Can I get your 2 cents? Decent traffic, not converting

[gr8wolf99]

Im currently using whypark for my small amount of parked domains..

I feel that im not getting something out of it.
one domain has a 120v/month with 0 rev every month.

I do absolutly nothing for these domains. I just park them, put in some keywords, and check it out a month later. Iv looked around on here and haven't found a solid method of something to do to help parked names.

im using the free version,
should i check out another parking site, (any suggestions over whypark?)

are these stats looking right or am i doing something wrong? (past 30 days)
414visits
778 page views
153 searches
39 clicks
$0.01 RPC
9.42% CTR
$0.58 Rev

anybody who can throw me a bone, it would be greatly appreciated! thanks

 

[AWRosey]

Hi:

Without knowing the domains, it will be real difficult to help. However, the first thing that catches my eye is the $0.01 RPC. While I have experienced lower CTR's with Whypark and other parking companies, I am monetizing sites here that got no traffic or clicks previously, so a lower CTR is to be expected. However, my RPC is through the roof when compared to the other parking alternatives. I assume that that is because the related searches are better defined.

Your RPC of $0.01 says one of two things to me. 1) your search terms do not have demand, therefore low prices are being paid, or 2) your sites are banned by Yahoo, requiring second tier ads with lower RPC. Without knowing the domains, I can't tell you for sure.

Additionally, I have found that allowing your sites to "age" for a couple of months allows them to perform better in the search engines. Domains that I parked at WP two months ago, are just starting to realize good paying clicks now after they had a chance to "age" and I had a chance to dial in the search terms.

I don't believe that just throwing up sites and leaving them alone is going to work any better than you are getting now. If that is what you want to do, maybe you would be better served by a traditional parking company.

Just my $0.02

Alan

Im currently using whypark for my small amount of parked domains..

I feel that im not getting something out of it.
one domain has a 120v/month with 0 rev every month.

I do absolutly nothing for these domains. I just park them, put in some keywords, and check it out a month later. Iv looked around on here and haven't found a solid method of something to do to help parked names.

im using the free version,
should i check out another parking site, (any suggestions over whypark?)

are these stats looking right or am i doing something wrong? (past 30 days)
414visits
778 page views
153 searches
39 clicks
$0.01 RPC
9.42% CTR
$0.58 Rev

anybody who can throw me a bone, it would be greatly appreciated! thanks

 

[gr8wolf99]

Hi:

Without knowing the domains, it will be real difficult to help. However, the first thing that catches my eye is the $0.01 RPC. While I have experienced lower CTR's with Whypark and other parking companies, I am monetizing sites here that got no traffic or clicks previously, so a lower CTR is to be expected. However, my RPC is through the roof when compared to the other parking alternatives. I assume that that is because the related searches are better defined.

Your RPC of $0.01 says one of two things to me. 1) your search terms do not have demand, therefore low prices are being paid, or 2) your sites are banned by Yahoo, requiring second tier ads with lower RPC. Without knowing the domains, I can't tell you for sure.

Additionally, I have found that allowing your sites to "age" for a couple of months allows them to perform better in the search engines. Domains that I parked at WP two months ago, are just starting to realize good paying clicks now after they had a chance to "age" and I had a chance to dial in the search terms

thank you for the reply,

Names (low RPC)
these are some with alright traffic, a couple clicks, but all 1 cent clicks.

eroticartoonist.com - 89uv 8click $0.07 rev. (adult anime)
the next 4 are 5 character pronouncable names. i believe the traffic is coming looking for a proxy, because last year i had porxies on these names. should i use other keywords other than proxies? such as the more common things people are looking for with proxies? or would that just stop any clicks all together. the top one here has 120uv, 18 clicks, $0.23. (proxy keywords)

this name i regg'd new and added a month ago, grundycountyjobs.com
stats are 9uv, 3 clicks. a much better rate, with 13 cent rev on those 3 clicks. isnt that very low as well though? rpc only 4 cents. im assuming im using the wrong keywords?

by allowing them to age, you mean, finding the right keywords, using many whypark articles, and leaving them alone for a long period of time? (thats what im assuming you mean, from what i have read around here.) please correct me if im wrong.

I don't believe that just throwing up sites and leaving them alone is going to work any better than you are getting now. If that is what you want to do, maybe you would be better served by a traditional parking company.

thats not what i want to do, its generally all i know right now. i would love to learn a better way. Iv got pleanty of time, just need some direction.

 

[blaknite]

I can toss in my two cents here...

The first name is a great name for the right kind of website. Probably not a whypark site, but something a bit more graphical in nature. Perhaps sell that one to an actual cartoonist who wants to start a blog that is a bit on the grown up side. The reality here is that with the exception of some very specific keywords that indicate the prospective purchase of a high value product, domains that aren't kid approprate will never get back to a much higher cpc than $.07 There is just so much of that adult stuff on the web that advertisers don't need to pay more than that to get all the traffic they could ever want. Remember that as a domainer the viewers are our product and the advertisers are our buyers. Too many viewers drives down the price. If a store has enough pillows in stock to not sell them all in a hundred years, there is going to be a sale on pillows. Its inevitable.

For the second group the proxy domains you're up against a different wall. Think about what the people who visit your domains are looking for. Are they going to buy anything from you or your advertisers? A visitor is a visitor and that has some intrinsic value, but not much if you don't know anything about your visitor. Proxy traffic is like the thrift store of the internet. There is lots of stuff to sort through and plenty of hidden gems to find, but you have to sort and wash everything before its of any real value. Even then there is going to be tons of worthless trash. Instead of leading people who are looking for a proxy to a page that doesn't have what they need, give them a proxy. That is what they are looking for. If they're using your proxy to visit myspace or youtube, give them ads that relate to myspace and youtube. If they are looking at adult stuff give them adult ads.

The best thing you can do with a proxy is to run your own ads instead of your competitors. Run a few ads for your other money making sites on your proxy and draw the people who are interested in the sites away from the proxy into your money earners. Presumably a click on a better site will get you more than a click from a proxy. You just have to make sure the person visiting was interested in your other site. (you can't just dump all the proxy traffic into one site about one topic.) you need to sort, wash and resell the traffic. Call it internet recycling.

While its a different wall you are up against with the proxy traffic, the end result is the same as with the adult traffic. Advertisers know how likely that traffic is to convert to a sale for them. Its also available by the ton. The combination of the two means that they won't and don't have to pay much to get that traffic.

For the third name, the one about ? county jobs, I'd say the first responders advise was spot on. The name represents a group of people who are all in one category looking for one thing. This is a prime targeted audience for anyone who can sell a product that whole group can use. The only reason you are getting $.04 per click instead of $1.00 per click is because you have not established to the advertisers that what you have to sell is genuine, valuable, and will convert. You sold four clicks last month and whomever bought those clicks probably was able to see a glympse of whether or not they could use the traffic you sent them. That glympse is probably not enough to tell whether they should bid more for your traffic. They also will not bid more as long as nobody else is after your traffic. What you need here is to have more traffic of the same quality and to spread it around the advertiser pool. Once enough advertisers (sharks) get a wiff of it, they will come and start fighting over the bait. All this one needs is a healthy balance of link building, article writing, and time.

 

[gr8wolf99]

Thank you very much for the great read! +rep.

as you said, I am currently debating what to do with the adult names, i have both versions... "Eroticartoonist.com and EroticCartoonist.com" (one C / two Cs)
wouldnt this increase the value for selling these names, having both common versions?

As for the proxy, Im thinking about selling this name as well; Im not interested in making a proxy site again, for me, the cost to run is always greater than profiting. maybe i was doing something wrong, but I do know that I dont have the money to try it again. Its expiring this month, and i suppose i will renew it and sit on it for a while longer, as it is making more in a year than it is costing to renew. I will try to switch up the keywords and see what I can get. maybe change it to all the social networking ads or something.

GrundyCountyJobs.com was a fresh reg for me, and I have really not done anything except research before buying, finding its a county in 4 different states with decent sized populations. I will start link building shortly, but really to be honest I dont have a clue what I am doing with that!
"All this one needs is a healthy balance of link building, article writing, and time. " this piece of information is very direct, and I will begin looking up ways to do this. Hopefully I can find success in a name I regg'd for once. (reg since 7/28/09)

thank you very much for the advice, To everyone else, yes, I would still appreciate your two cents here!