PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[ZOX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[GILSAN]

studentsloan.in here in australia is 1 page..Most of the traffic however is Indian and I am unsure if it is a 1 page lander in India as well...

It's a 2 page lander here in Portugal.

GIL

 

[bradskid]

Can someone shed some more light on this quality score. Is it calculated by each individual domain or by your entire profile of domains and then you are just given a "blanket quality" score? If this is the case, I need to move about 800-1000 domains away from parked because I simply don't have the time to optimize them and I have a feeling they could be hurting my quality score. My CTR is at about 10% right now for my entire portfolio, but of the 1500 domains I have at parked only about 30-40 actually have added content. Should I just take down all my domains without content in hopes that my CTR will go up and park them somewhere else in the meantime until i have time to optimize them and add content?

 

[copper]

studentsloan.in here in australia is 1 page..Most of the traffic however is Indian and I am unsure if it is a 1 page lander in India as well...

I checked your contents.
You have many link to wikipedia.
You will lose visitors every time those visitors click on those links.
Why don't you make those links open in new window?

For example...

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Perkins_Loan" title="Federal Perkins Loan">

Change that to...

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Perkins_Loan" title="Federal Perkins Loan" target="_blank">

Just add target="_blank" within <code>

 

[evilopinions]

Can someone shed some more light on this quality score. Is it calculated by each individual domain or by your entire profile of domains and then you are just given a "blanket quality" score? If this is the case, I need to move about 800-1000 domains away from parked because I simply don't have the time to optimize them and I have a feeling they could be hurting my quality score. My CTR is at about 10% right now for my entire portfolio, but of the 1500 domains I have at parked only about 30-40 actually have added content. Should I just take down all my domains without content in hopes that my CTR will go up and park them somewhere else in the meantime until i have time to optimize them and add content?

Ok here is a tip for you..

Other people may have other ways. But personally I recommend creating 1 site that lists all of your domains and a little description about them. Submit that one page, let Google hit all of them and viola. I've seen it work millions of times.

I tried it one time with about 300,000 domains and it worked. Did I mention I didn't even own the domains?

I'm sure other people have other ways of doing similiar things.

Donny

My example though it works in theory trader has a very good point. At some time you will find that all of the domains are in one place. Sure you could create your own dmoz style search engine and try to hide it. Or do like I saw last week with somebody who downloaded wikipedia and just randomly inserted his own domains in. But I always like starting small.

Donny

And about the TQ score is are some extracts from a discussion on the internet...

Mind you i did not wanted to post an outgoing link to DNF so am quoting here...Also I do not have an accoun there so couldn't point u there...

Last night Yahoo, our primary search provider, announced to all of their advertisers and partners that they would be implementing a "quality based pricing" system starting immediately in the United States and Canada.

"...quality-based pricing is designed to adjust advertiser pricing based on the quality of traffic coming from our distribution network. Traffic is intended to be priced in a manner that is consistent with the quality delivered to advertisers, based on conversion rates and other proprietary factors.

To assist you in better understanding the level of your traffic quality, we plan to provide you with a Traffic Quality (TQ) score for each of your implementations. TQ scores should be included in your partner reports and communicated as a number from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest rating.

By pricing traffic commensurate with quality, we believe that we will deliver higher value to our advertisers, thus strengthening our marketplace and driving up monetization for our partners."

This is how the "quality based pricing" system will work at Parked.com. A person comes to one of your domains parked with us, they search and click out to an advertiser, Yahoo will look to see what your traffic quality score is and let's say you are an 8. The advertiser will be charged whatever an 8 is worth, if the click was originally $1.00, I was told that the click would be at least $0.80 but it could be much higher.

We will provide you with your traffic quality score once we receive it today, the TQ scores are supposed to be updated every 2 weeks. Over the next few weeks as we learn how the TQ scores are calculated we should be able to provide a little better guidance on how to increase your scores. If you feel that your score is too low, we should be able to work with you to see how we can improve your score.

Over the next 10 days Yahoo will continue to make improvements to the new system. We do not have any news on when any other countries will be added to the quality based pricing system. One last thing is that this will affect all parking companies that are using Yahoo, not just Parked.com.

Please don't hesitate to contact your account manager Monte White at [email protected] if you have any questions.


Thanks for your time,

Donny Simonton
CTO, Parked.com

So far from what I have seen, it's not whether it's a typo or if it's a correct spelled domain, it's all about the volume and does the traffic convert in the end.

I wouldn't pull any domains right now, because it's pretty amazing in some cases what has a high score and what doesn't.

Donny

The advertisers will not know what the TQ score is of the traffic they are receiving.

Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
1) If we have domains with no/low traffic in our account, will that affect our TQ score? If yes, then the obvious choice would be to move them.

Removing domains with no or low traffic should not affect your overall score. It's all about clicks, not revenue, not searches, not hits, completely about clicks. They take all clicks from your account and based on that data determine a score. You have a have a minimum number of clicks to get a score, if you don't you get a N/A. Remember we are also only talking about US/CA traffic right now as well.


Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
2) If we have domains with low CTR in our account, will that affect our TQ score? If yes, then the obvious choice is to move them.

Low CTR shouldn't affect your score at all, potentially it might increase your score, because people will be finding exactly what they are looking for.



Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
3) Over what time frame are we being assessed? 1/3/6/12 months?

In the past when Yahoo had TQ scores it was over a 1 month period and they calculated them every 2 weeks. This was good and bad, if you had a low score and we made improvements it took almost a month to see if our changes worked. I have been told the new calculations are done every 2 weeks and it's for the last 2 weeks, I was told no historical information is being used. So this is good and bad. The good is that if you had a low score 2 weeks ago you could potentially move it from a 1 to a 10. The bad is if you are a 10 you could drop down to a 1 under certain circumstances.



Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
4) Is the TQ a rolling score? If not how often is it looked at and updated? Another way to ask this is, if we make changes to improve our TQ score, how long will it be before we see the results of those changes.

2 weeks is what I have been told. On Friday, I asked when would the next update happen and they were not sure. So I would assume the next update would be next Saturday or Sunday.


Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
5) The scale is 1-10, right? So what percentage of a 10 score do 1-9 users get?

No clue right now. Personally, I haven't really see a large change in customers revenue based on score. I personally originally expected if you had a 1 then the advertiser would only have to pay 10%. But so far it looks like the advertiser gets a 10% discount and still has 90%. Now of course that could change, but Yahoo has not given me any indictation of if a 5 will be a 50% discount or a 5% discount. And I usually ask everyday.



Quote:
Originally Posted by stu
6) What other factors are being considered when calculating an account's score?

The biggest one is conversion, which is very similiar to how Google does theirs. Now Google also includes search queries as well, as Yahoo doesn't. Over the past week we have been taking certain people with lower scores and working with them to see how we can improve their scores.


I hope this answers all of your questions.

Donny

Normally they do rate us by the combination of all scores. But in the end they don't give me 1 score that says we are an 8 or a 7.

I can tell you that we have 3 large porfolios of domains that we own ourselves and their scores are 10, 8, and 8.

I don't think Yahoo will ever publish a list of what scores parking companies have, they won't even tell me if I'm the 3rd largest parking company with them or the 50th largest.

Donny

Stu - You have it a little wrong. Let's say your account gets 100 clicks a day, you will probably have a TQ score with Yahoo. I don't know the exact number but 100 is easier to use. The scores are not calculated on a domain level only on an account level. So if you have 10 domains in your account and they get 10 clicks each per day then you will probably have a TQ score. The score has nothing to do with volume, it's all about conversions. As I mentioned before we have one account that is a 10 and it has 3 times the click volume of an account we have that has an 8. I've seen people who were making over $3,000 a day with a 1 and people 2 domains in their account that were a 10.

Overall we haven't gone down since the 7th, but as I was originally told it would take 2-3 weeks for Yahoo to finish implementing all of the initial changes.

Donny

Back to my example, if you have 10 domains in your account, and the minimum threshold to get a TQ score is 100 clicks per day, and 1 domain gets 91 clicks per day and the other nine get 1 click per day, I don't see how those are hurting your score. Basically they take all 100 clicks and give you a score based on all 100 combined. If you have 1 domain getting 100 clicks per day or 5,000 domains getting a total off 100,000 clicks a day, you get one score which is on an account level not a domain level.

Focus - Javascript. The advertisers are supposed to put it on their join/invoice/signup page and it sends a hit back to Yahoo telling them they got a sale. Not all advertisers use it so it's only counted when an advertiser does use it.

Donny

Also what da big daddy thinks about it...
http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/yahoo_to_begin_.html

I checked your contents.
You have many link to wikipedia.
You will lose visitors every time those visitors click on those links.
Why don't you make those links open in new window?

For example...

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Perkins_Loan" title="Federal Perkins Loan">

Change that to...

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Perkins_Loan" title="Federal Perkins Loan" target="_blank">

Just add target="_blank" within <code>

Course I will change it...Thanks for that...Just saw was a 1 click lander yesterday thats why took pains to go to wiki and take some content...he he...

Me too lazy .. :imho:

 

[bradskid]

Thanks a ton Evil. I'm sure it wasn't easy to include and extract all those quotes, so seriously, thanks a lot.

And yeah, I have kind of always wondered how many domains I could link to in order to help them get indexed faster. I have one website that gets indexed by google every 1-2 days so I have been rotating about 10 links a day and getting them indexed. I now feel more comfortable just adding all of em at once. I was always afraid that google would somehow "notice" that I was just throwing in 2,000 links to parked pages and throw the gauntlet at me so to speak.

 

[evilopinions]

Thanks a ton Evil. I'm sure it wasn't easy to include and extract all those quotes, so seriously, thanks a lot.

And yeah, I have kind of always wondered how many domains I could link to in order to help them get indexed faster. I have one website that gets indexed by google every 1-2 days so I have been rotating about 10 links a day and getting them indexed. I now feel more comfortable just adding all of em at once. I was always afraid that google would somehow "notice" that I was just throwing in 2,000 links to parked pages and throw the gauntlet at me so to speak.

I have a very few good generics .in extension...

what I did was added them to wikipedia -- and they survived the edit..so they are still there....

Now because they are in wikipedia the main pages of all these sites have a link to all my parked domains...That way they get indexed faster...there are tons of ways to get them indexed mine is just one of them...I do not see much problem with this because the domain that are in the wiki were intentionally bought for this purpose of getting others indexed..

 

[JesusFreak]

I just got denied by parked. Anybody have recommendations?

 

[bradskid]

Well, if parked denied you they probably had a legitimate reason. If they didn't tell you in the email, I am certain if you email them and ask why they will tell you. Then, work on whatever it was that caused you to be denied. If it was low quality names, spend some time watching the drop lists, researching some markets with good available names, ect. If it was for not enough domains, well..... that one is pretty easy. Get more names. If you think your names are already good or if they are already producing traffic somewhere else, perhaps including a screenshot or a report of your traffic stats might help. Parked.com easily has the best customer service in the parking industry that I have seen, so as long as you are not rude and are polite with them, I am sure they will not only tell you why your account was denied, but might also work with you in getting to the point where they can accept you as a member.

If you want to PM me the list of names you signed up with, I also might be able to tell you pretty quickly why they didn't accept your application.

 

[JesusFreak]

Well, if parked denied you they probably had a legitimate reason. If they didn't tell you in the email, I am certain if you email them and ask why they will tell you. Then, work on whatever it was that caused you to be denied. If it was low quality names, spend some time watching the drop lists, researching some markets with good available names, ect. If it was for not enough domains, well..... that one is pretty easy. Get more names. If you think your names are already good or if they are already producing traffic somewhere else, perhaps including a screenshot or a report of your traffic stats might help. Parked.com easily has the best customer service in the parking industry that I have seen, so as long as you are not rude and are polite with them, I am sure they will not only tell you why your account was denied, but might also work with you in getting to the point where they can accept you as a member.

If you want to PM me the list of names you signed up with, I also might be able to tell you pretty quickly why they didn't accept your application.

Thanks for reply, perhaps I will just try arbitrage elsewhere

 

[jeffoverman]

I just read all the quotes above and etc.

Thanks in taking the time to repost all this

Still very confused on what all this means for me and parked.

I am going trim my portfolio down with parked I guess and keep the names that have views and etc.

I can't afford to loose my parked account right now as I am learning, I emailed my rep this morning and waiting for a reply. I am trying customize things and got 5 names customized pretty well and with tag names. All takes time.

That's interesting about the index factor. To bad I am clueless on how to do that. I did see a lot of bot activity in my account a few days back and looks like search picking up my names finally.

Maybe the work is beginning pay off. I don't know. After reading comments past couple days I am more confused then before lol. Good info but what does This really mean to me and my account. I feel the traffic I am bringing is good but I am in the kiddy pool and very low dollar amounts

Interesting on the .in issue above. I just grabbed my first .in name. Casinohotels.in and ended up grabbing calls.vc which I did customize and its at parked now.

Quality score, learning how to improve ctr and etc is beginning get to me now more then starting out. I so wish I could pick up the phone and take 5 minutes of parks time or 10 minutes and review my account and talk to human being. Guess I will continue to dread on things and worry on things, tweak my sites.

Beginning think I will take 150 names out of parked and keep 50 names. I don't know. I really don't want to do this or go to another parking company on these names since I like parked and backend. Customization tools and tag feature but if I can't bring views to my other names fast enough and this quality score issue I think will have a damp impact on my account then I should just make a quick call on this. I don't know.


Regards,


More confused then ever with things lol.

 

[prateekj]

I am in urgent need of a Parked account but they have already rejected me twice. But I recently acquired a few high traffic names so i hope they will accept me this time.

 

[jeffoverman]

Good luck.

 

[sso]

I am also guessing that 1 page landers do not remain 1 page in every country...

studentsloan.in here in australia is 1 page..Most of the traffic however is Indian and I am unsure if it is a 1 page lander in India as well...

yes that's true, only countries covered by yahoo will get 1 click, any other country will get 2 click what ever the domain name is

 

[bgmv]

Since moving to Parked my domains started out producing good $. About a week later i havent recieved any clicks or views on the domain that was performing the best. I do not know if this due to SEO problems but my DN used to #1 on google now I cant even find it. How do i get it back up there? I would really like to see some of those clicks again.

BGMV

 

[gubera]

I moved all but one of my domains back to parked from bodis. (I will keep one there for a while to see if revenue will improve)

One of my domains that was never a good revenue producer showed $1.36 for yesterday and then it got revised to $3.59!!!

Now if I could get results like this every day!

 

[bradskid]

Since moving to Parked my domains started out producing good $. About a week later i havent recieved any clicks or views on the domain that was performing the best. I do not know if this due to SEO problems but my DN used to #1 on google now I cant even find it. How do i get it back up there? I would really like to see some of those clicks again.

BGMV

Is it a typo domain? And by any chance was it on SEDO when it was #1 in google. I have noticed that quite a few of my domains, the typo ones especially, were #1 in google when they were on SEDO. After I moved them to parked, they jumped to like #952 or something. But after a week or two , most of them got back to the first or second page. Some never recovered. You gotta remember.... Parked.com has a yahoo feed. Google probably takes this into consideration when ranking your parked.com pages. But overall, Parked is still the best :imho:

 

[netmeg]

Parked lets you set the title and the meta description. In theory, that should give you a pretty good advantage as far as rankings. But you have to set them wisely - not too many words, nor too few. You might have to play with it a while to get the right mix.

 

[bgmv]

Well what I did was copy and paste the meta tags and description verbatim from 1plus to parked. Hopefully they will recover, otherwise im SOL. thanks for the help.

 

[rexvnus]

When I added my domains into Parked portfolios, I often got the domain conflict (most of them). Anyone has the same problem? And how should we do to get it faster?
Thank you

 

[Elgrey]

Hi everyone.

Does anyone have any european cctld with parked.com?

A few months ago everybody said that parked.com performing well only for traffic from us.

How the situation looks now?

I wonder if yahoo is present in Germany and Netherlands, maybe it's worth to check how it's performing for .de and .nl?

I would be grateful for any comments.

 

[Sleepys]

When I added my domains into Parked portfolios, I often got the domain conflict (most of them)

This is normally the result of you adding a name that someone already had Parked on the Parked system and the previous person not removing it from their account. Their is a domain conflict report feature on the help section. They verify the whois and change everything (including taking it off of the other person's account). It is almost never a problem.

 

[NameCharger]

Does Parked have plans to add .mobi templates?

 

[TheBaldOne]

Hi guys, wonder if you could help me by possibly explaining something. Late last weekend I moved 600+ domains to Parked, today nearly every .net has been hit at least once, this wasn't in the space of a few minutes that you would expect from some robot crawling through the system but steadily through the day. Any ideas why this might be?

 

[bradskid]

Hi guys, wonder if you could help me by possibly explaining something. Late last weekend I moved 600+ domains to Parked, today nearly every .net has been hit at least once, this wasn't in the space of a few minutes that you would expect from some robot crawling through the system but steadily through the day. Any ideas why this might be?

Don't know. But I had the exact same thing happen to me. 90% of my .net's got hits today. But mine all happened within a 1 or 2 hour period.

 

[evilopinions]

Don't know. But I had the exact same thing happen to me. 90% of my .net's got hits today. But mine all happened within a 1 or 2 hour period.

Parked doesn't count bot traffic...Maybe just a coincidence...I have seen visitors from yahoo on a domain that was freshly registered and parked within 1 day...