Sedo said:
1. Parking: Let me know which domains you seem to be having a multiple-click issues with, and I would be happy to look into it for you and help you get to the bottom of it.
Always,
Keith
I think that you are misunderstanding his question here Keith. There is a long running argument that some parking companies are better than others, because some companies pay us for every click, whereas some companies are only supposed to pay us for the first click. I don't know how you guys calculate clicks, but it is said that you only give us the first click, and that is why we never see a CTR over 100%. With some companies we may get 1 unique visitor and 10 clicks, for a CTR of 1000%.
Let me give my take on CTR and if I am completely off base, someone please correct me. I have heard that Google, Yahoo, Ask, and whoever don't actually tell the parking companies how many clicks a domain got, but rather they just tell them how much money that domain made. It is then up to the parking company to tell us how many visitors and clicks we had. Is this true?? If it is true, then Sedo or Namedrive could pay us $.20 for 1 click from 1 visitor, with a CTR of 100%. Trafficz and Parked could pay us $.10 for 2 clicks from 1 visitor. They would have a CTR of 200% and an RPM that is twice as high. Now I am not saying that these parking companies intentionally would mislead us, but it could just be in the different ways that they track stats. I also do have some domains that get $.50-$1.00 per click at Sedo, but only like $.05 at other companies. These domains do usually get more clicks other places, but it takes a lot more clicks to make more money at that rate. Now before any of you think that I am in love with Sedo or anything, I do have many names that do much better at other companies, and I just moved a bunch away.
Here is something else to think about. We all know that Sedo shows the most traffic. This is obviously to their benefit, because domains with traffic that are for sale, seem to have more traffic, and probably sell for more. At the same time, this does decrease your RPM to a much lower level than other places. I do have domains that have gotten thousands of daily visitors at Sedo and less than 10 at Parked (Damn RSS traffc). Anyway, those domains make more at Sedo, 1000 visitors a day at $.50 RPM is $.50 a day. At Parked 10 visitors a day with an RPM of $8.00 is only $.08 a day. Even though the RPM is 16 times as high at Parked, I make 6 times as much at Sedo. I do have a low RPM at Sedo and yes as I said above I have many domains that outperform elsewhere. I am just giving some examples of what is performing for me there. Also, Sedo pays a minimum of $.02. I know that we don't like to think about it, but Namedrive and Trafficz sometimes pay me $0.00 or $0.01. Anything that consistently gets those clicks should do at least 2-4 times as well at Sedo if it stays at the minimum (Hopefully Sedo doesn't get pissed that I am driving low quality clicks to them :hehe: A click is a click, right?)
Anyway, if anyone has more insight into the multiple click thing, perhaps a rep from the companies, I would rather know the truth and be way off, than not know at all.
P.S. (to this long post) We should remember that Sedo is not open at night or on weekends, so we should probably not expect them to be on here during those times. They are not all robots like Donny :hehe: