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The scale is 0 lowest to 10 highest. It's an authority scale assigned by Google.
People sometime search particular terms to see what page their site is listed (ranked) on Google. For instance if you search whypark, my blog is on the bottom of the second page (moved up from the ninth page from one month ago)
Thanks for sharing your WP tips. I hope you find this one useful.
Cheers
ps. I posted to this thread a while back, but my Namepros account was unexpectedly disabled. Sorry about being unable to respond. The issue with my account seems to be resolved.
Just a quick correction - Google Ranking and Google Page Ranking are two entirely different things. Google Ranking is where your site ranks when someone does a particular search term. Google Pagerank is a number assigned to a page that indicates a number of things, most prominent of which is how many legitimate (and not spammy) backlinks it has (as a symbol of trust and authority) The system is going down for maintenance now, so I have to end this, but you can go into Wikipedia and find a discussion on Pagerank. It's entirely possible to have a page with zero or low PR and have it rank #1 for some terms; it's also possible (but rare) for a high PR page not to rank highly at all, specially if it's being penalized or filtered for some reason.
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Since you have many telepresence domains, you might might try different Amazon widgets and see what works best.
I'd also suggest trying different search terms in the one you are using on "Go Telepresence." I entered "videophone," and it returned a list a 32 items. To me, this seems more inviting to scroll through than the 151 items returned by "video conferencing."
I think (when I think that's dangerous) that even if a user searches the Amazon widget for say "videophones" like you did, or maybe "laptop computer", if that person bought something there I would still receive the "referral fee"? If that's a true statement, it might not be a bad thing to say leave it relevant with "video conferencing", and let the visitor search?
I cut the articles down a bit - hoping with a little less relevant info and content on the sites, visitors may find and use the Ads easier....
We'll track the changes (and conversions) over the next month now that I have a decent baseline and I'll post on what we find.
Here's the bottom line changes to the "stock" Whypark template just for this domain - Go Telepresence
1). Adsense "text link" only block added to left side articles
2). Adsense "text and image" block added to top center
3). Adsense "text and image" block added to bottom center
3). "Advertise Here" banner added to top center
4). "Go Telepresence" banner added to top center
5). "yourminis" widget RSS feed added to left articles
6). Amazon sale widget added to left articles
7). Telepresence Today "Whypark text link" added to left articles
8). Google "custom search" added to both top and bottom Adsense "text and image" blocks
9). "Telepresence Forum" banner added to center
10). Four custom article pages added to Whypark center - including "Domain for Sale" page, two "Commentary" pages and a "Direct to Forum" page.
That's about it for now....
I'm gonna’ leave it alone and let it work. I sent a half dozen "website reviewers" over to the domain, and none of them could tell it was a "parked" domain.... and that's exactly what I wanted.
Thanks for all the feedback and pointers folks (there are many!) - You all helped me get it right to where I wanted it - tweaking the other 300+ domains will be a cinch now.
When I started this thread, I was excited about the possibilities with Whypark vs Sedo, Parked, NameDrive and others. I can honestly say now that I've gone through some of the growing pains of "parked" domains - my original excitement hasn't been tempered. In fact, I'm more excited now then before. I see the results. I see the money. I see the return.
Smart move L2. I don't have enough data to make educated recommendations about which Amazon widgets work best on which WP sites. Your ideas are at least as good as mine, and probably better. We both need baseline info.
Along these lines, we might want to think about the indirect effects of widget selection. For instance, a widget with an attractive display might promote longer visits and more clicks on other ads, even if visitors don't click on that widget itself.
I spent some time checking out Google Lively today. This is a new program that allows you to create shared 3D spaces and embed them in your web sites. Google provides a catalog of avatars and objects to inhabit and accessorize your spaces. Among the the objects you can place in your 3D spaces are picture and (YouTube) video viewers.
I have a WP site with photography content. And, my initial thought was that it would be neat to provide visitors with a 3D space containing interesting photos. So I created a space and dropped in some photo frame gadgets from the Lively Catalog. The gadgets were able to display photos hosted by ImageShack. However, when I placed the photo frames where I wanted them in my space, the picture images were rather small and unimpressive. Not the photo gallery experience I was hoping for. Perhaps the 3D space template I was using (an island) wasn't optimal for my purposes.
While my 3D photo gallery is still a work in progress, there is another approach for using Google Lively with WP sites. Simply select an appropriate popular public room and embed it in your WP layout. As Lively users move around, chat, and change the objects in the room, they'll make your WP site more engaging.
Here's my WhyPark photography site with an embedded Lively room:
I tried it suonim but I must not have enough memory - only runnin' 4M of RAM. Looks pretty cool and it sure is dynamic!
I'm debating the issue(s) of having too many widgets and "things to do" on my WP sites.... Kind of a fine line between too much, being relevant and useful, and having a "parked" site that makes some loot. I presently use the parked sites to drive their traffic to my Forum or News site where they hopefully become members, or at least snoop around and perform an "action". Maybe make a post, maybe click something, maybe bookmark it, etc. So far it's beyond my best-case scenario...
I'll keep you posted as to what new widgets and gadgets I find, and I'll also report on how my traffic converts over the next month or so. If this last week and today are indicators - it's off and runnin'. Record day today, record week.
Hey Suonim, that's a pretty cool chatbox you have there....
DaDomains - Really good! Really, really good! I use the same Analytics and Adsense code for all 300+ parked domains so I can't break them out, but overall they're way way up.
BTW, I think that domain I bought from you jinxed my wife, heehee - Right after I bought it, they went bankrupt.... I haven't done anything with it yet (maybe I need to - to make up for her pay cut) LOL
Alan, talk about handy - I was on your site studystocks.com and saw all the red in the widget - which I then looked up Wall Street News to see why.... Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are getting hammered - BAD! Not good, not good at all. Google down presently too - Ouch!
I actually "paid" a well known Domaineer $5 (he owed me a favor) yesterday and he reviewed a couple of my sites - a couple I have at Whypark too. He had some amazing constructive criticism for me (which I didn't mind at all). I thought it might help others here so I'll post his findings.
First off - Alan, you were right. I mentioned I thought Whypark should have their "Sponsored" ads stand out from the site theme (color) so people may "see" them and you replied that there were no plans to alter colors of the sponsored ads. The Whypark Feed Ads are the same exact color as the "theme. "Mr. Domaineer" agreed 150% with that saying that users tend TO NOT click ads that stand out. He cited a dozen references. And I guess after I thought about it long enough, I do the same thing. Too many "stand out" ads tend to blind me and I ignore them without even thinking about it.
So that's the first thing I changed - I integrated my Adsense blocks to the same font and color as the Whypark theme.
His second point was he thought my Go Telepresence site was too busy - the Amazon widget surely wouldn't make much if anything, and that it was taking away from a users experience. He also said the banners up top were "annoying & useless". LOL. He liked the RSS Feed, but hated the Amazon widget and my airline banner. All that work down in flames.... He said I need one picture related to Telepresence on the main page as a minimum.
So I integrated two (for now) articles into all my "code blocks" on Whypark, and did away with one banner - dropping the rest below the bottom code block. The top two page articles (center) are actually coded into the code blocks, not separate article pages. Took awhile to get the code and spacing right so it appears seamless - but doable. I'll work on getting a relevant picture on the sites later today.
Probably the biggest statement (recurrent) he made was that we're in this to make money. Any money. Ad money, domain sale money, referral money, etc. He said If I use that as my "pointer", it's easier to get by any ego, or what I might "think" about widgets, gadgets, ads and the rest. Said to remind myself - "if I only had one visitor to my site, if I add this, will it generate a money making action, or will it take it away?
Follow the money. Just like his $5 he reminded me to Paypal him LOL - it's about the money.
hahaha
Whypark.... Conversions 
