97,000 uniques, 3 clicks, 11 cents!

[randomo]

I recently caught a dropping domain that, for the past 5 days, averaged 40,000+ uniques a day (at ParkingPanel). I was getting 0 clicks, so it all looked like some kind of automated / illegitimate traffic. (Sedo wouldn't let me park it because of some bad history with that domain.)

However, in the past 2 days, I have gotten 3 clicks (out of 97,000+ uniques). So there must be some real people hitting that site!

Any ideas on how to improve that CTR?

Cheers,
Dave

P.S. I have just taken it off ParkingPanel and set up a simple page, asking people what they were hoping to find there. No responses yet.

 

[SpareDomains]

this is where a domain sponsor comes in handy, park it at domain sponsor with pop-ups off and use the simple berlin lander which has a nice search box on it and let the visitors search for what they are looking for, after a few days the auto optimization will change the links to what people are searching for, if it pays good keep it there if not you can move it away and base your keyword on what the domain sponsor page shows after some traffic has hit it, this has worked great for me, you could also use archive.org and see if you find some history of what was on the domain previously.

 

[DropLister]

What do the referers look like in your stats

 

[gazzip]

Any ideas on how to improve that CTR?
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Holy Cow whats the name ?


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[randomo]

this is where a domain sponsor comes in handy, park it at domain sponsor with pop-ups off and use the simple berlin lander which has a nice search box on it and let the visitors search for what they are looking for, after a few days the auto optimization will change the links to what people are searching for, if it pays good keep it there if not you can move it away and base your keyword on what the domain sponsor page shows after some traffic has hit it, this has worked great for me, you could also use archive.org and see if you find some history of what was on the domain previously.

Thanks for the advice ... will look into DomainSponsor. (Archive.org shows that it had a site where "We pay you to click on our advertiser's links". Probably some kind of click fraud scheme, though they were also looking for advertisers who would pay for traffic.)

What do the referers look like in your stats

I don't think ParkingPanel provides that kind of data. I have the site set up now on a hosting account, so I'll be able to get stats soon.

Holy Cow whats the name ?

PaidClicking(.)com!

 

[yoshine]

Thanks for the advice ... will look into DomainSponsor. (Archive.org shows that it had a site where "We pay you to click on our advertiser's links". Probably some kind of click fraud scheme, though they were also looking for advertisers who would pay for traffic.)


I don't think ParkingPanel provides that kind of data. I have the site set up now on a hosting account, so I'll be able to get stats soon.


PaidClicking(.)com!

try setting up a traffic site at bodis like get a picture thats says "Get Free Clicks" then with links to adverticers! see how that works

 

[Domagon]

I'm not up on all the ins and outs of parking, but if you rely on parking for a large portion of your income, it seems risky to me to park such an underperforming domain with a questionable past getting so much automated traffic.

Perhaps the risk is unfounded, but anyways, your idea of pointing it to a simple page with a contact email (even if it's a throw-away) seems a much better approach than parking.

Ron

 

[randomo]

I'm not up on all the ins and outs of parking, but if you rely on parking for a large portion of your income, it seems risky to me to park such an underperforming domain with a questionable past getting so much automated traffic.

Perhaps the risk is unfounded, but anyways, your idea of pointing it to a simple page with a contact email (even if it's a throw-away) seems a much better approach than parking.

Ron

Actually, parking is a very small portion of my income. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to make some money from such a huge amount of traffic, whatever the source! (Since there were a few clicks, apparently it's not all automated, though the vast majority might be.)

 

[Smiler]

I've checked the your websites and it looks great. The number of uniques are impressive.

 

[TomskiBOTN]

gwad damn thats some traffic!

 

[DnPresident]

97,000 uniques, 3 clicks, 11 cents!

If that's not just bot/generated traffic, it must be aliens

1000 and (3) clicks would be bad enough. Might want to look at the referrer. if it looks like that, let me know.

 

[clocker24]

Wow, that's an awful CTR. I agree that DomainSponsor is the way to go. I've had high traffic domains that did poorly at Sedo because I just couldn't figure out how to optimize them - like Battl.com - then I switched them to DomainSponsor and after some time their system figured out what people were looking for and optimzed the pages accordingly.

 

[Donny]

I agree, anytime you have a domain with thousands of automated hits send it to Domain Sponsor.

They take everything!

Donny

 

[randomo]

As I mentioned, I had it at ParkingPanel for 5 days (until yesterday). Their system is also supposed to auto-optimize over time, I think. Of course, out of the 227,000 uniques it got in those 5 days, only 34 visitors typed something into the search box, so it may take a while to optimize correctly ... but I'll see. (The fact that it got any clicks in the last two days is encouraging; maybe that trickle will become a torrent! )