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Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
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sihar07 said:if someone type a word/phrase at google search box and klik the tab "I'm feeling lucky" , is that considered as type-in traffic or search engine traffic?
ArtfulWebSites said:xxfireflyxx,
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So, I still don't quite understand how a "type-in" gets any significant traffic without any kind of promotion or PPC advertising.
mrizos said:lucky...I'm a noob (about 8 months now), so typein's are pretty much history unless I want to take out a loan
Seabass said:All I know is that from an initial glance, since arb has stopped, my income has taken a jump upwards. I was closing down more often than not before.
I never did arb. so my income was not affected.
packrat said:I've also found that without arb that my RPC has gone up. I'm hoping that once I have
them all optimized and they get indexed that I'll wonder why I ever needed
arbitrage!
goodkarmaco said:Its true that the visitor needs to type in the .com after the name for it to be a true type in. Thats how they land on my parked page. Believe me I am small potatoes, but I am going in the right direction. Others are sipping margaritas on cruise ships from their earnings from ppc.
mrizos said:I wanna sip margaritas!!!! Well, I have some two word domains that are searched for about 600 times a day (and they are .com's...) so I'll let you guys know how many type in's I get.
Stay Tuned.
goodkarmaco said:Its true that the visitor needs to type in the .com after the name for it to be a true type in. Thats how they land on my parked page. Believe me I am small potatoes, but I am going in the right direction. Others are sipping margaritas on cruise ships from their earnings from ppc.
Varon said:Finding the right combination keywords for a type in is a tough task. It needs a whole lot of research. The word "Britney Spears" is searched for an average of 85000 (Wordtracker Predict) times a day on various SE's. But not all heavily searched words are lucky enough to get typed in with the extension. Imo, britneyspears.com must not be getting more than 120 actual type-ins a day. It still gets around 300,000 visitors a month and has an Alexa ranking of 31,826. This traffic is almost entirely from its search engine ranking at #2 for the KW Britney Spears and also from its around 43,000 backlinks.
In short, to get a pure type-in it is more important to "get into the minds" of people that type-in and "understand" what type of keywords actually get typed in. There are some KW's which have high frequency searches, but rarely get typed in. Vice versa there are some keywords which get searched just a thousand times a day but have a high percentage of being typed in with an extension. That understanding is the crucial part. Once you've got that concept right, believe me, you'll have 100's of solid type-in domains.
mrizos said:Yeah, that makes sense. I have been thinking about that concept all weekend. I plan on trying/buying about 2 .com's a week. I think domain tasting is pretty much dead, correct?
Varon said:Can't say much about DT. Well, no harm in buying a name and checking out if it gets type-ins. You have nothing to lose.
cassidy36 said:How about expired domain taffic? Anyone have any good/bad experiences? I took the plunge and dropped $500 on an expired domain on TDNAM, which I'll get hold of next Saturday, I'm not sure if I did the right thing, but I have to try every angle, post arb.
mrizos said:Yeah, that makes sense. I have been thinking about that concept all weekend. I plan on trying/buying about 2 .com's a week. I think domain tasting is pretty much dead, correct?
I couldn't agree more! :tu:thebutler said:Heck after 80 hours if you are not getting traffic on something that is showing good search results drop it. Moniker still allows tasting for 25 cents. Reg it test it and hopefully keep it but if not drop it. Save your $$$ for another try.
cassidy36 said:How about expired domain taffic? Anyone have any good/bad experiences? I took the plunge and dropped $500 on an expired domain on TDNAM, which I'll get hold of next Saturday, I'm not sure if I did the right thing, but I have to try every angle, post arb.
larryharlow said:Yahoo people are really stupid. How can they call arbitrage traffic "poor" if PARKED.com has mainly 2 click landers wich means visitors are really interested in content to click ads.
thebutler said:Heck after 80 hours if you are not getting traffic on something that is showing good search results drop it. Moniker still allows tasting for 25 cents. Reg it test it and hopefully keep it but if not drop it. Save your $$$ for another try.
hitchhiker said:dont believe in expired traffic unless
1. there is significant backlink
2. you can find the cache of the site on archive.org
3. there is some pagerank
a common practice is to rebuild the site using the cacheon archive.org to ensure the site doesnt drop off the search engine index. Pakring could potentially black list your site if its a high backlink site. . . if you spend $500 on a name that doesnt have true type in potential, parking it is actually the worst thing you can do.
expired domain still represent 50% of my parking income. . . I'm refocusing on it these days . . .
there are a lot of tool you can use to help you do homework on which expired domains to buy . . . use them, use them all . . . some are free some are not . . . just gotta do some trial and error to get a "system" down . . .
cassidy36 said:thebutler, hitchhicker,
Thanks for the info guys... I believe I did do some good research using tools that are out there and I was always suspicious of the stats on TDNAM, though I didn't realize it was that bad, 10% of the number would suck. The biggest draw for me is it has the same name as a popular .net site and I bought the .com name, my thought is even when the back links dry up there will still be people trying to get to the popular .net site and typing .com instead. If I park the site with parked.com and populate it with the content cache on archive.org would that keep it from dropping of the search engine index?
gingeman said:Is there a reason for this? My names at other parking companies are much less consistent, some days $2 and 100 visitors, the next $25 and 1000 etc...
Its not that I am complaining, obviously consistency is good, but it does seem a little strange just how consistent my portfolio at parked is...