Our 48 hour revenue update is clearly marked on every stats page with a big red exclamation mark next to it. It is naturally possible that people overlook this, but in many instances, revenue can jump massively after we receive the revenue update from Google.
We have found that our average US CPC is significantly above the generic stats we show for the first 24-48 hours. It is naturally possible that the actual CPC drops after the revenue update, but we have chosen modest generic CPCs in the hope that the earnings will only increase once the earnings are updated.
emgage - It's been more than 48 hours since you first posted this, so I'm sure you will be able to see on your account whether you are still receiving 11 cent generic clicks or if the clicks have been updated to their real click value. Clicking on 'daily stats' lets you see your portfolio performance day by day. The grey date is the last updated day.
Greggish, I think it's worth pointing out that you only tried our service for four days in September, three of which were at a time when we were hit by a massive DDOS attack. We then had to set earnings as we felt was fairest, based on very little data. While you are perfectly entitled to your opinion, I think your post is a harsh assessment of our service under the circumstances.
One thing you do not mention is that, to apologise for the confusion, we actually paid you out the amount that you felt you had earned in full.
I can appreicate that your first experience of us wasn't a particularly good one, but that was 6 months ago when we were just 2 weeks into the market.
The revenue update has been a constant topic of conversation on here and we have stressed time and again that we have chosen modest generic CPCs before the update so that, wherever possible, the stats will go up after the update. This is obviously not always the case, but we feel that NameDrive most clearly represents exaclty what your domains are earning with Google. We do not set generic PPCs per keyword as other companies do, meaning we do pay low for some keywords, but we pay higher, real earnings from Google for good-performance names.
Having said this, I am perfectly aware that we can't be friends of everybody and several people are not fans of our revenue update. Each parking company has their own idiosyncracies. We do not do this to confuse or mislead. As I say, in the vast majority of cases, the actual revenue is higher than the generic click price. We update the generic clicks as fast as we humanly can to show the exact earnings data from Google.
Ed