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Hi,
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
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Interesting you should mention that. I've been screaming for transparency to the point that it got boring. We did have a quite successful thread for a while, which later on got overshadowed by other "activities".goodkarmaco said:If we want profits, we need parking transparency. Parking companies do not and never have wanted it. They will come along dragging and kicking. There may one or two bright companies that wll embrace it. They will become the parking leaders.
Avo19 said:And for the record arbitrage is *not* illegal. It may be frowned upon, discouraged, against some companies "stated" TOS, but it's not illegal.
GDTech said:In other words...
The first rule of fight club is don't talk about fight club....
I got YPN last Oct., I think.Mike said:I've applied to get a YPN account, no answer as of yet. Not sure what the hold up is, or whether they even accept any one at this time
M.
It's not a bad point. However, Donny (Parked.com) clearly stated that Yahoo's announcement pertains to ALL parking companies. While Parked.com is obviously enforcing the "Yahoo law", other parking providers seem to be lagging behind.blanko said:Most parking companies have always stated in their TOS that they do not allow paid traffic. They have always just looked the other way, and let it go on. Maybe yahoo just made this "announcement" to make their advertisers happy. Who says that yahoo or the parking companies will not continue to look the other way?
Mike said:It's not a bad point. However, Donny (Parked.com) clearly stated that Yahoo's announcement pertains to ALL parking companies. While Parked.com is obviously enforcing the "Yahoo law", other parking providers seem to be lagging behind.
It's been mentioned before that it seems that Parked.com is singled out; Donny has yet to announce whether Yahoo has given him a satisfactory answer to his question about when the other parking companies will follow, etc.
In the end, i'm not quite sure what to think at this time. The only thing that's a certainty is what Parked.com/Donny stated ...
M.
.X. said:I have yet to see one "Official Article" From any source, Only Donny and Parked.com
I have spoken with Yahoo twice this week, Once to my YPN manager, And once to my potential Yahoo XML feed manager, I am just awaiting to be to approved for my feed.
No one has "Officially said Sh*t"
Parked.com had a circus going on there, Imo, You can not have people, who have no idea what they are doing, running arbitrage, That is what i speculate happened at Parked.
It is not as easy as just running Adwords and AdCenter to send traffic and run
arbitrage, If that were the case, then every one could do it and make substancial monthly income, No-No , That is not how it works, and because people had no idea what they were doing, Yahoo had to stop it there.
mrizos said:Oh Ok, how's it done then?
Does traffic just magically arrive there? If you weren't using adwords you were just wasting time and money. AdCenter was a joke, unless you liked paying way more than you had too.
It was super easy...everyone could do it...and it's not like you had to be skilled at all..hmmmmm..pay 1 cent and make 8 X 3000 clicks...gosh i'm a genius!!!
.X. said:That is my point, mrizos, NO , you can not just pay 0.01 -0.10 a click, Arbitrage takes research, testing and many other things, before it can be done correctly, so that the advertiser gets conversions.
And like i said, If every one understood it, and how to implement it, to work for them and the advertiser, every one could do it, This is not the case, There is far more to running arbitrage than the majority knows.
As far as how it is done, People take different approaches to doing it, It MUST convert for the advertiser to.
I spent 100's of hours, researching, testing traffic, origins, quality, conversion ratio and ect.
I still spend at least 20 hours a week minimum, doing research. It is work, Not to be confused with some kind of "Give Me"
mrizos said:Ok, I see what you mean now. Let's face it though, nobody is going to do that on a massive scale though.
I am an advertiser. My business advertises on yahoo sponsored search.
My first 3 customers came from parked trafficZ sites via the google content network (probably penny clicks)
...did I care if I had to pay 50 cents for those 3 penny clicks??? Noooo way. They read my ad, they liked my landing page and then they bought from me.
Simple as that.
I could care less where my visitors come from. What I do have to care about is writing a good convincing ad and making an even better landing page!
.X. said:The first sentence, Is exactly why Parked.com got canned, Imo VVVV
"Quote" Let's face it though, nobody is going to do that on a massive scale though.
With out working for it, people simply can't do it, not correctly, and to many doing it incorrectly, brings down the whole bunch.
Wise advice from an experienced domainer. We should have more posts like this to see if this message can penetrate through some thick skulls..X. said:That is my point, mrizos, NO , you can not just pay 0.01 -0.10 a click, Arbitrage takes research, testing and many other things, before it can be done correctly, so that the advertiser gets conversions.
And like i said, If every one understood it, and how to implement it, to work for them and the advertiser, every one could do it, This is not the case, There is far more to running arbitrage than the majority knows.
As far as how it is done, People take different approaches to doing it, It MUST convert for the advertiser to.
I spent 100's of hours, researching, testing traffic, origins, quality, conversion ratio and ect.
I still spend at least 20 hours a week minimum, doing research. It is work, Not to be confused with some kind of "Give Me"
Would i give my wife away-No
Would i give my house away-No
The same applies with arbitrage, I wont share what i know, I have worked my a$$ off, to get the knowledge that i have.
And my friends that are domainers, that i know run arbitrage, they wont either, matter of fact, we do not even exchange ideas, it's just not the thing to do.
dedekind said:I have moved several domains ten days ago from PARKED to another parking company. Checking through search : “site: (XXXXX.com)” whether they are indexed by Google at their new home, (they are), I have spotted additional info:
“In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 1 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.”
Clicking at the link, brings additional line:
www.(XXXXX.com)/click.php?clickfraud=1
I am puzzled by “clickfraud=1”!
Clicking on this URL opens its present parking page, not the old one from PARKED.
These tested domains have been most conservatively parked at PARKED (no driven traffic or illegal clicks)!
Domains moved at the same time from other parking providers don’t have such marking!
Can somebody interpret this marking by Google?
www.(XXXXX.com)/click.php?clickfraud=1
advaita said:Just for info. I never have done any arbitrage but used to get 1 or 2 clicks a day on my domains with Parked - for the last 4 days I have got more visitors but not a single click - not sure what it means but all very annoying