Active and Passive Domains

[decades80]

Hi,

I have noticed that majority of domains are passive and they perform best at 1 parking provider. Later I found out, some domains perform better when the Layout and ads are changed (approx. 10%), so You have to switch to another Parking Company when the there is a sleeping phase. What are your experiences?

 

[Outlast]

Just got into parking, moved from parking at sedo to a better site, and the results have been ncouraging. I have been wondering if I should move some of the domains to another parking provider Voodoo to see if I can get better results there. I believe you gotta give it some time like a few months...before changing up.

I am curious about the selection process by experienced parkers. Do you watch your domains and let go of the ones that underperform? or do you try them out on many different parking companies before giving up. Whats your decision on whether to keep a domain name or let it expire/sell it - would you keep a domain name that cant pay for its own renewal?

Anyone making good money with small portfolios? or is parking about having hundreds, and thousands of sites.

Cheers

 

[Name Trader]

I use above.com to try out my domains at different parking companies. Let them do the work of deciding who pays best. Takes care of all those active/passive phases if above.com are to be believed.

 

[decades80]

Thanks Stub, didnt know about that. I have 1 domain which I have to move each 2 days I mean after I move it max. 2 days I get clicks, but than nothing for a month. So I am simply moving it between Voodoo and IT. Cant explain why such a behaviour, But it could be, some users are returning and when the template changes, they simply think is the site update and click on all those interesting links Parked pages are as they are for domainers only. Average people dont know what is a parked page, thank you God. If they see some keywords of their interest and linked to their browsing history, they check them out. When I didnt know what is a domain parking, I did that all the time. I thought site changed or I came through links to parked page.

 

[Name Trader]

I think above.com probably cannot help you if you are switching every 2 days. I thought you were referring to seasonal type of domains where low-season gets better clicks at another provider.

 

[Hypersot]

Just spotted this thread (no idea how I've missed it)

Yes Decades, I have also noticed the same behaviour on my domains

At first I thought it was above.com that -because of maximizer- was getting most of the traffic from said domains, but I still wasn't sure until I read this thread

I first noticed it when ParkingCrew started having the attacks on their site which lasted 2-3 days on and off.
One of those days I decided to turn ParkingCrew off -from Above.com's console- for a few minutes, just to force the traffic to redirect to the other parking sites I had on my account.
Since PC performs best for my domains, I didn't want that redirection to last long, that's why I turned it only a few minutes off.

That's where I noticed something very weird happening... I started getting traffic from domains that never had *any* traffic at all or used to have extremely low.

In the end, PC stayed off for 3 days, since even a few minutes off makes Above.com's algorithm to completely ignore said parking service for 24hours plus 48hrs because it was weekend (that's exactly what Above.com told me when I asked why PC stayed off for so long)

In those 3 days I watched my domains behaving 'completely' different ... clicks on domains that never had any clicks, traffic where it shouldn't be, ... I even experienced one my best earning days (although this might also be coincidence)
To be honest I was pretty sure it was Above.com's doing... but having read this thread, I'm not so sure anymore.


Well, that's my story and experience

 

[Name Trader]

OK. I take back what I said above. I think you could use Above.com to do this. Turn off 1 parking company for 24hrs. As Hypersot suggested.

@Hypersot. I turned off the maximizer against the advice of the above.com staff. I think my revenues are more unstable now with goodish and badish months. I kinda refuse to believe it's because I turned of the maximizer, though. I turned it off because the maximizer share of my total revenue went from 1-2% to 15%. Which I think is a bit high for a backup service to be having, imho.

 

[Hypersot]

OK. I take back what I said above. I think you could use Above.com to do this. Turn off 1 parking company for 24hrs. As Hypersot suggested.

@Hypersot. I turned off the maximizer against the advice of the above.com staff. I think my revenues are more unstable now with goodish and badish months. I kinda refuse to believe it's because I turned of the maximizer, though. I turned it off because the maximizer share of my total revenue went from 1-2% to 15%. Which I think is a bit high for a backup service to be having, imho.

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Thanks for updating Stub. I'm still watching the thread where you first mentioned this.

can't wait the day when you finish your test . I'm very curious to see the results.

Currently maximizer is helping me immensely on domains that have high traffic but no clicks at all, since it gets them and monetizes them somehow.
I've even asked the Above team if I could use maximizer only on some domains but they said this is not possible

</offtopic>

Sorry for the offtopic Decades

 

[NachoGalactico]

My own experience with maximizer lately is that it has gone down in %age terms, whereas in the months before and around xmas it was creeping up - perhaps the parking companies are back to getting better revenue? - I had a $4.53 click at voodoo yesterday, happy...

Typically I can't stop messing and swapping around with my parked domains so above has been a godsend in this respect as it takes this away.

I went back to square one. Last month I set everything at InternetTraffic for a couple of weeks, then introduced Voodoo, then at the start of this month introduced ParkingCrew, then just today finally introduced DomainSponsor - and that is that for me, I'm just going to let above run with it now for a good few months and see what happens.

 

[decades80]

Tahnk you all. I have to do it by hand, I have 5 accounts with above and I want this particular domain just to migrate between IT and Voodoo. Now feel free to continue discussion about Maximizer

 

[Hypersot]

Tahnk you all. I have to do it by hand, I have 5 accounts with above and I want this particular domain just to migrate between IT and Voodoo. Now feel free to continue discussion about Maximizer

I'm actually very interested to find out what do you think about the original post's subject.

Is there really something happening when domains get idle for a long time? do we need to move them about every now and then, and why?

Also,

since you mentioned you're going to do it by hand, are you going to do some more testing?

 

[decades80]

I'm actually very interested to find out what do you think about the original post's subject.

Is there really something happening when domains get idle for a long time? do we need to move them about every now and then, and why?

Also,

since you mentioned you're going to do it by hand, are you going to do some more testing?

Perhaps. I m just monitoring the domains which make 10+ per month and some small percentage has to be moved each 2-3 days. Majority is steady and thats fine. I use the optimization approx. 1 month on 1 platform, BUT when there are certain keywords in them or lets say high paying keywords I know where to park them coming from experiences. Ive noticed on approx. 10 domains when moved they immediately get clicks and than nothing for several days. Above algorithm is purely statistical. I mean they would move your steady earner, even when there is a week rest period. This I dont like. But it seems on some domains like 5-10 % moving is the only option. I just dont know what are their common intervals (above"s). Maybe the option is to set those 5% on above servers. But again, some have to be moved between IT and Voodoo, some between PC and Voodoo and so on. So I guess setting above servers is pretty useless.

I guess I will have even days for moving. 2 days should be just fine.

 

[Hypersot]

Perhaps. I m just monitoring the domains which make 10+ per month and some small percentage has to be moved each 2-3 days. Majority is steady and thats fine. I use the optimization approx. 1 month on 1 platform, BUT when there are certain keywords in them or lets say high paying keywords I know where to park them coming from experiences. Ive noticed on approx. 10 domains when moved they immediately get clicks and than nothing for several days. Above algorithm is purely statistical. I mean they would move your steady earner, even when there is a week rest period. This I dont like. But it seems on some domains like 5-10 % moving is the only option. I just dont know what are their common intervals (above"s). Maybe the option is to set those 5% on above servers. But again, some have to be moved between IT and Voodoo, some between PC and Voodoo and so on. So I guess setting above servers is pretty useless.

I guess I will have even days for moving. 2 days should be just fine.

Question is, why do they even need to be moved to show traffic and/or clicks?

You mentioned some reasons behind this in the thread but that was only speculation.

What interests me is, if anyone knows for a fact that this happens and for what reason.

Maybe what you and I observed is only a coincidence or another more technical reason