PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[indowebber]

i have just register parked.com a minute a go... And have been waiting for the provement... Now i want to know. Is it domain promo is allowed by parked ?

 

[netmeg]

It would help if you could give some figures and some instances...

Hand regged a domain -- customised --traffic goes to 10-20 uniques a day...

Some analysis like that

Yea, but it *wouldn't* help. There are no absolutes or guarantees, and it would be comparing apples to oranges, unless you had my niches, my domains, my traffic, my content - basically unless you stole everything that's in my head first (and I bite!) my experiences would likely not be the same for you. You might do better, you might do worse.

Does adding content help? I believe it helps me, but it's an experiment, and I don't think in terms of days or weeks, I think in terms of months and years. So ask me in a year. I also use PPC to drive traffic in some cases, and I believe the content helps in keeping my quality scores in the "great" category. And that's a whole different set of stuff that I'm doing that would be different from what you're doing. So the basis for comparison gets thinner and thinner.

Meanwhile, try it for yourself on one or two domains. It's not difficult; all it takes is time. If it doesn't work quickly enough for you, then remove the content. Or if you really want to do a studied test, take out two very similar domains, put content on one and no content on the other, rinse and repeat. Easy as pie.

 

[pardon]

Domain www.ToursOfJapan.com - heavily customized, 47 uniques today - zero clicks. Just as Netmeg said, it's too early to tell whether the heavy customization with lots of content and pictures encourages users to click on any link or if users are simply smarter than that, knowing that it's actually just a parked page, maybe take a look, but navigate away afterwards. My theory is that custom content, that's "coming from the heart", should overcome the "just a parked" site notion, this theory may be totally flawed though.
I'm running the tours domain completely on organic traffic, no links, no references, arbitrage,...nothing.
One thing that I would encourage parked to look into is different options of appearance (UI), Donny knows what i mean.

Other than that, everything seems to be running smooth again. Logically, my numbers for today are a bit lower, due to the outage and me pausing the campaigns. However, Donny already stated the reimbursement for downtime, which is yet another statement that they're taking good care of us.

IB

I like your customization work. How long have you got that domain on Parked because I can't find you through search engines if I type tours of japan. It only comes up for toursofjapan. Is the traffic you get mainly type in?

 

[netmeg]

I like your customization work. How long have you got that domain on Parked because I can't find you through search engines if I type tours of japan. It only comes up for toursofjapan. Is the traffic you get mainly type in?

You also have to be realistic. That Tours of Japan page is great - but it's an extremely competitive field, and it's always going to be a major challenge to get a parked page (however well customized and filled out) to rank highly over more developed sites in a highly competitive niche like travel. It can happen, cause I've seen 'em in the SERPS - but it's not easy.

Now, if I had that domain, and if, after a month or so I found I wasn't getting any kind of search engine love out of it (and didn't want to use PPC) I would probably re-think the customization a little - maybe take a look at a map, and pick a nice Japanese city or resort town, and customize/optimize it specifically for that location. Not Tokyo, or anything huge - but maybe something that doesn't have quite so much competition. And then see how it did there.

I'm not saying you should do that, IB - I'm just throwing it out there, if, after you've left it up a while, you decide it's not working as well as you'd hoped.

 

[gubera]

Does anyone else get a Fatal error on the parked.com page?

 

[-fp-]

Yes I do!

 

[Mike]

Yep, it's my insane traffic that broke the front end

IB

 

[-fp-]

No it must be mine IB! :hehe:

Fabian

 

[msingley]

Does anyone else get a Fatal error on the parked.com page?

I'm getting the same thing. My domains are still resolving, though.

 

[copper]

At least all my domains are in working order

 

[gubera]

I'm getting the same thing. My domains are still resolving, though.

My domains seem to be fine too.

 

[Varon]

I'm getting a fatal error too :
"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_additional_js() (previously declared in /www/phpinclude/utils.inc.php:1609) in /www/phpinclude/interface.inc.php on line 473"

Domains are working fine.

 

[Mike]

I'm getting a fatal error too :
"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_additional_js() (previously declared in /www/phpinclude/utils.inc.php:1609) in /www/phpinclude/interface.inc.php on line 473"

Domains are working fine.

In a way i'm not even too unhappy about that, whenever i'm close to a PC, my constant logging in or refreshing the stats screen has turned into a serious obsession... :lol:

IB

 

[DnPresident]

Arrrgh

I get......

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_additional_js() (previously declared in /www/phpinclude/utils.inc.php:1609) in /www/phpinclude/interface.inc.php on line 473

 

[mindless]

Yep, as much as i love the every 15 minute updates, my wife thinks I am a little too obsessive about checking EVERY 15 minutes

 

[Varon]

:lol:

In a way i'm not even too unhappy about that, whenever i'm close to a PC, my constant logging in or refreshing the stats screen has turned into a serious obsession...

IB

:lol: take it easy Mike.

 

[netmeg]

I'm glad someone is having insane traffic today; I'm sure not. I figured maybe the interwebs' series of tubes blew up or something.

 

[pardon]

My domains are fine too from the other side of the Atlantic. But how about clicks will Parked be able to trace them?

 

[gubera]

I figured maybe the interwebs' series of tubes blew up or something.

The interweb tubes gave up at line 473. The internet is now all broken, because of all the parked pages!

 

[-fp-]

Everything back to normal here at my end!

Fabian