else.
I quite liked the overture links on the left column that were based on the subject of the domain. IMHO the second thing a person looks at (after looking at the top bar) will be that left column.
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I'll double your 2 cents and agree 100%. Definitely liked and preferred the OVT links in the hot spot at the left page margin. Am missing them.... wanting them.... hoping they come back home soooooon....
One design consideration -- in looking at the new "evening" skin, there is relatively more white space between text, making this layout more readable than the "morning" skin. With more white space/demarcation between text blocks, greater readability; this is a fundamental design truism. Greater readability = easier visual navigation = easier identification of links to click. We like clicks! Too much text and not enough white space can be quite overwhelming on first landing, and discourages further exploration of the page/pages, subsequently reducing clicks.
The design process is like throwing half-cooked pasta at the kitchen cupboards.... see what sticks and is deemed "done." In this case, there appear to be 3,597 cooks in the kitchen. Thassalodda pasta. ;p
"news" = news page rather (look on the customize page for pics of the news pages/old links pages -- I think this is being phased out soon and it'll just be news)
"Custom" = customize the ad code on each page (NEW FEATURE - ADDED TODAY )
"Verified" = you're verified as the owner of the domain - only required if you want to sell
"Featured" = featured on the homepage - rotating with others - one free featured spot per user.
Ok, heres a brief update of the 26 hours of work weve done over the past 24hrs.. (brief he says )
In no particular order..
1. Users can now globally be verified via admin (this negates the requirement to verify your domains by hand). All registered users who have contributed to this thread are now life time "trusted users". For new users, we are allowing a DNOA membership number to act as a "trusted user" VerifYer.
2. As requested, visitors to your site can now opt to "join your mailing list" though we are going to trial this for now and if our server goes into meltdown it might get reviewed.
3. We have added the google alternate ad insertion feature to your admin panel backend (and improved it) - So instead of you having to insert an http link into your adsense code, you can now use a nice smartzone script from CJ.com or tradedoubler e.g. and the site will act as intermediary, decipher it and serve the ads chosen using the script... Confused...?? Well, check out www.WiTv.tv and surf some of the links..
A cool tool, im sure you'll agree..
4. The "latest domains" column on the home page now serves the latest domains rather than the oldest i.e. this is now fixed..
5. Also, as noted above, the global domains list was getting out of hand so this has been sub classified under each domains initial letter.
6. Potential buyers of your domains will get to see the number of unique visitors and total visitors to your sites when they make an enquiry to buy. a la Sedo esque
7. Url masking, as mentioned previously, works fine. The Pros are that your domain will get a higher web presence with certain engines (yahoo in particular) when masked than as a sub page of 1plus.net. Url masking is irrelevant for google however as their indexing spiders are brighter than the average bear and will list your domain regardless. The cons are that maybe not so many sub sub pages of yours will get indexed.
8. A small change to your 'domain name title' is that its now configured to point back to itself. the reason for this is that it helps bring your users back home should they wander through your site and wish to return to whence they came.
9. Meta tags and meta descriptions have been added to all domains and sub pages - though not so if your domain is masked.
10. No movement as yet as to being able to allow users to change nameservers to point to 1plus.net - but we are in discussions with our host right now to get access to the config file needed to activate this.
11. Sub page spaces between keywords now separated by a "+" rather than the underscore (as requested)
12. Default google ads now come in more eyecatching colours - you can obviously place whatever colour ads you require simply by inserting your own code but we felt using brighter colours had more chance of a click.
13. As noticed, individual domains are now fully customisable (sorry customizable).
14. News option (backend) now chosen as the default option.
15. A nice feature has been added backend for multi domain owners enabling them/you to sort their/your domains by column header type - a nice tool when you want to quickly see which ones have most hits e.g.
16. As mentioned previously, clicking the hits/uniques of a domain will show you the IP and date of your visitor/s.
Next up is the fixing of the news page 2. As rightly you say, its not a patch on the 1st one (at the moment) and my intention was to make it a lot better. This will be the case in the end i assure you. We also take on board your disquiet comments regarding moving the overture links and having more generic news in the left hand column - though in mitigation this has been done for 2 reasons : 1. It was against googles t&c's to open auto searches from this column and 2. having fixed, generic news links is better for adsense than serving dynamic pages (i.e. continuously feeding dynamic sub pages will ensure you dont get targetted ads).
All is open for discussion and review however, so post away (if youre still reading this far down)
Thanks much for your efforts. I very much appreciate the opportunity to try out links.com with your service. It should be very interesting to see how this type of page compares to NameDrive and Sedo in terms of visitors, CTR, and visitors.
Since I am still getting my feet wet, could someone briefly explain a couple of things to me?
What is URL masking and where do I apply it? I am using Godaddy and I believe there is an admin function to apply a URL mask.
Thanks for the help.
Regards,
Rich
1) Where in the admin panel does one insert Smartzone script? I assume I would have to apply to CJ.com to get access to this script.
Badger, all those changes sound great! I'm happy to be a trusted user.
richrf, URL masking means disguising where the domain is forwarded to in the address bar of the visitor's browser, and has the same effect on web crawlers or robots for search engines, so they cant distinguish one page on your site from another.
Not on GoDaddy.
As for masking with GoDaddy, here is how to do it:
Login, and under the "Domains" header choose My Domains.
Select the domain you wish to URL forward/mask.
Click the + next to Forwarding on the panel on the right.
Click Click here to see details or to modify.
If you wish to URL mask, check the tickbox, and save changes.
I am pulling out my hair trying to figure out the best combination of keywords for links.com. I tried out "Best Websites". It was O.K from a content point of view. but I think from an advertising point of view, such a generic site does not have too much value. Right now, I am using Online Dating since it has more focused content and I do get a good amount of visitors to links.com that are looking for dating. Ultimately, I am going to develop this site much more, but I am trying to get off to a quick start using 1Plus.net. If anyone has any ideas that they would like to throw out to me, I would love to hear them.
Also, how often does the adsense bot re-visit the page to adjust for new content. I noticed that the Adsense ads stayed the same (e.g. dating) no matter what I changed the content to.
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