How Honest Do You Think Parking Companies Are?

[DOMiNIC]

How Honest Do You Think Parking Companies Are? We here a lot of talk about PPC fraud, but we have no way of telling wether our parked domains are also fraud victims of the parking companies.

 

[JMJ]

That all depends on how you want to look at it. Google for example publicly states they shave 25% I think it is of the clicks as a whole to compensate the advertiser for fraud clicks. The parking programs probably do about the same since most of them use these programs. Although they might be doing a bit of shaving/compensating themselves. Now they are honest with that fact but it makes a fine line of honest reporting on revenues for the honest webmaster.

 

[SpareDomains]

Well if the parking company is shaving and google states they shave then I guess you would be getting double shaved. :hehe: I personally am taking all the domains I think have any long term value and having mini sites thrown on them as that involves only me and google no middleman. The domains that I will let drop or sell cheap I am leaving parked. I personally think that mini sites are the way to go and the small investment will pay itself back ten fold and eliminate a middleman in my profits.

 

[Refrozen]

That all depends on how you want to look at it. Google for example publicly states they shave 25% I think it is of the clicks as a whole to compensate the advertiser for fraud clicks. The parking programs probably do about the same since most of them use these programs. Although they might be doing a bit of shaving/compensating themselves. Now they are honest with that fact but it makes a fine line of honest reporting on revenues for the honest webmaster.

They don't actually remove 25% of the clicks do they? They just lower the CPC by 25%?

 

[Ray]

idk... it all depends in the company... Ive had some bad experiences with a few, i use sedo once and a while, but there rates are a little too high for my standards, so i tend to use mini sites

 

[JMJ]

They don't actually remove 25% of the clicks do they? They just lower the CPC by 25%?

Is there a difference between the two? In my book it equals 25% reduction in income to an honest name owner either way.