PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Mobi Cheap]

From my own experience, it helps ALOT

Interesting info, thank you.

Is there a SEO element to this do you think (i.e. is some traffic coming from Google image search results), or is it simply that people perceive the rest of the content on the page as likely to be more relevant because the custom picture is always likely to be highly relevant to the keyword you have chosen?

 

[Donny]

2 drives in one of our primary disk array died, it's easier for them to rebuild with the servers down then when they are up.

It could be an hour or two before Parked.com is back up. All of your sites, are up and running just fine.

Donny

 

[mrizos]

2 drives in one of our primary disk array died, it's easier for them to rebuild with the servers down then when they are up.

It could be an hour or two before Parked.com is back up. All of your sites, are up and running just fine.

Donny

wow, 2 drives! You're very lucky it wasn't 3. I always worry about 2 drives dying at the same time (since my environment is all raid 5 )

 

[John Doe]

Could anyone shed some light on why my application with parked.com was rejected?
I signed up with some really good names, wanting to move everything over from Sedo yet they rejected my application!

You newer know why, but you could try following:

1) Choose only best .com or .net keyword names that have type-in traffic
2) Sign up with more domains. If you did submit 10, try again with 100 or 200
3) Try via referral. PM me for link

Good luck!

 

[HiSoC8Y]

wow, 2 drives! You're very lucky it wasn't 3. I always worry about 2 drives dying at the same time (since my environment is all raid 5 )

What do you do?

I work with SAN/Datacenters/Network infrastructure

 

[mrizos]

What do you do?

I work with SAN/Datacenters/Network infrastructure

Exchange Admin.

 

[HiSoC8Y]

Exchange Admin.

Well, nice

We recently upgraded to 2007.

I'm managing the project....im actually the assist. manager - net. infra.
I think we are going OFF the parking topic here, lol

but good to know

 

[Sameh]

You newer know why, but you could try following:

1) Choose only best .com or .net keyword names that have type-in traffic
2) Sign up with more domains. If you did submit 10, try again with 100 or 200
3) Try via referral. PM me for link

Good luck!

I'm not sure if referral links will make any differences.

I hope Donny update us on that.

 

[indowebber]

Donny,

I am silvana, indonesian people...

I want to ask you one question...

Whether me and other indonesian people can start to join parked.com again?

If not yet... there's a solved for this problem?

Thanks,
Silvana

Hi Silvi, nice to see another indonesian people here.. Anyway, i have been look some chance that indonesian people have succsess to register and join with parked.com again. I dont know whats the way, maybe its related with the link that you have using when join with parked.com (*your upline).
And byu this post im following youre question too... Maybe Donny could review my quote about Use full link when register (*upline). As i can see this post is same topics,
*before my post*
http://www.namepros.com/2524584-post3833.html

hi, my 1st post...
I've been following many reviews about parked.com
I'm Indonesian. And I'm very interesting to join parked.com

Hump... I thing you must see this post,
http://www.namepros.com/2444444-post2662.html
http://www.namepros.com/2424418-post2392.html

i hope this help to my bro & sis from indonesia

Best Regards

 

[deannam]

Ok, I'm a bit dotty due to no sleep. Are you saying to skip the custom content and focus instead on custom pics?

 

[HiSoC8Y]

Ok, I'm a bit dotty due to no sleep. Are you saying to skip the custom content and focus instead on custom pics?

no, custom content + custom picture

 

[evilopinions]

Ok, I'm a bit dotty due to no sleep. Are you saying to skip the custom content and focus instead on custom pics?

Custom content has never made a difference to my parked pages..Custom pics have..

I experimented ripping off a parked page of all the colours it had and making it completely white..I added a nice custom PIC related to the site..I saw a 30 % jump in my CTR...

The only thing that matters is the visitor..Either he has to be too dumb to click or he must really have some excess money to buy anything that comes up...Apart from getting indexed in google I see no reason why custom content should be there...The disadvantage is people getting involved with the content to go click...(I had a video site that used to make good revenue daily before adding videos from youtube which decreased the CTR by 4 %)

One more thing that I have noticed though is adding your logo to the custom PIC which makes a considerable difference....

Something like seriesfr(dot)net

My experience has been limited though for 6 months...


I have also noticed that the width and height of a template can change the ctr...

Parked templates are less on height and do not stretch fully..Comparing them to someone like namedrive , namedrive has a better ctr with most of the domains..(not more than 1-2 %) but stil makes a different..

Parked template also has many links conjured up too closely..Comparing that with Bodis it only has about 7-8 main links but wide and clickable...

One thing that I also would love to see is the ability to customise link colour like google. Thats also one of the reason that some domains fo pretty well at Bodis..Normal human perceives blue colour as a link and does not click...anything different can help...

 

[thebutler]

Custom photo can work

Ok, I'm a bit dotty due to no sleep. Are you saying to skip the custom content and focus instead on custom pics?

It depends on the domain. Parked has plenty of good stock photos but sometimes you can find a photo thats a better match.

Lets say your domain is oxford-dictionary-sales.ccc. Adding a photo of the actually dictionary would likely help your CTR. I've done something like that for a very specific car site that I have.

With the content it can help with your SERPs. My car site is ranked top three on MSN and Yahoo so having good content is helpful (plus the existing links that the dropped domain had).

One trick that I do is change the content every week BUT I'm changing it with links to ebay auctions with my affiliate link (auctions on topic so I'm getting some clicks). No cash yet but I figure if I'm changing the content I might as well do something that might help me in another way. Changing content keeps the search engines coming back.

 

[Donny]

The doors at Parked.com are back open.

Please remember that stats are still pretty far behind at this point.

Donny

 

[cheezecake]

Donny as of now how far behind would you estimate stats are?

 

[Idees]

I applied for Parked.com over one month ago, I never received a rejection/acceptance email or newsletter since.

It sounds like a great service though, with a ton of satisfied customers.

 

[cheezecake]

Also stats are showing updated through theportfolio and have been since before we went down how long before they settle? I had started a couple PPC campaings at Google and may need to adjust bids

 

[Seabass]

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Oops.... just saw Donny's post. Stats are behind, then.

 

[cheezecake]

Wow..... traffic is really, really low today. CTR is fine, but traffic is low.

I wonder if it had to do with this upgrade? Maybe traffic reporting is still catching up?

Anyone else seeing this?

My traffic is high. I did add a couple arbi campaigns on a couple porn domains which may be it I dont know (getting good clicks from it)

 

[rickkumar]

Seabass:

Stats at this time are about 25-30% lower than normal, but I expect them to fully recover by the end of the day. Donny already said stats pretty far behind above. So nothing to worry

 

[Seabass]

Seabass:

Stats at this time are about 25-30% lower than normal, but I expect them to fully recover by the end of the day. Donny already said stats pretty far behind above. So nothing to worry

Thanks rickkumar - I made a bonehead post before refreshing my browser

 

[Donny]

As of right now everything is about 3.5 hours behind. It could be a little more than that based on us running our stats update every 15 minutes. The 3.5 hours could take 3.5 hours to catch up or 2 hours, it all just depends on the activity.

Donny

 

[cheezecake]

Dave cruthcher that one item we discussed on the phone arrived today as I expected just got delivered kind of late

As of right now everything is about 3.5 hours behind. It could be a little more than that based on us running our stats update every 15 minutes. The 3.5 hours could take 3.5 hours to catch up or 2 hours, it all just depends on the activity.

Donny

That will be nice if my stats are 3.5 hrs behind. I dont mind seeing another 3.5 hrs worh of clicks added in

 

[cordella]

Is Promoting Result Page (Instead of Landing Page) Allowed?

Is promoting Result Page (instead of Landing Page) allowed? I found somebody doing it, when I clicked ihis/her Adwords Ad.

 

[DnPresident]

As of right now everything is about 3.5 hours behind. It could be a little more than that based on us running our stats update every 15 minutes. The 3.5 hours could take 3.5 hours to catch up or 2 hours, it all just depends on the activity.

Donny

Every bit of it.......damn, scared me for a minute and it's 7:23pm by parked.com time. Gotta have that Valentines