PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[ZOX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[jeffoverman]

Ok. Thanks donny and in the answer.

I know I get a lot of traffic outside of the united states on this name.

May do an experiement and bring my porn related names back to parked and see how the traffic is and use keywords.

A ctr of 70 percent would be amazing lol!

 

[ebatcave]

Is there a way to get a text list of the current templates that are out there? There seem to be hundreds and it would help to know what they are instead of searching on each letter. Thanks!

 

[Donny]

ebatcave - Ask your account manager to see if he can get you a list. We currently have 15,482 different templates. We normally don't want to make it publically downloadable, because then the competition could just use it as a starting point. That would be too easy.

We add about 20-30 new templates each day.

But templates one day will be a thing of the past, this is one of my new test pages. http://www.phpscripts.com. It's my own "borrowed" design, with a little rss feed added in, some content, and a few youtube videos. If anybody is from outside the US, you will have to go to the results page.

I will be on vacation starting today, so it's always fun to leave people with something new and no way for me to comment about it.

Donny

 

[ebatcave]

Thanks, Donny! I will contact Jim.

By the way, I'm really excited about the next generation of parked!

 

[Kenny]

Have a good vaca Donny!

 

[copper]

But templates one day will be a thing of the past, this is one of my new test pages. http://www.phpscripts.com. It's my own "borrowed" design, with a little rss feed added in, some content, and a few youtube videos.

Damn, Donny, you teaser
If I can have that template, I'll move few hundred more from sedo immediately :D

 

[netmeg]

It's not a template.

 

[Donny]

Netmeg is right. It's not a template. It's a custom layout.

Donny

 

[Seabass]

Ok. Thanks donny and in the answer.

I know I get a lot of traffic outside of the united states on this name.

May do an experiement and bring my porn related names back to parked and see how the traffic is and use keywords.

A ctr of 70 percent would be amazing lol!

If you are buying expired adult traffic domains 20% is not so unusual but if you buy generic adult domains your CTR goes up dramatically - most of the time.

Here's one of my generic adult with Parked doing 138% CTR with a fair sample of 975 visitors. It's just the .06 a click that is killing me - but I'm not complaining b/c it is better than I can get anywhere else when you factor in the CTR. :]

975 1,348 $85.86 138.26% $0.06 $83.71
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[ZOX]

ebatcave - Ask your account manager to see if he can get you a list. We currently have 15,482 different templates. We normally don't want to make it publically downloadable, because then the competition could just use it as a starting point. That would be too easy.

We add about 20-30 new templates each day.

But templates one day will be a thing of the past, this is one of my new test pages. http://www.phpscripts.com. It's my own "borrowed" design, with a little rss feed added in, some content, and a few youtube videos. If anybody is from outside the US, you will have to go to the results page.

I will be on vacation starting today, so it's always fun to leave people with something new and no way for me to comment about it.

Donny

Are you going to make this "template" available Donny?
...
If so...when?

 

[Donny]

Sdx - that layout is mine. You will need to create your own.

It's not hard, as long as you can use a html editor.

Donny

 

[Mike]

Whoa Whoa!!! Slow down there, Donny!

This is completely leaving the path of "regular templates" and definitely looks more appealing than anything in the DB of choices.
Unfortunately, most of us - or at the very least, i am - not a coder. I understand what HTML is all about, but writing something that has an acceptable visual output is a no-go.
Short of outsourcing to someone to code, how can the common "parker" achieve similar results?

Throw us a bone here, man!

M.

 

[jhansen]

Sdx - that layout is mine. You will need to create your own.

It's not hard, as long as you can use a html editor.

Donny

Making my own parking pages would be a breeze if I could blow up the adsense blocks to twice their normal size without getting kicked out of the program for violating TOS.

-Justin

 

[Donny]

It's hard to explain while driving so I'll explain tonight.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Making my own parking pages would be a breeze if I could blow up the adsense blocks to twice their normal size without getting kicked out of the program for violating TOS.

-Justin

Well it's not AdSense, because Parked delivers a Yahoo (and other) feed. Maybe the other companies have different rules about formatting the sponsored links.

Hoo... I can't *wait* to get my hands on this, although I won't be able to do it justice until after the 4th of July.

 

[ZOX]

Sdx - that layout is mine. You will need to create your own.

It's not hard, as long as you can use a html editor.

Donny

Pretty Please D!

Whoa Whoa!!! Slow down there, Donny!

This is completely leaving the path of "regular templates" and definitely looks more appealing than anything in the DB of choices.
Unfortunately, most of us - or at the very least, i am - not a coder. I understand what HTML is all about, but writing something that has an acceptable visual output is a no-go.
Short of outsourcing to someone to code, how can the common "parker" achieve similar results?

Throw us a bone here, man!

M.

YES!!! :tu:

 

[jhansen]

Well it's not AdSense, because Parked delivers a Yahoo (and other) feed. Maybe the other companies have different rules about formatting the sponsored links.

Hoo... I can't *wait* to get my hands on this, although I won't be able to do it justice until after the 4th of July.

Implementation. If there is any conflict between these implementation requirements and a Policy, you should comply with the Policy instead, but only to the extent of the conflict.

1. You agree to allow your Ad Pages to send Overture a Query each time that a user navigates to an Ad Page, and you agree not to send additional Queries until the user refreshes the Ad Page or navigates to a new Ad Page. You acknowledge that we may suspend services under this Agreement in the event we detect a spike in the number of Queries from Your Site or Your RSS Feed; and
2. You agree that you will: (i) not modify the Ad Unit in any way; (ii) display the Ad Unit at the same time that you display the other content on the Ad Page; and (iii) not change the content or the order of the Matched Ads or any other content within the Ad Unit. You understand that we may modify the content, look and feel, and any other aspect of the Ad Unit from time to time, in our sole discretion.

Abuse of Services. You agree not to:
1. add to, subtract from or modify the Ad Unit or the Matched Ads in any way (including making changes to the order of the Matched Ads or any information within the Matched Ads, making changes to any trademark, or making changes to notices included in the Ad Unit (e.g., copyright and trademark notices));
2. strip, modify or filter the Matched Ads in whole or in part;

Maybe he can get away with it, just because of the traffic he brings Yahoo, but I really doubt any regular joe in the Yahoo program would be allowed to alter the way the ads display and get away with it.

 

[netmeg]

Umm, it's not YPN, it's a parking feed. Whole different thing. Look at how differently all the various parking companies display their Google and Yahoo ads (Namedrive, RD, Parked, SEDO, Fabulous, etc)

 

[johname]

it's not YPN, it's a parking feed.

Exactly!

 

[GILSAN]

How do you know when a bot has visited your site ?

Anyone :?

GIL

 

[jeffoverman]

have a safe enjoyable vacation donny!!!!!!!! another cruise?

dont drive while your driving and using namepros.mobi..its too addicting, lol

thanks for insight seabass!

my name is a .tv name that continues to do well but just would love a higher ctr rate..we shall see...will bring my parking panel names out with porn and try parked.


never experimented with my other names so i am dying to know on this..

cheers,

j

 

[Seabass]

Anyone :?

GIL

You make $93 in one day on a domain like PotatoSalad,com on four uniques, when you had only made $6 in the last 365 days on the domain - for example.

These earnings have been reversed EVERY time it has happened, I should mention.

GIL, how are your Portuguese domains doing lately at Parked ? Mine have seen some improvement.
.

 

[netmeg]

You don't necessarily *know* because you don't have detailed access to the logs, but you can make a kind of guess, which is what I did. For example, if I have 50 domains that are STATEFoo.com and suddenly one day I get one or two visits on each domain (but no clicks) then I can make an educated guess that it was probably a bot - specially if it goes the other way, and is FooCity.com with 50 different city names.

Sometimes I see traffic that seems to hit a bunch of my domains in alphabetical order, regardless of niche. Now my domains aren't linked anywhere, they're not even listed in a text format anywhere, and nobody is going to type those in, so it kind of has to be a bot.

Likewise, if I get a stat that looks like 2 visits and 55 clicks - it's probably a bot.

(I feel like I'm having a Jeff Foxworthy moment... too many years managing a southern rock band, I guess)

 

[GILSAN]

You make $93 in one day on a domain like PotatoSalad,com on four uniques, when you had only made $6 in the last 365 days on the domain - for example.

These earnings have been reversed EVERY time it has happened, I should mention.

GIL, how are your Portuguese domains doing lately at Parked ? Mine have seen some improvement.
.

My Portuguese domains remind me of the lyrics from the Louis Armstrong Song: Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen Album that goes something like: "Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down..." Perhaps a slight improvement overall.

Very similar to the other domains. Everythings very stagnant for the last few months.

Thanks for your and Netmegs explanation about bots. They don't seem to affect me the way the they seem to affect some domainers. Maybe they're having a hard time finding Madeira Island!

This month I'll be more interested in our soccer team and how they do in the Euro 2008!

GIL

 

[copper]

Sdx - that layout is mine. You will need to create your own.

It's not hard, as long as you can use a html editor.

Donny

I have no problem creating my own.
But, would you provide A WAY to implement it at parked.com?