Badger, on the hits page for each domain, where it lists the unique IPs that have visited...would it be possible to show how many times each user has visited?
My one domain Critics.TV has received 1722 hits but only 14 uniques - that's ridiculous...
I'm sure someone is just sitting at these pages and refreshing them. Another (Blookery.Info) has had 734 but only 5 uniques in one day.
These type of figures normally indicate Spider or bot traffic, ie a script has run through your site, which normally registers as a low number of unique visitors but will "hit" the page a large number of times (impressions).
1. No Bill, it isn't, and the domains ive checked do show the house code so I must have another bug there, so i'll address that..
2. Difficult one that.. Google indexes differently to all the other bots and Ive noticed its latest algorythm tends to index the root domain rather than the destination address, so it doesnt matter which option you choose for google. The other crawlers (Yahoo in particular) still index the destination address so masking it would improve your listing. Up to you, no probs either way for us.
One point of note, if you do use Url masking or "Url Frame" obviously you have control of the meta tags on the page, meta descriptions and page title. These are written for you automatically right now (when you dont use url masking) so you will need to hand write these at your host..
Thanks for all your help in getting me set up the other day. I know it's been mentioned before, but the site is great and getting better everyday. Thanks for all the hard work (Badger, et al) & for the quick responsiveness to suggestions and problems.
No sweat... Thanks for all your kind words and support, really appreciated..
Keep getting asked the same kinds of questions, so let me just recap...
A, Alternate ads when no google ads available..
Obviously with the unlimited number of sub pages each of your sites has/have now, the adsense bot is going to do very well keeping up with all these 0000's of pages and producing relevant ads each and every time. We have made it easier for the adsense bot by maintaining a constant theme and manipulating the text it reads over the dynamic content each of your pages have. However, despite our help, it is never going to be able to keep up with all your pages so 2 points:
1. Please be patient if your new site doesnt yet produce the correct ads, when the adsense bot comes by, it will produce ads based solely on your main KW. Each time you change the main KW, you have to wait until the bot comes by again before it changes the ads.
2. An alternate ad feature is soon going to come into play.. I already have it installed with my domains - and what this does, is everytime google cant serve relevant ads, it serves an url of the users choice. As ever, my url of choice is a dynamic url based upon a script run by cj.com (using their smart zone settings). For the unenlightened, cj.com smartzone allows users to browse advertisers (of which there are thousands) and take the codes of any nice banners and place into a "Smart Zone", once finished filling your smartzone with banners, you grab the code and place onto your site (in our case your 1plus page). Cj.com then rotate the banners according to how youve "weighted" them or completely at random. Your pages at 1plus are never empty. You can, on the other hand, write any code or url as an alternate ad.
B. I get asked a lot about the old parking pages and users being able to advertise their other domains for sale on the new news style pages.
Were really conscience of the page being too cluttered, however, if a user clicks on the "this domain/s for sale" box on your page, the user will see the number of hits, the number of uniques to your page and soon your "other domains for sale"...
If youre still hell bent on placing links to other places on your pages well, this is fine, but you'll have to use the following code under the vertical column adsense code...
And repeat the code for each and every link you wish to include..
Anyway, were working on the news page 2 right now so post or comment as usual..
And finally, as a site of only a few weeks old, its nice to see so many of your domains and sub domains indexed http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?f...ite%3a1plus.net . Remember the new google algorithym indexes the root domain so check out your own domain rather than 1plus when checking this out using google i.e. "site:ive-Been-injured.com" in the google search bar..
By way of some feedback which you may find helpful for your future designs:
I tried out your parking page for www.links.com but went back to my customized NameDrive page because of a severe drop in the CTR. The page went from 16% to a little over 2% with a corresponding drop in revenue. It is difficult to say exactly the reasons for this significant drop but my guess is:
1) The 1Park.net page is too cluttered and the relevent ads are too small and not placed in noticeable spots.
2) The RSS feeds were not very interesting. I tried various keywords and the news was on the whole not very enticing. The simple stats on my current page apparently are more enticing than the news feeds (go figure).
3) Load times are noticeable slower and therefore may discourage visitors from staying.
As I was saying, this is just a guess and may only pertain to my links.com. Others with more specific domain names may fair better. In any case, I will keep watching and will continue to experiment with other landing pages that you may develop since I think you have a great concept.
With a name like that, I'd expect it to do better on ND or somewhere where it's just ads. After all the visitors are looking for links. 1plus is moving in totally the other direction.
It does actually work better with domains like mine (see sig for examples) where people are looking for sites rather than ads. In fact, I made more from clicks yesterday than I made at ND in 2 whole months.
Maybe just a good day but I'm happier that my visitors are seeing something that resembles a website rather than a page of ads. Who knows maybe they'll come back if they know there's actually something there...
I'm gonna try custom ads soon, I just set up every site with custom Adsense codes and that seems to have worked, now I just have to wait until Easter's over to get accepted into some affiliate programs.
On load times: Definitely a huge improvement there. That was one of my main concerns but it's much faster now - nice one Badger!
Most domains have no pr, no real type in potential and very little click thru when parked - Links.com clearly is not in this bracket.
What 1plus does for domains is improve index rating, gets multiple pages indexed by the spiders and (as is currently an average on 6 page views per visit) have a much greater chance of an ad being clicked.. Visits also improve significantly, but all this requires a little bit of patience.
We cant offer quick fix solutions for domains which currently dont have a web presence. Its what you might call a longer term approach. Parking programs such as namedrive (who are a pretty good provider) can provide a nice parking page and higher revenue % click thru - but not longer term... I guarantee you of this.. If you have a domain at any parking provider, you have a single page, thats it...And, for resale, your value is only in the name..
At 1plus, you have the control, and over time, you will have many many pages indexed and therefore by default you will get more people finding your domains through the SE..
Links.com clearly needs no introduction or help by us and it was a pleasure helping you for the brief period of time you were with us. Incidentally Rich, if you want me to help you build your own search engine with such a cool domain just say the word..
Hope youve all had a good Easter, I had a day off today and shot a sweeeet 73 (net 68) at my local links "Easter Cup" tournament, so everything is cool in my camp..
I have two questions about Godaddy.com domain forwarding and masking, with regard to Google Adsense channel management.
1) When I simply forward (WITHOUT masking) a Godaddy parked domain to 1plus.net, which URL do I enter in Google Adsense channels manager:
1plus.net/mydomain.com/
or
1plus.net/mydomain.com (no "/" at the end)
2) When I have forwarded WITH masking from Godaddy, what is the domain URL I enter in my Google Adsense channel -- the same as without masking, or would it be:
You need to bear in mind URLs like this - http://1plus.net/?news=golf.sc&term=golf+supplies
will not get added to your Adsense URL channel. I don't think there's anything in 1plus that makes those URLs but I have had a few posted on this thread so my Adsense totals got screwed.
You can use those URLs to change the news on your domain if you want to check different words out for example. So long as you don't use them, your URL channel will count impressions/clicks just fine.
I found it's better to use a custom channel on every domain although manually entering Adsense codes for all your domains is quite time consuming.
Alternate Ad code customization now tested and installed for all users...
For those who havent read above, all users may now enter an alternate (similar size please) banner code from any provider (cj.com, tradedoubler etc - basically any ad provider) and the site will decrypt the code, save it into a format that adsense will recognise and display alternate ads when adsense hasnt/doesnt have any relevant ads to serve... Using this feature means you will never see unrelated ads or blank spaces ever again on your pages...
if you use CJ.com they have a smartzone area where you can display a multitude of different advertisers on rotation..
Code insertion available on your customize park page...
Comments and thoughts appreciated.... And as you can see Alan has used the Leaderboard size adsense for his horizontal banner and this works fine with the wider page...
Thomas, Im sure you know this anyway, but you can have your bet fred ads running automatically when adsense cant deliver (by entering the code in the alternate code box). But as ever, the choice is yours.. Personally i wouldnt run two identical ads on the same page for this is a little restrictive but whatever blows your hair back
I tried parking my newly registered pages...but i continue to get error messages...I contacted ISB WEB Pro, but they told me that everything was in order on their end...can somebody help me , or if anybody else has any experience with ISB web Pro, can you tell me where I'm going wrong?
THanks
Given that 1plus provides a new species of web site publishing/parking --- are these mini-sites considered web sites, or parked domains? I'm thinking forward in terms of selling; would it be legit to list one's domain say, on Sedo, as a *web site* as opposed to 'just' a domain name? It seems to me that, with the current features and anticipated future features, these mini-sites are/will be so customizable as to plant them squarely in the realm of web sites (as opposed to an out-of-the-can parking page). What are all of you thinking in this regard?
Secondly, if indeed this new format transitions to recognition as a bona fide web site -- could there be some consideration given to adding a "sales/transfer" feature so that a buyer could, if they so choose, seamlessly assume ownership and transfer to their own 1plus account without losing established 1plus traffic history? (Or does that already happen?)
I tried parking but...