BODIS

[matt_bodis]

Bodis.com

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Former topic:

• The New REVOLUTION in Domain Parking is HERE! - Bodis.com

 

[somekindofajenny]

If you guys park 1 or 2 domains you will have problems everywhere. Put like 100 and the RPM swings will go away. I have been very steady on all my RPM for all parking companies once my portfolio grew.

 

[wolfis.com]

If you guys park 1 or 2 domains you will have problems everywhere. Put like 100 and the RPM swings will go away. I have been very steady on all my RPM for all parking companies once my portfolio grew.

give me a break - bodis has at the moment problems - matt posted a few posts ago that he implements as better filter to raise the RPM - and i am quite sure there is a problem with it.

i have approx 30 domains there and my rpm is somewhat steady ,however in the past 2 days many visits are simply not counted .

example : 0 visits 0 RPM Revenue 0.27

another : 0 visits 0 RPM Revenue 0.16

first of all this is actually impossible ( but no big deal ) and secondly it more or less proofs that the visitor counts are not posted correctly.

and to put rumors to rest i may remark that both domains are type ins and that this account has xxxx visits per day.

 

[TestCase]

I think RPM is "Revenue Per thousand impressions".
So, you have 9 cents for one visitor and assume one visitor is one impression.

1 impression = $.09
10 impression = $.90
100 impression = $9
1,000 (1M) impressions = $90

Thus, you get RPM = $90.

To add to what Cooper has said, RPM is an extrapolated number that provides you with a common/standard benchmark for measuring overall results. Since each click's earnings will vary and not all visitor will click on an ad, RPM suggests what your average results will be in the long run per 1k visitors. It's not an end-all-be-all number, but it is just one more tool that can be used for making any number of decisions regarding your domain(s).

 

[matt_bodis]

Last night I implemented new system that can count visitors on a second server. And that server is a bit delayed. The visitor numbers will catch up in next few hours.

And about the revenue being down? Good question. I don't see revenue being down on a network level, especially for a Thursday & Friday. But, it could be due to ads being now in JavaScript, amongst a few other things. I'll have another update on Sunday/Monday, and we'll compare then.

 

[drewd]

Is it possible to forward domains to bodis instead of changing nameservers?

Changing nameservers is a very time consuming process when we want to test hundreds of domains.

We can redirect domains to parked, fabulous, domainsponsor, sedo, namedrive and all other parking providers so I hope we can do that to Bodis as well.

Anyone knows?

 

[matt_bodis]

Yes, you have 3 options for pointing your domain names to Bodis.

Option #1, Name Servers:

NS1.BODIS.COM
NS2.BODIS.COM

Option #2, URL Forwarding:

http://bodisparking.com/yourdomainname.com

(Replace yourdomainname.com with your actual domain name)


Option #3, pointing to our IP addresses:

208.75.250.50 (NS1)
208.75.250.51 (NS2)

I recommend option #1 or #2.

 

[firefly]

I sometimes feel like I'm in the worst kind of poker hand...where you have so much time and money in the pot you can't afford to fold...the chances of winning are slim, but there's a little glimmer of promise and hope that helps keep you in the game (the much anticipated new provider, new templates and sales link).

I like the analogy and I feel the same way some days. Setbacks of any description are disappointing and I often find myself wondering if I should bother, and not just with Bodis but with the whole industry in general.

Finally, I wish I had domains getting thousands of visits, but I don't. Sinc I don't, I don't understand the importance of RPM. If someone could explain how it helps me to know how a domain with (now) one visitor and 9 cents daily revenue has an RPM of $90, I'd love to hear it.

You and me both. I would love to have names that get that sort of traffic. I agree with your view on the RPM...especially when you don't have those numbers of visitors. It's like saying this is what you would earn if you had decent traffic...lol...just a big tease. . I'm hoping that when the new provider goes live (whoever it is) that we can get some sort of CPC figures. I know it isn't going to improve what I earn but it is something a little more solid to make decisions on names with. That's just my opinion though.

give me a break - bodis has at the moment problems - matt posted a few posts ago that he implements as better filter to raise the RPM - and i am quite sure there is a problem with it.

Yeah...hopefully Matt seems to be getting this under control. Once again...frustrating, especially with some of the numbers you are used to seeing (I wish lol).

I have to say, I am pinning my hopes on the new feed and landers because quite honestly everywhere else at the moment seems to be struggling in terms of earnings. In the immortal words of Kenny Rogers (lmao)..."You gotta know when to hold em', know when to fold em', know when to walk away and know when to run".

I'm close to folding and walking away. If it doesn't improve sooner rather than later, that walk will become a run from domaining entirely.

 

[matt_bodis]

I don't think anyone should walk away from this industry first of all, especially you - you have a few decent domain names.

RPM is just a calculation. I believe standard Adsense gives you CPM. That is essentially the same thing. It gives you an idea of how your earnings are doing compared to the number of visitors you have. Over time, if your visitors increase, you can look at the RPM to see if you are earning more per visitor on average, or less. This can give you an idea if the Bodis earnings are better or worse over a period of time. It's like a statistical graph in text format, rather than in image format.

Not a tease. Industry standard for RPM is the revenue you'd get for every 1000 visitors (some use impressions). Technically, it could've been based on 100 visitors, 10,000 visitors, any number of visitors, but 1000 is just a standard. Just like inches, centimeters, miles, kilometers, etc. They all have a specified length as the standard.

So if you RPM is $90, it would tell you that based on your current earnings for the current amount of visitors you'd have, you'd earn $90 if you'd have 1000 of those visitors. If you have a portfolio that has had 100 visitors a day a year ago, and now has 300 visitors a day, it'd be hard to see if you are earning more per visitor than before without the RPM or CPM. So now you can easily look back a year ago at the RPM, compare to the RPM today, and see if you are earning more or less per visitor.

So let's do an example, a year ago your portfolio had 100 visitors, and brought in $30 a day.

2008:
100 visitors
$30/day
RPM = ($30*1000 ) / 100 visitors = $300


Now in 2009, your portfolio brings in:

2009:
300 visitors
$60/day
RPM = ($60*1000) / 300 visitors = $200


As you can see, even though you bring in more earnings in 2009, your RPM is actually lower since you are earning less per visitor.


Edit:
The visitor numbers should now be updated correctly.

 

[BeachBumNY]

From 9/23/09:

Wednesday of the upcoming week.

Only new template + inquiry system for now.

Any progress on the inquiry system????

 

[jeffoverman]

Numbers seem to be back up yesterday, the 23rd so that's good. Hope it can continue.

I'm more worried on future feed and really hope templates are better and better images, layout.

I'm happy for most part here and will see what things happen but will say this, the smaller feeds are hungry for business and probably will work with parking companies easier to win there business.

Hope things play out well for bodis and for us. Only time Will tell and Matt has done various tests and experiements by sounds of things. Hope we see what he is seeing behind closed doors.

 

[umxca]

In the last week I have noticed a dramatic increase.

Visitors are up, RPM is up, On my way to my best month

Lookin good Matt!

 

[wolfis.com]

yes - have to agree - things looking better right now.

 

[jeffoverman]

Things holding at my end as well.

 

[firefly]

Hey Matt..just wondering where you are at with the new feed and templates after the problems you encountered just a while ago with the ddos attack?

 

[matt_bodis]

Still waiting on upstream. Things are taking a bit longer than expected.

I'll have the templates/inquiry system live about a week after we go live with new upstream.

 

[verbster]

Since Sept. 20th, my visitors have dropped dramatically and my earnings are down, even though I didn't think they could go any lower.

Domains that had a normal 10-40 visitors per day and $.40 - $2.00 per day are now 0-2 visits per day and $0 - $.30 per day.

I truly don't understand the "filtering" system and how visits and clicks are counted. Are vists and clicks to domains still happening, but just not counted in stats? I sure hope not. In any case, I'm going to move my domains that used to have traffic out to a couple other parking systems that track uniques and see how they now compare. There's nothing to lose while waiting for the long awaited provider and features.

 

[matt_bodis]

September 20th or October 20th?

We track visitors now through JavaScript, amongst a few EXTRA internal things we look at that are minor but important.

99.7% of desktop visitors have JS enabled, so that should not cause anything VALID to drop by more than 0.3%, which is very small.

Before we did this, anything that would hit our server would count as a visitor. Even if some third-party site would link an image on your domain, or even an image that no longer exists, it'd get counted as a visitor.

Now since we track through JavaScript, it functions differently. An actual visitor must LAND on the page itself, and have JS enabled on his/her browser. There was no perfect way of doing it without JavaScript tracking.

But your revenue dropping is peculiar. Can you please send me the domain names that had a drop in visitors / revenue via PM?

I can assure you, last few days have been some of our best days EVER. RPM is steady, and we are growing. So I don't think there is a problem. I have portfolios of my own without signs of a problem.

But, everyone's account is different. So to make sure there is nothing wrong, please PM me the top domains that have a revenue drop and I will take a look at them.

 

[Makis.TV]

i just send you a pm about a type in domain i have that has reduced revenue and traffic for more than 200% each.

 

[jeffoverman]

Going be a record day so far and gave couple more hours to end the day. Hope it continues over Matt, thanks.

Yesterday revenue was a bit soft so I'm happier today. Ups and downs.

Could be doing a lot better with a low rpm and hope new images and templates will help me. But its going be a record month on 2 names and getting excited going forward.

 

[firefly]

Going be a record day so far and gave couple more hours to end the day. Hope it continues over Matt, thanks.

Yesterday revenue was a bit soft so I'm happier today. Ups and downs.

Could be doing a lot better with a low rpm and hope new images and templates will help me. But its going be a record month on 2 names and getting excited going forward.

Meh...I'm hoping that the new feed and landers take me back to Feburary of this year when my RPM was $100+ portfolio wide. At the moment its about a quater of that overall for me but I understand that this is large part due to the feed providers. So I'm not setting any records here yet...lol.



Hanging on and hoping.