$26.55 per click.

[homebuyer]

When I type in my three word domain name with spaces, without hyphens, and without the tld in Overture's View Bids Tool it returns sites that pay $25 to $26.55 per click. Is this good? Should I use it, park it, or sell it?

 

[duceman]

If it has traffic park it for a few months to build up stats.

If the stats are good you can sell it for 36-48X rev

 

[domainacrobat]

This is the thing-------Most people assume that if there is a $25 bid, their payout is going to be $25... If the next bid is $0.15, the top click will only be $0.20. Proxy bidding. Many companies bid $50 as a way to scare all other bidders for that term. No one else is going to bid the term up. I have seen $326 bids for ipod related items, but the next bid was only $0.85. Now if the second highest bid is $20 then you definately want to keep the name. Also just because bids are high at yahoo doesnt mean they are that high at google.

For example
keywords:
best sports car
top bid is $5
next bid is $4
Definately a money maker!

 

[Mr Blockeel]

This is the thing-------Most people assume that if there is a $25 bid, their payout is going to be $25... If the next bid is $0.15, the top click will only be $0.20. Proxy bidding. Many companies bid $50 as a way to scare all other bidders for that term. No one else is going to bid the term up. I have seen $326 bids for ipod related items, but the next bid was only $0.85. Now if the second highest bid is $20 then you definately want to keep the name. Also just because bids are high at yahoo doesnt mean they are that high at google.

For example
keywords:
best sports car
top bid is $5
next bid is $4
Definately a money maker!

didn't know that, verry usefull, so actualy you don't have to look at the nax bid of a keyword but you have to watch the acty-ivity and concurence

 

[domainacrobat]

didn't know that, verry usefull, so actualy you don't have to look at the nax bid of a keyword but you have to watch the acty-ivity and concurence

I am a little confused by what you said... You have to look at the top two or three bids to determine how much the top click will get you.

 

[matt_bodis]

Basically just look at the CPC of all the advertisers, not just the top one.

If the second advertiser is $1 per click, and the first advertiser is $10 per click - your maximum possible CPC will then be $1. The first advertiser can put down $100000000 for their click, it will still be $1.

 

[gamehouse]

Also as far as I know, most of the parking sites use google feeds. Bids for adwords differ greatly, imo.

GH

 

[homebuyer]

Bids are high.

Here is the bid order:

$25, $24.50, $24.50, $23.75, $15, $15, $13.08, $13.04, $12.40, $3, $2.54, $1, 11 cents, .10, .10, .10.

All are big law firms.

 

[nmr86]

wow man.. thats a lot for 1 click :D

 

[petrosc]

Also as far as I know, most of the parking sites use google feeds. Bids for adwords differ greatly, imo.

GH

I think parked.com uses yahoo feeds, so he can try that out.

 

[lau]

Wow,that's cooooooool

 

[cache]

nice one.

Here is the bid order:

$25, $24.50, $24.50, $23.75, $15, $15, $13.08, $13.04, $12.40, $3, $2.54, $1, 11 cents, .10, .10, .10.

All are big law firms.

 

[dom35]

Just to take note:

"Created by the founders of domain name registrar directNIC.com"

I think parked.com uses yahoo feeds, so he can try that out.

 

[ukguy]

Basically just look at the CPC of all the advertisers, not just the top one.

If the second advertiser is $1 per click, and the first advertiser is $10 per click - your maximum possible CPC will then be $1. The first advertiser can put down $100000000 for their click, it will still be $1.

so why don't they? I mean if they are never going to pay it

What I mean, is how is the top actual bid value worked out?

 

[RJ]

Plus you need to remember to cut those bid prices in quarters, to account for Google/Yahoo's share and the parking company's percentage. If the advertiser is paying $1.00 for a click, Google takes ~$.50, and your parking company takes another ~$.25.

 

[matt_bodis]

Plus you need to remember to cut those bid prices in quarters, to account for Google/Yahoo's share and the parking company's percentage. If the advertiser is paying $1.00 for a click, Google takes ~$.50, and your parking company takes another ~$.25.

Ideally.

Although the reported numbers is that Google gives 78% share to the user average. It also depends on your site PR, etc. But the overall point is, Google gives 75% or so to the parking company. If the parking company is a greedy one (Sedo for example), you probably will end up with 20% of that 75%. So in all honesty, something that may be $1 per click payed by Google advertisers, may end you up with 15 cents.

They're the real winners.

 

[Ronald Regging]

why not just throw up your own park page and use your own Adsense text links... I guess if you have a big portfolio, this would take far too much time, but if I had keywords that advertisers were bidding $25 a click on, I'd be taking the time to get the most out of it...

 

[pepo]

Another thing about bids is that ads can be targeted to certain segment or the funds in advertisers acount (or daily limit) depletet

 

[ironcannibal]

Spend about an hour and create a simple page that is optimized for your term(s) and put your own Adsense on it. Pop it up on your server and start some link trades / directory submissions. Get some traffic, benefit from not sharing your money with a domain park.