-RJ- said:
At the moment I'm trying out both Parked.com and Klickerz.com. Parked has beautiful looking parked pages which seem to produce an above average CTR. They also let you customize the color scheme and targeting keywords to an extent. Downside is the revenue per click seems a little low. But slightly more clicks balances out the slightly lower per click payouts.
Klickerz I've only been with for a couple days. Targetting seems a little off so far (I'm hoping this will correct itself), but the per click revenue is looking good. It's interesting using these two companies together because I think both are serving Yahoo ads yet they are setup quite differently.
Never had success with Sedo parking. Have not tried SedoPro or NameDrive so cannot comment on those. I'm starting to believe that certain names do better with certain services. I'm currently splitting my portfolio between four parking providers now. There isn't one provider that does best for all names.
RJ
Glad to see you you've trusted us with a decent amount of traffic, Ron. A lot of folks will park a couple of names or maybe send over a selection of their WORST. Then when they don't get stellar results right away they act disappointed. The only fair way to test any provider is to jump with both feet and try a blend of performers and types. Looks like you've done that.
You're absolutely right that no one provider is going to do the best on every name. I don't even park all my names with Klickerz. No way. But I do park MOST of them there. My advice to all is Test, Test, Test. Try us all and uncover which names do the best where. Then recheck every 6 months or a year or so.
Fabulous is definetly my second choice but I'm on the premium program and they DO NOT like typos much. Even less these days then a year ago. I have a feeling that TM typos are going to be worth a lot less very soon, if not worthless altogether. Every party comes to an end, eh? (not to imply that you have any typos, ron, just remarking on the industry trend as a whole)
As far as targeting goes our backend employs an auto-optimizer that initially takes some time to present the highly targeted results that're our strongest asset. I'm sure you'll see increases in the coming days/weeks. Increases in both your CTR and RPC. If you like what you see now you're going to LOVE us in a couple of months.
As counterintuitive as it seems the system often purposefully fails to input targeted links right away just so it gets more user input in the way of searchbox type ins. These are golden as they provide most excellent insight into the users for that name, something we might not get otherwise. The small amount of potential revenue lost in those few days is well more than made up for in the months ahead.
Of course an automated system can't get it right everytime and sometimes your names will need a little help. Whenever you see names that are underperforming (after the first couple of weeks) drop me a line and I'll them worked over. We always stand ready to do whatever it takes to make your names succesful.