PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

Donny said:

Tony - WTF? A new avatar?

Donny

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You don't like it??....lol....i got tired of the Tony Montana "gansta" look....

Tony - No I like it. Just different than the last one.

Donny

Donny said:

Tony - No I like it. Just different than the last one.

Donny

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Maybe it brings me higher rpc...lol....

tonyfloyd said:

Maybe it brings me higher rpc...lol....

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Let's hope so for all of us in Da Parked Club, Tony

Don't worry, we are working with the voodoo dolls right now.

Donny

Parking

My parking revenue is down about 40% from 6-1-08 to 7-13-08 compared to 6-1-09 to 7-13-09

I even took out the seasonal names to make it apples to apples.

As someone else indicated, i find Jennifer useless and a general waste of time and energy. (no, i do not have any open tickets)


Other long time parked customers, is your decline about 40% for the same period? 6-1-08 to 7-13-08 compared to 6-1-09 to 7-13-09

steven22 said:

My parking revenue is down about 40% from 6-1-08 to 7-13-08 compared to 6-1-09 to 7-13-09

I even took out the seasonal names to make it apples to apples.

As someone else indicated, i find Jennifer useless and a general waste of time and energy. (no, i do not have any open tickets)


Other long time parked customers, is your decline about 40% for the same period? 6-1-08 to 7-13-08 compared to 6-1-09 to 7-13-09

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I've had several 2 week periods where I made less than I made in a single day last year. I started dropping in December - thought it was because of Christmas but never came back.

Last year was my first year parking. Should have started sooner but didn't realize how much traffic I had on one of my domains.

I've never contacted my account manager. I suppose that another area I've messed up

Seems like the estimates are sluggish - a couple of hours behind this afternoon...

yeah...im seeing that too.....

That was because we were fixing some of the numbers were incorrect from 7/11 to 7/13, so we were having to refinalize all of the numbers. You would only be affected if you moved a domain from one account to another between 7/1 and 7/10.

Donny

ebatcave said:

Seems like the estimates are sluggish - a couple of hours behind this afternoon...

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seems to be the same again today?

Donny pm sent

Parked is in maintenance mode right now. Maybe they're running something to speed it up...

Donny

Donny, will there ever be 1 click domains for .in's again. I used to make great money using parked. Nothing with the 2 clicks.

Peyton - 1 click domains are determined by our providers. So if they tell us it's allowed, we do it.

Donny

is there any popups , pounders can be made for domains ? not found any such info in panel :D

Not that I know of. But I never looked.

chandon - We have tried pop-ups and pop-unders before and we found that for all of the money that you made with them you lost in normal clicks. So we have never officially offered them on parked.com.

It also looks like the stats sluggishness has been resolved.

Donny

Parked.com one cent clicks

Are others seeing this massive increase in one-cent clicks.

Donnie said they use a feed that only pays one cent no matter what is clicked. It seems incredible they couldn't find a better paying provider.

On page 171 Donnie said, "We have an advertiser who pays us directly 1 cent a click no matter what country or keyword they are called a Run of Network Advertiser (RON), basically they usually get the crap traffic. I have no idea what your revshare is, but if you have 1 click we get a penny, and then take your revshare which for this example is 70%. Technically you should get $0.007, but we only pay to the penny, so basically we don't make anything on this click and pay you the full penny because we round it up. But if you have 2 clicks this adds up to $0.014 when we round it rounds down to 1 penny. Understand this is on a domain level, so if you have 1 click on 2 different domains with this advertiser you would actually get 2 cents.

July 1-15 (15 days)
31 clicks averaging one cents per click or less.

June 2009 (30 days)
56 clicks averaging one cents per click or less.

May 2009 (31 days)
1 click averaging one cents per click or less.

April 2009 (30 days)
1 click averaging one cents per click or less.

Observations and qustions:

Almost all of the domains involved in the clicks above paid alot more per click in the past so why are they now it seems going to the Run of Network Advertiser?

Are these one-cent clicks taking away visits to our "Alternate Traffic Destination" for an entire URL as it sounds by Donnie's explanation? If so, I'd prefer my alternative destination.

If all traffic all the time for a domain is being sent to this Run of Network Advertiser, we should be able to know which of our domains are involved.

I would like an option to exclude this feed since it's created discontent, seems to be making this provider a ton of money, and we've been left in the dark as to who they are.

The Alternative Traffic Destination, technically hasn't worked as it was intended for about 2.5 years now. Today the only time it is affective is if you say Primary Only.

Now let me explain how our overall system works, 99.99999% of the clicks that are 1 cent are from countries that Yahoo doesn't support. We have 25 feeds that we have in our system today. So if somebody comes from say China and search for "dog farts", we will determine out of those 25 which support traffic from China, we do this for every search. Once we get all of the information back we actually order by the price in the feed that people say they will pay us. And our minimum we deal with us 1 cent. So let's say we get back 50 results for "dog farts" we remove anything that is less than 1 cent and then we order by the price and that's the results that you get.

Trust me if the traffic is from countries like US/CA you will never get any 1 cent clicks. But when you are talking about Vietnam, China, Korea, Turkey, Romania, yes you will get some 1 cent clicks. But remember if you are getting those, that means we didn't have anybody higher than them.

Donny

Hey Donny, got any thoughts on this, and if it does actually go through, what effect it'll have on Parked/WhyPark?

Microsoft and Yahoo in Final Talks on Search Deal

netmeg - I'll say this. I've read the article and done some research and talked to a few friends inside Yahoo. It seems the story was taken out of concept and people are running with it quite a bit. So it sounds like just more rumors.

Now as far as some of the ideas people have. One was that Yahoo would sell search and their ad network to Microsoft, I think both of us know that Microsoft's ad system is better than Yahoo's, they just don't have the volume. So that might be a good thing. Another one was that Yahoo would just sell search and Microsoft would pass their ad network to Yahoo, that doesn't make sense to me. But it would still increase the overall revenues.

I think either of them would be fine, obviously I would much rather deal with Yahoo than Microsoft. But I have had some talks about feeds with Microsoft lately.

I personally don't think anything will happen, but don't worry, we are preparing if something does.

Donny

As an advertiser, I'd be back in Microsoft in a New York minute if they had the volume. They definitely have the technology (including the Excel add in and the new desktop management tool) I also tried to run adCenter ads on my developed sites (am in the beta) but I had to take them off - couldn't get anything but junk travel and diet blog ads. Since many of my sites are built around areas, and MS didn't seem to have much in the way of locally targeted contextual ads, it was a big bust.

Something that put together Yahoo's network with Microsoft's interface & technology would be great for me, on just about every level.

But I hadn't, until recently, thought much about its possible effect on parking.

Seabass said:

Hey Donny,

I just got a finalized click for .01 cent from the U.S. for one of my domains that have to do with Hunting in Texas, and my referral stats say 100% U.S. traffic.

Does this mean maybe it was a .014 cent click possibly that was rounded down to .01 cent or something similar?

I'll PM you the domain.

I know it's tedious to be talking about .01 cent clicks for you, but I was just overly curious how that happened.

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I want to know more about this also please.