PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Pred]

when will parked do mobi-compliant pages?
cheers

 

[ArtfulWebSites]

Thanks to both of you. I'll look into changing my Adwords time zone after
I do a little figuring to see if my current time zone settings can be causing the
discrepancies.

Cheers!

I had looked into that awhile back because I am in MST, and when I set up my Google AW account (a year ago), I chose my own time zone for the account. While Parked is at PST - one hour earlier. So my AW account resets at midnight MST, and Parked does not reset until 1:00 AM MST - a one hour differential.

When I researched it in AW, I found a definitive statement that once you set the time zone for your AW account, you can NOT change it. I then asked Donny if the Parked time zone for my account could be changed, and the answer was no.

So, I am stuck with that one our differential. But, think about it, what you "lose" on the front end of the day, you pick up on the back end of the day. If you differential is greater than one hour, it may make a difference if there is significantly different traffic volumes during those overlapping time periods.

 

[Avo19]

.....
When I researched it in AW, I found a definitive statement that once you set the time zone for your AW account, you can NOT change it. I then asked Donny if the Parked time zone for my account could be changed, and the answer was no.
.....

You can change it "once" but it requires you to phone them & explain you didn't realize the consequences etc when you first set up the account etc etc.
It takes some pushing, but can be done, as I know of several people who have done so over the past year.

 

[guttermuth]

WTF is up with stats still no close out for yesterday and stats are frozen even though time is moving

 

[Avo19]

WTF is up with stats still no close out for yesterday and stats are frozen even though time is moving

stats have finalized for me about 10 mins ago - 17:50 PST

 

[Donny]

Usually when things hang like the were that's because we are finalizing the stats.

Donny

 

[guttermuth]

mine just did and caught up as well

was happy with the way mine closed

 

[MicroGuy]

Has it helped at all for your CTR or traffic? Has the domain performed better at Parked after you added the content?

FYI: After spending about 20 hours customizing 20 domains, CTR and traffic were down considerably for those domains. I have no idea why, most likely due to my lack of SEO skills.

 

[guttermuth]

Donnt TODAYS stats was showing 658 clicks then next update went DOWN to 621 clicks what would cause this?

 

[Sleepys]

Donnt TODAYS stats was showing 658 clicks then next update went DOWN to 621 clicks what would cause this?

It is simply a matter of Parked's advertising partners deciding that 37 of your 658 clicks were fraudulent in some way (either from bad clicks or from clicks that never happened in the first place, or something like that.)

 

[sonny prawita]

to : Donny
I wish to enquire criterion what you searching to your program if someone have joint in your program and refuse whether may to joint again ,need time how long?
thank you for your information.

regards,
sonny

 

[pardon]

Has anybody else experienced a big drop in RPC since last week?
I am having at least 50% drop on all my domains. Is that normal?

FYI: After spending about 20 hours customizing 20 domains, CTR and traffic were down considerably for those domains. I have no idea why, most likely due to my lack of SEO skills.

Just give more time to search engines to crawl your sites. I had one site at position #1 on Sep but had completely disappeared just after taking it to Parked. After a couple of weeks it has regained it's ranking.

 

[likepeas]

is it possible to get accepted with 13 domains ?

 

[VirtualT]

FYI: After spending about 20 hours customizing 20 domains, CTR and traffic were down considerably for those domains. I have no idea why, most likely due to my lack of SEO skills.

Parking companies usually choose the default templates because on average they provide the highest ctr, think about it.

 

[guttermuth]

It is simply a matter of Parked's advertising partners deciding that 37 of your 658 clicks were fraudulent in some way (either from bad clicks or from clicks that never happened in the first place, or something like that.)

shouldnt that happen today when the numbers settle out?

 

[Name Trader]

is it possible to get accepted with 13 domains ?

you only need 10 domains to open a Parked account.

 

[deannam]

How often do you update your parked pages (content etc.)? I'm not sure how much time I should devote to going back and tweaking pages once I have optimized them.

 

[scrsteven]

Is Webcounter.com another example of an iframe using Parked 1 click lander? It looks very similar to me.

 

[pardon]

Is Webcounter.com another example of an iframe using Parked 1 click lander? It looks very similar to me.

It's a 2 click lander from the UK. PR7 wow

 

[whitebark]

How often do you update your parked pages (content etc.)? I'm not sure how much time I should devote to going back and tweaking pages once I have optimized them.

Good question - I let them go for about a month after tweaking them to test the results - if they did better I leave them. If they didn't do better or uh oh, got worse, I change them. Keep plugging away till you find what really works, but you have to give it at least a month to know for sure.

And what about those changes Donny? I never seen you so quiet about such matters.... you've got something up your sleeve like a major update don't you?
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