VOODOO.com

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Ok, so we know how popular our Official Parked.com thread was...let's give @Donny's newest genius invention a try: VOODOO.COM
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Let us know what you think!

 

[ngenme]

Donny, bodis.com can convert chinese visitors but cannot convert chinese adult visitors. So can voodoo does that?

Also with permission bodis allow 302 redirection to ww1.domainname.com which points to bodis address. Does voodoo.com allow that?

And about parked.com I think I'll just pm.

 

[Donny]

Yes we do support Chinese traffic, but not adult chinese traffic. Adult traffic is China is banned by China, not by our upstreadm provider.

Yes, we allow a 302 redirect as well.

Donny

 

[Blue24]

Any samples of parked domains?

 

[nielsencl]

Unpaid / Unsolicited Review of VooDoo.com

After finding this thread and reading most of it I decided to try VooDoo.com on 11/17/11. Clearly I have not been with them long, but wanted to provide some information based on what I have seen so far. I wanted to try them because the parking provider I have been very happy with for several years uses a Yahoo feed, and while results have been up and down, they have gotten really bad lately.

- It's a new service so there are things you may find missing or not completed, but the control panel works well, domains import quickly and are easy to direct your domain to them with NS changes and other options.

- Support has not been overly warm and friendly, but it has been professional and very responsive. If you are not a newbie or a jerk you should be happy with their support.

- A few things may be a little confusing, but for the most part it all makes sense and doesn't take too much work to get a domain set up, especially if you already have the data like title, description, and keyword(s).

- Template options seem to be limited, but I think this is due to Google and not VooDoo. Selecting the type of lander for things like 1 or two click is awesome as my current provider runs about 98% 2-click, while the few 1-click landers almost always do much better.

- A folder option allows you to get or stay organized, and you can see the SE status of your domain in the account, although it is not on any reports yet that I saw, and I don't think you can move by status which would be nice.

- Domain and folder stats are provided with an expected delay of 1-2 days for the numbers to show up.


So why I am close to pulling my domains from VooDoo?

I initially moved domains to VooDoo that were getting a lot of traffic but that I could not seem to get optimized properly. When I had an AdSense account (don't get me started) I moved these types of domains to AdSense For Domains and was happy to start getting some revenue, sometimes good revenue from these domains.

The first domains I moved to VooDoo didn't show much traffic and didn't earn anything. Then when I poked around I found the status of almost all these domains was "FailListed" which means banned or rejected by Google for some reason.

To remove this aspect of my testing, I then took about 12 of my current top-earning domains and moved them to VooDoo. I set them up pretty much the same as they were with my other provider and made sure the keywords or ads that were showing were appropriate. The status of most of these domains was shown as "clear", which means the SE approves of them.

While it has been over the Thanksgiving holiday, the results have been disappointing so far. The stats show very, very low numbers for visitors, no searches, and of course no clicks.

Disturbingly, the visitor or unique user numbers are far, far less that I had been seeing before. Are they being under-reported at VooDoo? Is my current provider showing me junk like bot traffic? I just don't know.

I'm going to give it another day or two and will update this review if things pick up. The problem for me is that now that my best performing domains are not with the previous provider, my income there has dropped to almost nothing. By best day there this month was $31.25 but since I most the domains my total has been about $11 or less than $2 a day.

Summary: I think VooDoo deserves a try but keep in mind your mileage may vary. If the revenue was there I was prepared to move all or most of my 1,000 domains to them. I may still try moving additional domains that have a "clean" status to VooDoo and see if I can't get them to make some money if they are not doing that currently. I prefer a Google Feed and I really like VooDoo, but I need to keep earning something from these damn domains.

And it is common for the same domain to perform much differently at different providers. You should move your domains to different providers and do some testing until they work the way you expect them to.

 

[ibidu]

nielsencl

That was a thorough description, but in general I found it's a big mistake to move a high earning domain to another parking company. It's best not to be greedy and I've paid dearly for my mistake.

 

[nielsencl]

ibidu

Thanks, but of course it wasn't greed at all, but scientific curiosity that prompted me to do that. If earning domains as well as non-earning domains don't earn with a provider, then it may not be where you want to park.

 

[ibidu]

nielsencl

Okay mate if it was "scientific curiosity" as opposed to just "plain curiosity" then you were right to have tried it. Having said that, speaking personally, if I had "no curiosity" at all I'd be a very well off man w/o needing to bother about domains or domains parking anyway

 

[Donny]

This will be a response to nielsencl. Thanks for the write up.

So you are saying that I'm not a warm person? Damn.

I won't publically post anything about your domains, so I'll send you a PM on what your domains are doing.

But one thing that happens when somebody moves their domains from a Yahoo feed to a Google feed, with Google they don't allow most bots, because the domains are generated via javascript, as Yahoo's domains are all html. So in most cases you will have more traffic via a Yahoo provider than a Google provider because of this.

But I'll send more information on this in a PM.

We do still have a ways to go to get everything exactly how we would like it. But it's getting there one day at a time.

Donny

 

[munny]

So donny are you going to do yahoo feed soon? If it brings more traffic then wouldnt that be better?

 

[Donny]

Munny - This is a different issue than what nielsencl was talking about. Traffic does not always equal money. In some cases it does, but not all. Every provider counts things differently.

And no I do not plan on getting a Yahoo feed.

Donny

 

[nielsencl]

Donny did send me a nice PM (and yes it was warm...) and explained from his perspective why traffic from spiders and bots are not showing up in my account at VooDoo. I can recommend that others try VooDoo.com since they are doing so many things right. But it just doesn't seem to be working for me.

 

[ebatcave]

Let me give a brief perspective on Voodoo. I have over 5,000 domains that are parked so I can speak with a little authority . I have been doing spot checking on VooDoo and for the most part, I'm very happy with the results. I am using the Generic Blue as the landing page and that has resulted in very high click thru rates. There are some instances where some of the domains do better on NameDrive, DomainSponsor or Bodis for unknown reasons (since they are all Google feed providers, except DS does both), and after testing some went back to those providers, but on about 60-70% of the domains I've moved to VooDoo, they are there to stay. I'm looking forward to ongoing enhancements that Donny will undoubtedly add over time, but for now, I'm very pleased with having another parking alternative that on some domains substantially increases CTR.

 

[oraclegold]

No paypal fees!

Got payment for Nov without deduction of paypal fees. Great that my concern is immediately taken care.

 

[Donny]

oraclegold - Send me your information via PM. And I'll see what I can do.

Donny

 

[ngenme]

I'll start splitting traffic between voodoo and bodis. Both of you only count unique clicks right? So splitting traffic should improve earning I suppose.

too bad google cannot monetize adult domains. Even though their competitors like baidu and sogou can. They simply don't display adult ads. Oh well.

I will never buy adult domains again. Now let's see how voodoo compared to bodis.

 

[Donny]

Technically adult domains are against the law in China. That is why Google doesn't show any ads at all.

We count based on uniques.

Donny

 

[ngenme]

Donny I used several chinese proxy to look how domains parked at voodoo looks like in China. Ads do NOT show up.

Domains are not adult. Can you check?

 

[Donny]

teguh123 - PM me the domains, because China is turned on based on the customer.

Donny

 

[ngenme]

Oh okay. I will pm you soon. So it's not automatically on.

 

[Donny]

Oh okay. I will pm you soon. So it's not automatically on.

Based on the recommendation of our upstream provider, we turn it on for certain people.

Donny

 

[ibidu]

Based on the ......, we turn it on for certain people.

Donny

Lucky certain people

 

[WORDSWORTH]

Well I've been with Voodoo for a month now and I'm impressed.

I like the landers and the customization options.

I like the Dashboard and Reporting which are easy to use and very comprehensive.

But most of all, I like the revenue! Some of my domains that were marginal at best at other parking companies might actually turn a profit here to help fund renewals. It all helps.
CTR is still down on Sedo but I have much more optimization to do so I'm confident it can be improved. RPC is higher though (currently at $0.17) which is more than I was getting at Sedo. Still have lots of keywords to input so I'm confident this can be improved too.

I'd thoroughly recommend you try Voodoo if you haven't already.

 

[munny]

Any payment proof? I mean large amounts? Or do we get banned after hitting it big

 

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Payment is flawless @ Voodoo!
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Happy Holidays and HIGH RPC's to ALL! :santa:

 

[sylvana123]

should we prepare 10 domains to sign up like parked?