PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Mike]

That better? www.dodgeturbo.com

VERY! nice!

IB

 

[whitemagic]

I understand that Bid CPCs for keywords in Adwords or AdCenter range in price based on market demand, but from your experiences what have people on here found in terms of cheaper CPC prices.

I know Parked.com really only allows advertising from Google and AdCenter, so do you find that Google or AdCenter has the lower Bid CPC for keywords? It would make sense for me to open an advertising account with the program which has a lower Average CPC, no?

Thanks!

 

[netmeg]

So I get two more clicks again the following day for $2.28 each, NICE!

Then I check the next day and saw that it was revised to .85 cents each?

Why would it go from .22 cents to $2.28 then back down to .85? Can someone please explain this huge variance? Should I expect it to go lower the next time? If that's the case then I might as well stop my Adwords arbitrage campaign. I'll be losing money in no time!

Any explanation will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-Kevin-

Are you saying it got revised *twice* ?? I've never seen that happen. I've had 22 cent clicks revised to the two dollar range, AND I've had two dollar-something clicks revised to less than .25, but I've never had anything revised twice.

 

[NPKJB]

Are you saying it got revised *twice* ?? I've never seen that happen. I've had 22 cent clicks revised to the two dollar range, AND I've had two dollar-something clicks revised to less than .25, but I've never had anything revised twice.

No....

I'm saying that the first time the clicks occurred they went from .22 to 2.28.

The next time the clicks occurred they went from 2.28 to .85.

These happened with the same domain.


Sorry for the confusion!


-Kevin-

 

[netmeg]

Oh. Well, every ad doesn't pay the same by a long shot - Google and Yahoo and Ask (and all providers, for that matter) have inventory of high paying, low paying and everything in between. I think Parked uses some kind of a predictive system to figure out how much the click *might* be worth, and maybe they were going on the historical data from the first clicks to estimate the second.

I have domains that get anything from $.05 clicks to $3.85 clicks - on the same domain. Anyone who runs AdSense or YPN can tell you that's just the way it works.

I wouldn't get too worked up about the estimates anyway - the finals are what's important.

 

[NPKJB]

Oh. Well, every ad doesn't pay the same by a long shot - Google and Yahoo and Ask (and all providers, for that matter) have inventory of high paying, low paying and everything in between. I think Parked uses some kind of a predictive system to figure out how much the click *might* be worth, and maybe they were going on the historical data from the first clicks to estimate the second.

I have domains that get anything from $.05 clicks to $3.85 clicks - on the same domain. Anyone who runs AdSense or YPN can tell you that's just the way it works.

I wouldn't get too worked up about the estimates anyway - the finals are what's important.

OK.. Now I understand. I was beginning to think that arbitrage was a piece of cake. Now.... not so much.

I'll keep my excitement in check till the following day when I look at the final numbers. Thanks Netmeg!!

 

[netmeg]

Whenever something seems like it's too easy - it usually is. Remember that if it WAS that easy for everyone, we'd ALL be rich. I for one am not. *Yet*.

 

[evilopinions]

my finals however usually close up and thats what I love about parked.com

Unless it is a completely new domain and was just added to the system recently...

 

[jeffoverman]

there is hope for me lol 2 days running

Hi

2 days in a row including today that my ctr is above 50 percent on average.

My estimates from yesterday had doubled as final numbers.

Yesterday and today the bulk of my revene came from a cheesecake related site. Love my cheesecakes lol.

I won't talk numbers but I am still in the kiddy pool at parked. Lol but I love numbers, stats and noticing when I customize my names and have a descriptive paragraph my ctr doubles then the default.

What's interesting is my porn related sites the views are amazing and a solid ctr but low click rates. I will take this though.

Still no answer on why tags don't filled inn. Guess I will manually do this over my names.

So looks like I need more time to analize my stats over the next month, fill in tags and keywords. Still can't wait to hit the next level, 10 dollars a day would be nice and then do 50 to 100 a day. 10 dollars a day on my names is what my goal is short term. Not setting the bar high and realistic I believe.

Concluding all I need is a a couple sites that gets some nice volume. Obviously I want all my names like this but it won't happen.

Come next year I am downsizing my portfolio of names and not carry these hefty expenses. Have some amazing terms. Would be happy down size to under 300 names. I am thinking in having the bulk of my names at parked when I hit a certain target. I don't move from parking company to company. Have enough issues which names are where lol. I realized I own freewimax.de yesterday and wasn't parked. So I parked it at sedo. Hard to manage what I own and format all this, would only imagine what the big boys do and they jump around a lot.

Come on parked! 10 bucks a day short term. Lol. 50 to 100 gets me out of kiddy pool lol

I think parked is good on financial terms. I just regged straddle.tv and at parked. Curious what that brings in and options term. Forexfutures.tv I own as well and that's at parked.

Cheers,

J

 

[evilopinions]

Hi

2 days in a row including today that my ctr is above 50 percent on average.

My estimates from yesterday had doubled as final numbers.

Yesterday and today the bulk of my revene came from a cheesecake related site. Love my cheesecakes lol.

I won't talk numbers but I am still in the kiddy pool at parked. Lol but I love numbers, stats and noticing when I customize my names and have a descriptive paragraph my ctr doubles then the default.

What's interesting is my porn related sites the views are amazing and a solid ctr but low click rates. I will take this though.

Still no answer on why tags don't filled inn. Guess I will manually do this over my names.

So looks like I need more time to analize my stats over the next month, fill in tags and keywords. Still can't wait to hit the next level, 10 dollars a day would be nice and then do 50 to 100 a day. 10 dollars a day on my names is what my goal is short term. Not setting the bar high and realistic I believe.

Concluding all I need is a a couple sites that gets some nice volume. Obviously I want all my names like this but it won't happen.

Come next year I am downsizing my portfolio of names and not carry these hefty expenses. Have some amazing terms. Would be happy down size to under 300 names. I am thinking in having the bulk of my names at parked when I hit a certain target. I don't move from parking company to company. Have enough issues which names are where lol. I realized I own freewimax.de yesterday and wasn't parked. So I parked it at sedo. Hard to manage what I own and format all this, would only imagine what the big boys do and they jump around a lot.

Come on parked! 10 bucks a day short term. Lol. 50 to 100 gets me out of kiddy pool lol

I think parked is good on financial terms. I just regged straddle.tv and at parked. Curious what that brings in and options term. Forexfutures.tv I own as well and that's at parked.

Cheers,

J

I hardly go above 50 uniques a day and I usually hit the 4-5 $ /day mark.. + One good sale a moth pays the rent......

My ctr for last month is 44.90 % and I know it could have been much better if I optimised even one of my names...

My short term goal is also 10 $/day mark but that would drill down to customizing my domains...

 

[richrich]

Dear All,

The recent phenomenon of Quality Score (QS) issues have made many parked.com members become terrified. what i've heard, there have been 100+ parked.com members have their accounts suspended this month because of low QS. Do you guyz have any ideas how to increase the QS? Is the number of domain we own will also influence the QS (*the more domains you have the better QS you get??*)? Or is there any traffic from specific countries that may considered contributing low QS?

Awaiting for any further response. Thanks

 

[jeffoverman]

This is interesting.

I can't comment on this. Just learned of this qs thing a couple days back.

Has me somewhat worried with my names and after bodis account closed on me.

Trying do my best to increase my ctr and non traffic names here.

I see some lights at the tunnel finally and now this qs issue has me worried. I tend to overthink into matters at times. Can't afford another parking company telling me get lost like bodis. That's the only one.

Parked has the features and helps you to succeed. That's what I am concluding on. I am trying on adjusting things and fixing things. I can't control what a viewer thinks of my site, weather they click or buy something off links. Can't control there clicking. Can't control click fraud. That's a huge risk in this business, a lot of unknowns and question mark issues which I still don't know answers to before I jumped really into this domain thing.

To the above post, nice job on 4 to 5 bucks. You will get there. 10 bucks a day, then go from there.

Maybe parked can put some light into this matter Tuesday and explain all in detail. Will get hold of my rep soon. That's one thing I wish parked had was a phone number and you pick up the phone and talk in detail vs comon replies back via email. Last I checked I didn't see a number

 

[deannam]

I just started with Parked and am pleased so far but still need to do some tweaking. What click through rate should I aim for?

 

[richrich]

This is interesting.

I can't comment on this. Just learned of this qs thing a couple days back.

Has me somewhat worried with my names and after bodis account closed on me.

Trying do my best to increase my ctr and non traffic names here.

I see some lights at the tunnel finally and now this qs issue has me worried. I tend to overthink into matters at times. Can't afford another parking company telling me get lost like bodis. That's the only one.

Parked has the features and helps you to succeed. That's what I am concluding on. I am trying on adjusting things and fixing things. I can't control what a viewer thinks of my site, weather they click or buy something off links. Can't control there clicking. Can't control click fraud. That's a huge risk in this business, a lot of unknowns and question mark issues which I still don't know answers to before I jumped really into this domain thing.

To the above post, nice job on 4 to 5 bucks. You will get there. 10 bucks a day, then go from there.

Maybe parked can put some light into this matter Tuesday and explain all in detail. Will get hold of my rep soon. That's one thing I wish parked had was a phone number and you pick up the phone and talk in detail vs comon replies back via email. Last I checked I didn't see a number

Hope to get some explanations about the QS things from Donny once he's back and hope that he would share some tips of how to increase the QS and to avoid suspend from yahoo. I'm sure that will mean a lot for parked.com members.

And hope that Donny will read this post as well and make his post here before soon.

 

[rexvnus]

Man, anyone knows how to get into Parked? Or have the referral link? Thank you

 

[GILSAN]

I bought a domain here in Portugal and when I tried to change the NameServers here at www.dns.pt to Parked.com I was asked to put 2 things:

1. Primary IP (I put 69.46.233.250)
2. Primary name (I put ns1.parked.com)

It gave me no more choices.

I then recieved an e-mail www.dns.pt giving the following error: (part of it I've translated from Portuguese to English)

We were unable to find configured Name Servers for YourDomain.pt on the Server with the IP address 69.46.233.250.

When I go to "Whois record for Parked.com" at: http://whois.domaintools.com/parked.com
I get:

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.PARKED.COM69.46.233.250
NS2.PARKED.COM69.46.234.250
(at the bottom)

but I also get:

Server Type: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
IP Address: 69.46.226.22
IP Location - Louisiana - New Orleans - Zipa Llc (at the top)

I also tried IP address 69.46.226.22 and I still get an error. I can't seem to be able to change the name servers to Parked.com

I've sent an e-mail on friday to Parked but have not recieved an answer.

Does anyone know what I need to do, or to tell me what is Parked.com correct "Primary IP" that these complicated people are asking for, here in Portugal?

Donny? Anyone?

GIL

 

[netmeg]

Traceroute goes to 69.46.233.250.

 

[domainsdepot]

Man, anyone knows how to get into Parked? Or have the referral link? Thank you

sent you a pm

 

[sso]

I don't get it. I have also visited Parked pages of other domainers in this forum and the pages show widge.com, without the meanwhile.com in the URL.

probably because they use frames instead of using parked dns..

Dear All,

The recent phenomenon of Quality Score (QS) issues have made many parked.com members become terrified. what i've heard, there have been 100+ parked.com members have their accounts suspended this month because of low QS. Do you guyz have any ideas how to increase the QS? Is the number of domain we own will also influence the QS (*the more domains you have the better QS you get??*)? Or is there any traffic from specific countries that may considered contributing low QS?

Awaiting for any further response. Thanks

I don't know how to increase QS technically... I don't think the number of domains matter, it is about how good your traffic is..
if your traffic convert well for the advertiser, then you'll have high score.. and vice versa..

I read somewhere that 'usually' traffic from US and Canada convert well..

As for the source of the traffic, I know some people who only use adwords and still got banned..

 

[TOXX]

probably because they use frames instead of using parked dns..



I don't know how to increase QS technically... I don't think the number of domains matter, it is about how good your traffic is..
if your traffic convert well for the advertiser, then you'll have high score.. and vice versa..

I read somewhere that 'usually' traffic from US and Canada convert well..

As for the source of the traffic, I know some people who only use adwords and still got banned..

PARKED.COM does AWESOME for ALL of our domains...INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL! :tu:

 

[sso]

Can anyone explain to me what criteria are used to determine whether your domain gets a one or two-click lander?

yahoo use the keyword in the domain name to decide whether it's a 1click or 2click
for example: business.co.in will likely get 1 click where topbestbusiness.co.in will get 2 click domain

PARKED.COM does AWESOME for ALL of our domains...INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL! :tu:

for the cpc yes, I agree, but i was talking about the TQ score..

 

[scottp26]

I have requested a referral from a member here that has helped me out, dunno if he has a parked.com account. I would like to try parked.com out, if he doesn't respond in the next 24 hours and someone would be so kind as to give me a referral to parked.com I will gladly put them in. PM please

Thanks!

Thanks for the referrals guys!

 

[jpede]

Donny, I'm trying to add YouTube video like you did with your php site. How do I embed the url in the custom content portion?

Thanks!

i tried searching and couldn't find any answers or help on this question. can someone help me with youtube sites on my parked.com pages please.

 

[evilopinions]

i tried searching and couldn't find any answers or help on this question. can someone help me with youtube sites on my parked.com pages please.

I use this code...And then you can change the width and height according to ur need.

<td width="33%" align="center" valign="top">
						<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="230" height="189">
							<param name="width" value="230" />
							<param name="height" value="189" />
							<param name="play" value="false" />
							<param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UUxegfRqJmc" />
							<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="230" height="189" play="false" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UUxegfRqJmc"></embed>
						</object>
						</td>

I am also guessing that 1 page landers do not remain 1 page in every country...

studentsloan.in here in australia is 1 page..Most of the traffic however is Indian and I am unsure if it is a 1 page lander in India as well...

 

[bradskid]

Can someone shed some more light on this quality score. Is it calculated by each individual domain or by your entire profile of domains and then you are just given a "blanket quality" score? If this is the case, I need to move about 800-1000 domains away from parked because I simply don't have the time to optimize them and I have a feeling they could be hurting my quality score. My CTR is at about 10% right now for my entire portfolio, but of the 1500 domains I have at parked only about 30-40 actually have added content. Should I just take down all my domains without content in hopes that my CTR will go up and park them somewhere else in the meantime until i have time to optimize them and add content?