PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[panterrasbox]

My numbers have steadily declined over the past two weeks. At first it was the RPC, but then the click-through tanked (ouch!). Before that, everything was humming along - ever since November or so when I started at Parked.

 

[DnPresident]

This has been obvious for quite some time and yes it makes it very difficult to profit......

One example for me is a name ElectronicsRelated.something and looking back from December 20th 2007 through January 23rd and thousands of clicks it was averaging around $1.35 per click with some days averaging over $3.00 per click........On January 24th it dropped to .84 cents, continued sinking and yesterday closed at .34 cents.

And you thought half was bad :hehe:

Don't even get me started on my finance names, loans, refinance & settlement names have dropped like crazy on the RPC.

Over all averaged .50 cents in December.........Averaged .44 in January and as of February only averaging .32......Looks like I'm going one direction and quickly.

For those of you who may think that RPC at Parked hasn't been tanking here's some
screen shots for two of my tech domains - note the huge decrease in RPC

http://dnwarehouse.com/pics/pk1.jpg
.

 

[Sameh]

Donny, Can you please confirm this news?

Domain Name Wire has learned through multiple sources that Ask.com’s Google feed will no longer be syndicated to parking companies as of March 1. A number of parking companies use this feed to augment other search results. I know that Parked.com uses it for traffic to some foreign companies, and apparently HitFarm and Skenzo use this feed as well. There are likely others. (Ask has not returned my calls for comment.)

http://domainnamewire.com/2008/02/11/threats-to-the-domain-name-industry/

 

[gwkg]

Hi, I have an account at Parked with about 600 names but I only make a couple dollars a month. I think my problem is that my domains need to be optimized. Yet, I cannot optimize them automatically because most of my domains do not make any sense.

Here is an example of the types of domains that I'm working with. Let's take oyzt.com, I haven't got a clue what an oyzt is. However, up until now I've left the domain unoptimized and hoping that If I'm lucky, some really terrible speller, a non native english speaking person or someone really wasted may type it into their browser, and end up on a generic page. This approach isn't working very well and not many advertisers are bidding on the keyword oyzt.

Oyzt.com does sound kind of like oyster. I could choose oyster as my keyword but that's pretty vague.

1. Would it be better to use a phrase like pearl oysters.

2. Do I type the phrase like this "pearl oysters" or like this pearl+oysters.

3. How do I type two phrases, do I put a comma between the two phases or leave spaces.

4. How do I seperate keywords - spaces or commas.

5. What is the ideal number of keywords or phrases.

Thank you for your help!!!!

LLLL.com are generally not good for parking revenue.

 

[indowebber]

Math - If you sent something Friday night to your account manager, that is possible. Parked is designed to give everybody 1 person to work with. This helps this person to better understand your needs and you will always get the same answer from the same person. If you have problems with when your account manager responds to your questions, please bring it up with them.

Donny

thanks for your lil time to answer Donny. Im happy to work with parked. I hope it will be a long relation actually after parked have received indonesian people anymore to be a partner.

regards.
Math

 

[cheezecake]

I just woke up and looked at my numbers for today. I was suprised to see my numbers about triple what they normaly are at this time of the day. Anyone else having a strong RPC/CTR day?

 

[packrat]

This has been obvious for quite some time and yes it makes it very difficult to profit......

One example for me is a name ElectronicsRelated.something and looking back from December 20th 2007 through January 23rd and thousands of clicks it was averaging around $1.35 per click with some days averaging over $3.00 per click........On January 24th it dropped to .84 cents, continued sinking and yesterday closed at .34 cents.

And you thought half was bad :hehe:

Don't even get me started on my finance names, loans, refinance & settlement names have dropped like crazy on the RPC.

Over all averaged .50 cents in December.........Averaged .44 in January and as of February only averaging .32......Looks like I'm going one direction and quickly.

Glad to at least see that I'm not alone in this sinking boat although I do feel badly for those of you who are drowning with me

BTW if dnwarehouse.com is not a Parked domain how come you're putting up those stats here? Or am I missing something?

GIL

dnwarehouse.com is just my personal domain website listing domains for sale.
I generally don't show any of my parked domains on that website as most of
the names aren't of any value except for arb. As an aside however I did just sell one of my Parked .ca's for 5K, so it appears that at least one of my parked domains was worth something I really needed that sale to offset my
declining parking revenue!!

 

[SebastianJu]

Are the melting Revenues only at sites with Arbitrage? So do you all use Adwords? If the CTR and the RPC is sinking then the only reasons that came to my mind are that Adwords is sending less good traffic for some reason. But that wouldnt explain the RPC.
Maybe its only Yahoo because of the Microsoft-Advances. Yahoo could cut down the outpay to raise their acquisition to have better business numbers and that way raise the stock price.

Or Yahoo has something against Adwords-Traffic. For that it would be good to know if the CTR/RPC is the same with another PPCs.

If thats not the point and the revenue even sinks for the people who only get natural-Type-in-Traffic then it would be more circumscribed.

I cant say anything to it because im new to it and are doing only testings till now...

Greetings!
Sebastian

 

[NPKJB]

Glad to at least see that I'm not alone in this sinking boat although I do feel badly for those of you who are drowning with me



dnwarehouse.com is just my personal domain website listing domains for sale.
I generally don't show any of my parked domains on that website as most of
the names aren't of any value except for arb. As an aside however I did just sell one of my Parked .ca's for 5K, so it appears that at least one of my parked domains was worth something I really needed that sale to offset my
declining parking revenue!!

Packrat...

I asked once before but didn't receive a response. What is your TQ score?

If its really low or going lower every few weeks, that can be the cause of your declining RPC.

 

[DomainNameWire]

EG.domains - not really that big of a deal for Parked, since they let you send domain traffic to the destination of your choice if Parked can't serve a Yahoo ad on it.

Donny, Can you please confirm this news?



http://domainnamewire.com/2008/02/11/threats-to-the-domain-name-industry/

 

[Donny]

We just sent this in an email to all of our Parked.com customers.

Donny


Dear Parked.com customers,

We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:

"All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions."

For more information please see http://www.parked.com/tos/.

Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.

We thank you for your business and continued support.

Parked.com

 

[madpoet]

Ohhh.... crap.

 

[domainpark]

We just sent this in an email to all of our Parked.com customers.

Donny


Dear Parked.com customers,

We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:

"All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions."

For more information please see http://www.parked.com/tos/.

Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.

We thank you for your business and continued support.

Parked.com

WOW

Thanks Donny for informing all and giving a little time to stop campaigns.

This is gonna affect alot of domainers in a HUGE way

 

[mrizos]

well...back to working for a living...

 

[madpoet]

Sooo... going back to the Ask.com feed, can we choose to use it entirely and still have Arbitrage traffic? Or is it going away completely?

 

[afarmer86]

who ever can come up with another solution will make some huge money.

This will not only cost Yahoo, but Google and other ppc providers,

 

[domainpark]

Sooo... going back to the Ask.com feed, can we choose to use it entirely and still have Arbitrage traffic? Or is it going away completely?

ask.com does not allow arbritrage either.

So pretty much kiss all arbritrage in the domain industry goodbye

 

[johname]

The problem was all the talking in the fourm about it, it got too many inexperienced people regging arbi only names and making a mess of it that yahoo could not ignore. imo

 

[namegame]

So, as I read this we are able to submit names to search engines, right? I didn't realize this which could be a major boost to getting visitors.

 

[SebastianJu]

*sniff* Too bad... The bad thing is Im new to it, the good thing is Im new to it...

Is there an alternative? PM me who knows one...

Greetings!
Sebastian