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on my side, backend and domains are down 
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Really need your help 'Matt.
Sending you another PM. Please kindly check.
Sending you another PM. Please kindly check.
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Hey congrats teguh123. That's great income. What's your secret? Err.. how many domains does it take to produce that much income? What do you think about keywords? Do you use them? what do you think of Matt's comments that the are pretty much useless?
Well it went down to normal $136/day again. Hiks.
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It's still great. But I see you don't want to answer any questions on how you do it
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Well sometimes there are days, weeks, or months where it hits lows. But typically it recovers. I see all time high right now, but then again that is across the board so it is hard to say.
Usually we only get feedback from users that see a drop in revenue. We rarely get a user notify me or support because their revenue is too high.
One of the challenges is that our upstream provider tunes algorithms on what ads to match to the domain. And furthermore, to complicate the situation, it is all based on country and each country may have a different department that tunes it based on their knowledge.
So sometimes there are months where CTR is low but CPC is high. Other months, CPC is low, CTR is high. They also average conversion into the equation, and ofcourse they tune across the board, that means one portfolio may go down 20%, another may be up 30%. These numbers are exaggerations, but sometimes a 2% increase across the board might mean a 50% decrease on some user's portfolio.
And to top it off, I have no access to any of this, and do not get ANY updates.
A few months ago our upstream provider has made an update once where USA advertisers that opt in to advertise "globally" would no longer show up in China. That day and to present, the Chinese revenue dropped 20-30%. I didn't know about it. I asked my upstream provider, even they didn't know about it. With a workforce of I think over 20,000, it is pretty hard for everyone in the company to know what is going on as the changes again are made network wide and sometimes targeted to perhaps improve the content site revenue, but at the same time that same change may lower domain parking revenue.
I don't know the internals but this is all based on what I learn and see, and read between the lines.
Another issue to look at is visitors. We are not responsible for increasing or maintaining visitors. Most portfolios if not all always drop in visitors as the domains become less relevant over time (if they are some mis type, expired traffic, etc). So if your visitors dropped 20%, it is expected for revenue to also drop.
The good news is that it is not as bad as it sounds. Mostly there are weeks that are bad, and then they eventually get back to being good, and it is an ongoing cycle that never ends.
I just added 2 new second tier providers which I think will help increase revenue. My mission is to continue to increase revenue. The more my users make, the more successful Bodis, and the happier I am.
I like to go to sleep at night knowing my users are happy and not complaining. And that is what gives me the most satisfaction. So I do what I can do make sure that is the case.
Any suggestions are welcome! :tu:
Usually we only get feedback from users that see a drop in revenue. We rarely get a user notify me or support because their revenue is too high.
One of the challenges is that our upstream provider tunes algorithms on what ads to match to the domain. And furthermore, to complicate the situation, it is all based on country and each country may have a different department that tunes it based on their knowledge.
So sometimes there are months where CTR is low but CPC is high. Other months, CPC is low, CTR is high. They also average conversion into the equation, and ofcourse they tune across the board, that means one portfolio may go down 20%, another may be up 30%. These numbers are exaggerations, but sometimes a 2% increase across the board might mean a 50% decrease on some user's portfolio.
And to top it off, I have no access to any of this, and do not get ANY updates.
A few months ago our upstream provider has made an update once where USA advertisers that opt in to advertise "globally" would no longer show up in China. That day and to present, the Chinese revenue dropped 20-30%. I didn't know about it. I asked my upstream provider, even they didn't know about it. With a workforce of I think over 20,000, it is pretty hard for everyone in the company to know what is going on as the changes again are made network wide and sometimes targeted to perhaps improve the content site revenue, but at the same time that same change may lower domain parking revenue.
I don't know the internals but this is all based on what I learn and see, and read between the lines.
Another issue to look at is visitors. We are not responsible for increasing or maintaining visitors. Most portfolios if not all always drop in visitors as the domains become less relevant over time (if they are some mis type, expired traffic, etc). So if your visitors dropped 20%, it is expected for revenue to also drop.
The good news is that it is not as bad as it sounds. Mostly there are weeks that are bad, and then they eventually get back to being good, and it is an ongoing cycle that never ends.
I just added 2 new second tier providers which I think will help increase revenue. My mission is to continue to increase revenue. The more my users make, the more successful Bodis, and the happier I am.
I like to go to sleep at night knowing my users are happy and not complaining. And that is what gives me the most satisfaction. So I do what I can do make sure that is the case.
Any suggestions are welcome! :tu:
Matt - I'm sure everyone appreciates all your hard work on behalf of the Bodis community. I certainly do.
But my drop in revenue really seems to have started with the introduction of the new templates. CTR is down. If I could have the old templates back for all my domains I think CTR would improve.
But my drop in revenue really seems to have started with the introduction of the new templates. CTR is down. If I could have the old templates back for all my domains I think CTR would improve.
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i noticed that several of the bodis landers seem to load forever and evenso it shows a lander ( or part of ) - firefox still tries to continue to load and does not finish.
so i tied to visit the same side with a second machine and a different browser a minute later and it does to domainpark.
very simple question - do we and if yes get paid correctly and where does it show which system paid.( shows what income is from where - or do we have to blindly trust that everything is added ?)
i am just asking as i try to figure out why all of my domains seem to get blocked by google or why they all making only a fraction of what they made 2 months ago.
i do understand the up and down curve of the revenue - afterall i parked domains for the past 10 years or so ( first month when sedo started the paid parking )
but it just appears that it is a road of no return at the "bodis revenue slide" and i am trying to figure out what is going on.
so i tied to visit the same side with a second machine and a different browser a minute later and it does to domainpark.
very simple question - do we and if yes get paid correctly and where does it show which system paid.( shows what income is from where - or do we have to blindly trust that everything is added ?)
i am just asking as i try to figure out why all of my domains seem to get blocked by google or why they all making only a fraction of what they made 2 months ago.
i do understand the up and down curve of the revenue - afterall i parked domains for the past 10 years or so ( first month when sedo started the paid parking )
but it just appears that it is a road of no return at the "bodis revenue slide" and i am trying to figure out what is going on.
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Oct & Nov 2011 were my best parking months ever, in about 5 years of parking. 50% comes from Bodis.
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