PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[TOXX]

I have to report that I'm already seeing an increase in estimated rev!

 

[ebatcave]

I have to report that I'm already seeing an increase in estimated rev!

We'll have to see how it plays out over the next several days, but so far I like what I see

 

[Donny]

The final numbers are out for yesterday, about an 11% increase overall compared to last Monday. The next few days should definitely be more interesting. And just think these changes are mainly focused around the US/CA markets so far. We still have a lot more work to do.

Donny

 

[DnPresident]

For this pay period, yesterday almost tied for the lowest day in CTR % but also almost tied for the highest days RPC and seem to come out pretty good in the end. Although it's too early to come to any conclusions, I am seeing the higher RPC already and like the new look of the results page.

 

[johname]

Monday was the best day of this current pay period for me

 

[NameGuy]

Monday was the best day of this current pay period for me

me too.

 

[BizBot]

I'm not really seeing any difference yet.....but I'm patient.
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Same here.

 

[Donny]

If you have a lot of 1 click domains, you probably will not see much of a difference. And as I mentioned a lot of the changes are currently based on US traffic, so if you have a lot of non-US traffic it will take us about 2 weeks to get everything else.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Well now they're saying the announcement will be tomorrow.

Microsoft, Yahoo to Take on Google With Search Deal - Advertising Age - Digital

 

[netmeg]

Seems pretty clear they won't index them. Don't know on the PPC side.

 

[Donny]

Definitely going to be an interesting day tomorrow.

Donny

 

[tonyfloyd]

I wonder how Microsoft feels about Yahoo's parking business and the future of it ?
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Donny recently said this earlier....."I have recently talked to Microsoft and they aren't interested in the parking world yet.".....so.....now what?

 

[netmeg]

I reckon we'll find out before too long.

I wonder what's going to happen to some of the tools, like site explorer, which is pretty good for looking at back links.

 

[Donny]

Maybe the problem was they already knew they were going to be working out a deal anyway. I do know that they give out feeds, because I've seen a few floating around, they just weren't parking feeds.

Donny

 

[firefly]

Up until your post in the Whypark thread L2, I thought that Whypark might be in trouble itself with this change possibly comming along. Now I tend to lean a bit more towards your thinking that it might be a stroke of genius.

If Bing do in fact move Whypark out of "parking page" status, that could surely provide a life boat to current Parked users that are seemingly going to get hammered in the search engines.

Whether he saw this comming or not, Donny has seemingly pulled another rabbit out of the hat by getting involved with Whypark. My hat goes off to you Donny.

Mind you, that being said, the deal still has to go through between Bing and Yahoo.

 

[netmeg]

Given the talk in my circles tonight (which are the search circles), I'm pretty sure it's a done deal.

All the other stuff (effect on WhyPark, effect on Parked) we'll just have to see. I am definitely seeing manual reviews from MS on some of my WhyPark domains. But I have yet to find a single WP, Parked, Fab or ND parked domain in Bing.

 

[firefly]

That's the post I was referring to. Gives me a little hope.

 

[BocaVision]

Yahoo and Microsoft complete their deal --

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release

 

[Varon]

Bing should not be taken lightly. From my experience with them, the Micro network has become even more "stringent" than Google. What might seem awesome in terms of site indexing now, might not hold true for the future. Even as an advertiser, it's harder, "these days" to adhere to the Adcenter guidelines than Adwords.

Btw, their Adlabs is fabulous...simply fabulous and Bing is a terrific SE. It's definitely much better than Google. It's just that MSFT will have to work really hard to get people to change their home page to Bing. Because, today, people like to stick with things they are "used to" and it takes time to wean them away. But, past that, if any user tries Bing for a week, they'll most likely use Google as a 2nd alternative. As an SE, Bing has come very close to beating Google or may be the best there is.

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Yahoo and Microsoft complete their deal --

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release

Wow!!

 

[GILSAN]

Yahoo and Microsoft complete their deal --

Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release

:bingo: or should I say BingHoo!