PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Seabass]

Hmmm, I can't seem to find where that link is. I know about the Mass Modify link under the Portfolios link, but that doesn't seem to allow for bulk change of keywords. Any clarification will be appreciated.

Click on one of your portfolios, then look more or less the upper right side below the "refesh" button. It will say "optimize this portfolio".

 

[namegame]

Click on one of your portfolios, then look more or less the upper right side below the "refesh" button. It will say "optimize this portfolio".

Cool. Thanks, Seabass.

 

[humandepravity]

Question for Meta Tags

It says if you leave the section for meta tags blank, Parked will fill in dynamically with keywords. So my questions are, 1- should the owner do the meta tags or let Parked do it, 2- if you let Parked do this, how long will it take to accomplish, and 3- if you do it, what is the limit for tags, and how should they be seperated by a comma or what??? Thanks for any info.

 

[Seabass]

Jeez...... after two "really down" days at Parked and then a big UP day at parked, now two more "really down" days.

Traffic is high, higher than at the beginning of the year, but CTR has dropped about 15% for some reason. Is Yahoo or Parked weaning out more clicks then before and not paying for them? Is this on top of paying .01 to .04 for international/adult?

It's the only conclusion I can come to after suddenly dropping from the low 50's% CTR to the mid 30's%/low 40's% CTR starting in March.

In all my time (since May 2006) at Parked my CTR has never been so darn low.

I understand the "seasickness" happens when Yahoo plays with its algorithm, but crash in CTR is unexpected to me.

Donny, I was wondering if you could tell me if Parked or Yahoo being more conservative on what is reported as a click now? Are there new parameters for counting clicks?

This all started March 1st.

Thanks!

Seabass
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[Donny]

Seabass, Ask lost their Google feed around 12:30 PST on 2/29, so that's when it technically started. Most of the issues you are seeing are based around our secondary providers.

I'm assuming you are not having any problems with Yahoo, it's all with our secondary feed. Just shoot me your username and I'll take a look and let you know what I see.

But we definitely are not being more conservative with traffic now.

Donny

 

[Seabass]

Seabass, Ask lost their Google feed around 12:30 PST on 2/29, so that's when it technically started. Most of the issues you are seeing are based around our secondary providers.

I'm assuming you are not having any problems with Yahoo, it's all with our secondary feed. Just shoot me your username and I'll take a look and let you know what I see.

But we definitely are not being more conservative with traffic now.

Donny

Thanks Donny. Fair enough.

I expected to see the PPC drop March 1st, just not the CTR drop. I guess the ads from the new feeds currently are not as relevant as what Ask was presenting, or they don't have the depth of advertisers needed.

Thanks for the fast reply
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[Donny]

I think it might be many things. The keywords that worked with Ask may not be the same ones that work with our new system. So that's what we have been working on improving. Hopefully by Monday we should have all of the data we will need to start making some improvements. We also have another feed provider being added in on Monday as well. Everyday we continue to make improvements to try to get the revenue back to where it was before. I'm not sure that will be possible, but we are doing everything that we can to make it better.

Donny

 

[rickkumar]

Donny,

Can you provide more info on why clicks/revenue are all going down daily. Looks like every day sets a new low record and there is no sign of it improving so far.

May be something else is going on that neither you or us know about. I don't know but its not a pretty picture. Check out my account you will know what I am talking about.

I hope its not just my account alone

I hope its not the "new" stricter bot controls taking out lots of genuine clicks/revenue.

 

[Donny]

Rickkuamar - The biggest problem seems to be that you aren't sending us as much traffic. Look at your RPM and RPC they are up. But your hits are down.

I can only do so much.

Donny

 

[Spade]

When the numbers finalized for yesterday, I had nearly double in Rev. Surprising, and quite nice. It seems the revenue on a few things across the board has gone up in quite a few categories.

Im sticking by to see how it all works out. Thanks Donny for your hard word.

Justin

 

[rickkumar]

Rickkuamar - The biggest problem seems to be that you aren't sending us as much traffic. Look at your RPM and RPC they are up. But your hits are down.

I can only do so much.

Donny

Not true because I have not moved any domains away from parked since March 2nd when you help me set the redirect code for the yahoo unsupported traffic. Check clicks from 2nd until now and they are way down. Thats the reason I asked if something was affecting clicks (and hence revenue).

I am just trying to find the reason for lower clicks!

Well hopefully things will improve soon

PS: How are your secondary traffic providers performing, especially for India Traffic? May be I will stop using the redirect if secondary providers are doing good!

 

[Donny]

rickkumar - Yes you did move domains, you just explained the reason. When you moved the secondary traffic to another company that's where your clicks went. So you have less clicks because you sent that traffic elsewhere, I would look at where you redirected the traffic.

The secondary providers are doing ok. In another week or so I'll finally be happy. In some vertiicals and in some countries we are doing better than with Ask. We will also be adding another provider on Monday which should boost the RPC in a few additional countries. But I can tell you that India is hard.

Donny

 

[TOXX]

rickkumar - Yes you did move domains, you just explained the reason. When you moved the secondary traffic to another company that's where your clicks went. So you have less clicks because you sent that traffic elsewhere, I would look at where you redirected the traffic.

The secondary providers are doing ok. In another week or so I'll finally be happy. In some vertiicals and in some countries we are doing better than with Ask. We will also be adding another provider on Monday which should boost the RPC in a few additional countries. But I can tell you that India is hard.

Donny

Great news Donny! :tu:

 

[rickkumar]

But I can tell you that India is hard.

Donny

Now you just broke my heart

 

[kemjika11]

Honestly, i trust parked, and i just feel with all the bs and up and down news(plus alot of hype on NP too!), Parked isstable, and its a good option. Other parking companies are facing the same forces Parked feels, so these issues span most of the indusry.I'm really glad to hear you're looking to hire 10 new programmers . you see, trends are critical. the whole economy is faltering and acting shaky, but you're biz must have grown a bit to need more people and its in a still growing industry- web biz!


I can see why india would be hard. I think to web entrepreneurs, it always looks like alot( the market), but its actual worth is probably much less right now than how people perceive it. There's some suspicion about alot of stuff, but its a place that can't be ignored. Its a powerhouse already. Its still growing at a mercurial rate, and has so much potential for the future.

 

[mrizos]

Donny,

My domains have been getting ranked much higher on the SE's now (some on page one).

Since my domains are not type-in or typo custom content is my only option, and it is working.

thx man.

 

[ngenme]

Parked.com adult templates are just da best.... It personally turns me on ... I would say better than parkingpanel. Even though once in a while parkingpanel domain do perform better.

Anyway

What are the best countries for parked.com in terms of ecpm in general.

Okay.,.

US,
UK
Canada..


What else..

I need sorted lists.

In general. So don't worry about for gambling, this or UK are good for BDSM... In general lah...

You know you have too many templates when I just approved these this morning.

Derailleur - some bike thingy.
American Fuzzy Lop Rabbit
True Love
Animal Print Rugs
Swim Camp

And another 250 additional ones. Our designers have been very busy lately.

Maybe I should have a design new landers contest. I'll have to think about this one.

Donny

rickkumar - Yes you did move domains, you just explained the reason. When you moved the secondary traffic to another company that's where your clicks went. So you have less clicks because you sent that traffic elsewhere, I would look at where you redirected the traffic.

The secondary providers are doing ok. In another week or so I'll finally be happy. In some vertiicals and in some countries we are doing better than with Ask. We will also be adding another provider on Monday which should boost the RPC in a few additional countries. But I can tell you that India is hard.

Donny

Okay Donny, India is hard. China is hard. I sure know that Indonesia must be hard because my parking pages don't show any ads

But you perform extremely well on US, EU, and even so many other countries and it's getting better as time goes buy.

What would be great for all of us if you can give lists of say 200 countries sorted based on which one perform best in general....

A table or sort.

 

[Seabass]

Ya' know........ really we all know Parked.com is the best. It just takes some sucking up of the pride/attititude when things change. But, things change in every company - nature of the world. I know I complain at times, but I know Parked is working in our best interests, as Donny plainly iterated several times.

On a tangent, I want to say "Alot" is spelled correctly "A lot" . It is not one word. Sorry, I was a teacher at one time. I quit b/c cute girls kept staring at me and I knew I was weak when it came to pretty girls. I lasted only three months. :hehe:
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[Donny]

teguh123 - Can you send me the domain(s) that you say are not returning any results and the keywords?

Thanks.

Donny

 

[packrat]

Ya' know........ really we all know Parked.com is the best. It just takes some sucking up of the pride/attititude when things change. But, things change in every company - nature of the world. I know I complain at times, but I know Parked is working in our best interests, as Donny plainly iterated several times.

On a tangent, I want to say "Alot" is spelled correctly "A lot" . It is not one word. Sorry, I was a teacher at one time. I quit b/c cute girls kept staring at me and I knew I was weak when it came to pretty girls. I lasted only three months. :hehe:
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You spelled "attitude" incorrectly