Buyer's remorse

[Oriole]

Helllo folks,


Back in May I decided to purchase my first domain from a Sedo auction. Everything was great til about the end of June. Uniques and clicks averaged to about 70/30 and then dropped to single digits. I know that Sedo says that traffic stats could be manipulated so my first inclination was that someone was inflating the stats and then stopped pushing traffic to the domain. However, from what I've been reading, the summer months tend to be slow for everyone. Should I chalk this up to a general slowdown or does it look like I was duped? Anyone else have a case like this?


Oriole

 

[RCK]

It happens. You can manipulate stats in many ways. The summermonths can also be the reason that the traffic stats are dropping.

 

[Kaleidozone]

In May and June my parking revenue dropped at Sedo; March and April were great. But, towards the very end of June (last week) it started picking up and looking at my revenue from just this morning it looks like July will be better. I too have heard that the summer months tend to be slow.

I think Sedo is pretty good about monitoring stat cheaters, but there's always the chance it happened, especially if there was a sudden drastic drop for you. It is summer though, so I'd monitor the domain and where the traffic is coming from and also did you change anything about the domain; keywords, etc.?

 

[Ringtonebro]

You can always contact Sedo if you want to buy a domain and want confirmation that the traffic is legit.

 

[pwr1019]

From a 70 average to single digits is not a summer slowdown - I would contact Sedo ASAP and ask them to investigate.
Good Luck

 

[Kate]

Sedo should provide more comprehensive stats. It really helps to optimize domains.
You can still host the names yourself and do a forwarding to Sedo so you will have a raw apache log to examine.

 

[floatingworld]

a sixth sense should (hopefully) warn you if there is a discrepancy between apparent traffic and the perceived value of the name in its stand-alone state. Probably it is not a good idea to purchase a 'pure' traffic domain.

 

[DnPresident]

a sixth sense should (hopefully) warn you if there is a discrepancy between apparent traffic and the perceived value of the name in its stand-alone state. Probably it is not a good idea to purchase a 'pure' traffic domain.

That's my belief as well, traffic is much better when combined with a good name rather than buying fjgmoretraffic.com that claims to have 300 uniques per month.

 

[fatter]

Helllo folks,


Back in May I decided to purchase my first domain from a Sedo auction. Everything was great til about the end of June. Uniques and clicks averaged to about 70/30 and then dropped to single digits. I know that Sedo says that traffic stats could be manipulated so my first inclination was that someone was inflating the stats and then stopped pushing traffic to the domain. However, from what I've been reading, the summer months tend to be slow for everyone. Should I chalk this up to a general slowdown or does it look like I was duped? Anyone else have a case like this?

Oriole

Is that 70/30 a day or month, if its a month then it would mean little because
some names do well in seo for a while even better than this and drop off later, if its a day that is a fairly high traffic name so it may have been a previous website where links naturally drop off, and there is also the possibility seller fudged the stats, but usually they dont click on there own links because it will result in banning, although some people do.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Check the archive.org for the site - if it was previously developed, then parked, then the traffic will naturally die off after the content is removed.

If the domain fits the "type-in" or "natural" traffic form, then the sudden drop-off could be a summer issue, or something more malicious.

-Allan :gl: