Fabulous PPC Far Superior to Sedo's: A Man's Experience

[drmaximus]

Just wanted to share this especially with domain newbies. I was with Sedo's PPC (sedo.co.uk) from December 2003 - mid July 2004 and earned a puny 4.63 Euros total during those 8.5 months. I moved over to Fabulous (fabulous.com) and brought along my entire portfolio of domains, and have earned US$13.99 to date from mid-July 2004 (5 weeks).

In my experience, Sedo clicks do not usually earn above 0.08 euros each whereas Fabulous' PPC rates average about US$0.22. I have had on numerous occasions rates above US$0.40 and even US$0.92. More importantly, it appears that I have a lot more click throughs on Fabulous.

Sedo's advantages:
very easy to forward domains to Sedo's PPC eg. through CPanel
very well designed site and extremely user-friendly

Sedo's disadvantages:
very low PPC rates
high commissions on domain sales

Fabulous' advantages:
one of the best and swiftest customer service that I know of
high PPC rates
zero commission on domain sales

Fabulous' disadvantages:
need to use Fabulous' name servers which means that there could be a 24-48hrs disruption between DNS changes

Note: I do not earn PPC's through this appraisal of Fabulous' services but if you must you could send me a donation by clicking here! :tu:

 

[Domainut]

Or it could be an increase in comission, to make up for the drop in bids after christmas. If u check overture many bids have dropped drastically after the holidays.

 

[Fabulous.com]

Hi 1rrr1, armstrong and drmaximus,

Thanks for your observations and queries regarding Fabulous.com. Let me try to answer them if I can...

Firstly 1rrr1...

It seems like fabulous is better than dh or sedo. Can some1 tell me whether they accept taiwanese traffic?

At this point in time we do accept Taiwanese traffic although this may be subject to review.

Next armstrong

Today, one of my domains at fabulous had this data for the day:

Clicks = 1
Earnings / Click = 0.51¢

If revenue sharing is 75%, then this means that the one click above was worth 0.68¢ to the advertiser. problem is, I don't know any PPC scheme that lets advertisers pay less than 1 cent per click. Does this mean that Fabulous has me on a 50% payout scheme? This would work out to advertiser cost of about 1 cent per click for the above example.

Fabulous revenue share is based on revenue that we receive either from our own listings in ROAR/pageseeker or a revenue share from our 3rd party PPC suppliers - and this revenue share percentage can vary from supplier to supplier.

In the case of a ROAR/pageseeker listing you would receive 75% of the total bid by the advertiser.

In the case of a third party PPC feed you would receive 75% of the revenue that we receive from the third party supplier so you receive a percentage of a percentage.

Hope that makes sense.

Lastly drmaximus...

With this info, you should at least do as well at Fab as you will at Afternic. In the past I would have said, "GO for FAB", but with dismal March figures, I cannot answer as enthusiastically.

Thanks for your support and the many positive postings that you have given Fabulous in the past.

I've had a look at your account as your earnings did seem somewhat volatile.

On initial investigation (I only went back to the beginning of this year) it would appear that you get the majority of your revenue from one .org domain.

Looking at the referrals for this domain shows that you get a significant amount of traffic from Google SERPS (possibly residual traffic from a former incarnation of the domain) rather than from type ins. I would suggest that the sudden rise and subsequent decline in revenue is based on this domain's ranking in the Google SERPS for various keyword terms which has probably changed during their index updates.

All your other domains seem to have fairly consistent month on month traffic and this is the only exception that I could find.

Feel free to email me directly I you would like me to go through things with you.

Cheers

Andrew
[email protected]

 

[CrazyTech]

After reading through this thread, I'll definitely take a look at Fab. I've been looking for a company with lower commissions and I may have found that place.

 

[armstrong]

Thanks Andrew for that logical explanation. :tu:

 

[robertjr]

Thanks Andrew for that logical explanation. :tu:

Yeh!

That was cool & and nice to see from Fab.

 

[drmaximus]

I will have to go learn about what SERPS is exactly! But thanks for the suggestion of what's happening.

 

[Fabulous.com]

I will have to go learn about what SERPS is exactly! But thanks for the suggestion of what's happening.

Hi drmaximus,

Sorry - it's easy to lapse into jargon. SERP's = Seatch Engine Results Pages. Basically the results that you get when you type in a search query.

Hope that helps.


Andrew
[email protected]

 

[Ferman]

I have moved from sedo to fabulous.

Fabulous Customer Support is excellent. They make you feel that they care about you. They answer all your questions in a few hours. I feel better when i know who i am talking to, it makes me feel there is a friend who wants to help me, not only a customer represantative

Fabulous clicks make more money than Sedo
Sedo s clicks make 0.03 to 0.10 generally
Fabulous s clicks make 0.22 to 0.40 generally

Fabulous domain statistics script works perfect. You see where the traffic is coming from and you see if the search engine spiders visited your site lately

you get a wholesale domain registration account, the cheapest i have ever used

Fabulous is fabulous !

Regards,
Ferman

 

[drmaximus]

Update: February 2005 Fabulous.com Stats

$217.06 Earnings
43997 Impressions
3852 Uniques
798 Clicks

Update: March 2005 Fabulous.com Stats

$55.22 Earnings (-75%)
30322 Impressions (-31%)
2509 Uniques (-35%)
311 Clicks (-61%)

As promised, here are the March statistics, which suggest that the fall in earnings greatly outweighs the fall in uniques and clicks. I can only think of two reasons: fall in the $/click ratio or increase in commission held. This holds true even if my traffic has fallen, SERPS or not. Quite disappointing.

 

[Domainut]

If any of you guys are interested in reporting your stats at ParkingIncome.com let me know. We have quite a few domainers reporting now, and stats are really starting to show which keywords do better at which service.