PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[TOXX]

Kudos to Danny's response time, he's lightning fast, their features are well arranged and the ability to move Domains cross account into newly created portfolios is certain welcome as well. Template selection leaves a bit to be desired, it's pretty much along the same lines of design.
Keyword and image selection is ultra responsive, though.

If you (Donny) would get a design contest for one click landers started and beef up on the interface selection, it would make things even more competitive!

Unless Bodis blows everyone out the water, i (and i'm really just speaking for mysel here) seem to have found the solution that i'm going to stick with.

EXACTLY!!

 

[RCK]

Ok, since I'm sick and tired of SEDO's slow behaviour I'm gonna try parked.com!

 

[TOXX]

Ok, since I'm sick and tired of SEDO's slow behaviour I'm gonna try parked.com!

PARKED.com is/was great...Donny still is, but something happened lately (even has Donny confused) that dropped my daily revenue by more than HALF!? ...therefore I'm also testing "the other" Bi-Monthly payment Parking service, RevenueDirect.com
I'll let you guys know what I think soon...
I'm seriously partial to the Bi-Monthly payout programs.
Why wait 45 or 30 days for payment if you can get it every 2 weeks?

 

[TheWatcher]

Ok, since I'm sick and tired of SEDO's slow behaviour I'm gonna try parked.com!

they are still my favorite parking program, get in touch with me for assistance.

I used them for local city guides.

cheers,
em

 

[Donny]

Peter - This is what I have been tracking on your account and 2 others similiar to yours. Our numbers are at record highs each week, but for some reason your account went down about 2 weeks ago actually starting on 5/5. For whatever reason 3 countries Google seems to have changed something with. Because when there used to be 10+ results now there may be 1 or maybe none for the same search. But if I run the same search on another country it seems to work like before. All 230 other countries seem to work fine, but those 3 seem to be having some issues. And it's only for certain terms. So it could be that the country asked Google to block those terms, I am not 100% sure at this point. But I did verify this happens with 3 other companies as well, so it's not just us. Overal across our network it's only affecting us like $300 a day. But hopefully we can get it resolved or at least know the answer.

Donny

 

[TOXX]

Peter - This is what I have been tracking on your account and 2 others similiar to yours. Our numbers are at record highs each week, but for some reason your account went down about 2 weeks ago actually starting on 5/5. For whatever reason 3 countries Google seems to have changed something with. Because when there used to be 10+ results now there may be 1 or maybe none for the same search. But if I run the same search on another country it seems to work like before. All 230 other countries seem to work fine, but those 3 seem to be having some issues. And it's only for certain terms. So it could be that the country asked Google to block those terms, I am not 100% sure at this point. But I did verify this happens with 3 other companies as well, so it's not just us. Overal across our network it's only affecting us like $300 a day. But hopefully we can get it resolved or at least know the answer.

Donny

Thanks Donny...you know I praise PARKED.com as much as possible...It IS an AWESOME Parking Program...
...But "Revenue is Revenue" and my names at RevenueDirect seem to be getting TONS of clicks...I'll see how the overall revenue is, though, but for example my 8P.COM alone is getting around 180 clicks/day with 42.3% CTR! ...and it seems to be climbing! :D
If the links come back to Parked or you have another solution for me I'm back home in a jiffy!
Your service will outweight a slight revenue difference any day!

 

[dag]

I've been trying Parked.com out with some of my higher traffic names, and I'm pretty happy so far! In the week they've been there, they've made nearly as much as they did at SedoPro within a month. I've been a little disappointed with the click adjustments the next day, but I realize that's just the way it works, and that NameDrive does the same thing.

Just as an aside, I've got an incredible domain right now at SedoPro which I wouldn't even test out anywhere else for fear of messing with a formula that's really working right now: in the past three days, it's made $35.00, $36.00, and $47.00, respectively! And that's on traffic of about 200 uniques per day. Prior to that, it had been making about $3.00 per day (still very nice, of course). Anyway, I imagine this is just a major spike that will return to previous levels, but still, wow! And even cooler, I just regged it myself about 6 weeks ago. (And no, it's NOT for sale.) :tu:

 

[TOXX]

I've been trying Parked.com out with some of my higher traffic names, and I'm pretty happy so far! In the week they've been there, they've made nearly as much as they did at SedoPro within a month. I've been a little disappointed with the click adjustments the next day, but I realize that's just the way it works, and that NameDrive does the same thing.

Just as an aside, I've got an incredible domain right now at SedoPro which I wouldn't even test out anywhere else for fear of messing with a formula that's really working right now: in the past three days, it's made $35.00, $36.00, and $47.00, respectively! And that's on traffic of about 200 uniques per day. Prior to that, it had been making about $3.00 per day (still very nice, of course). Anyway, I imagine this is just a major spike that will return to previous levels, but still, wow! And even cooler, I just regged it myself about 6 weeks ago. (And no, it's NOT for sale.) :tu:

GREAT!!!
...
Looks like I'll be coming back HOME (Parked.com) pretty soon also...I'll give RevenueDirect one more day or so, but then its back to PARKED!
The clicks and CTR are great at Revenuedirect, but RPC is really crap! :td:
I also just got some more "revenue" domains that should help me get over this hump of lower earnings...and Donny always works on getting our accounts as optimal as possible!

 

[wlliam b]

parked.com rocks

Donny and parked.com are the best parking service in the universe. I've tried the others and no cares like these guys. I look forward to new improvements because I know Donny and parked.com think everything thing through thoroughly before they put anything into production. I have over 900 names with parked.com and they have paid on the day promised since I've been with them which is coming up on a year.

Very happy parked.com customer,
William B

 

[jcorral2]

yeah what do you think that revenue drop is all about .. i mean i know about the reason of actually clicks versus estimates but the question is WHY NOW, what happened now that made things change ... Besides thats a huge drop ... its really weird

 

[MrKrabs]

parked.com is good for well-targeted names, especially american traffic. it's quite hard to get a 1-click lander, but if you do, it often pays well.

I have yet to see one Parking company using Overture, that offers 1 click landers, if anyone knows of any, please post them.

 

[Donny]

We offer one click landers, but not on all domains. It's a decision that Yahoo makes on their end.

Donny

 

[Phronesis]

I seem to do the best at Parked with my low bid / high converting names (video games for example). At a place like ND I'd get 1 visit and one $.09 click. At Parked, I get 1 visit and seven $.09 clicks. Turns an otherwise reg fee name into one I'll renew.

 

[TOXX]

Well...I'm back home with most of my domains!
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I really hope PARKED.COM becomes the BEST place to park domains overall!
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I'm just seriously sick and tired of moving names all around...

 

[whitebark]

I seem to do the best at Parked with my low bid / high converting names (video games for example). At a place like ND I'd get 1 visit and one $.09 click. At Parked, I get 1 visit and seven $.09 clicks. Turns an otherwise reg fee name into one I'll renew.

Indeed, and makes you wonder what ND does with all those other clicks?
:hehe:

 

[rickkumar]

Does Parked.com has any restrictions on categories such as: adult, casino, etc?

Do they pay good for these categories?

 

[dag]

Does Parked.com has any restrictions on categories such as: adult, casino, etc?

Do they pay good for these categories?

I can't say much about the payout, as I've only been with them a few days, but they definitely have the most "adult" adult landers I've seen (:lala, so I don't think there would be any particular restrictions...

 

[TheWatcher]

Does Parked.com has any restrictions on categories such as: adult, casino, etc?

Do they pay good for these categories?

Based on my experience, fab pay more in casino, parkingpanel pay more in adults. Everything else goes to parked.com

hope this help.

 

[TOXX]

Well, I just finished a little "test run" through some other parking co's (including RevenueDirect and ParkingPanel) after a little slump in earnings at Parked...so, revenue was even WORSE in the other companies and PARKED.COM is back on track now with overall revenue...they are HANDS DOWN the BEST overall parking company out there right now...and unless Bodis, iMoDo, or some other super great new company starts up...PARKED.COM is #1
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And Donny offers the best service you can get anywhere!

 

[rickkumar]

Thank you guys. I am getting ready to test parked.

No doubt about Donny's great customer service.