PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[madpoet]

The reason it's hard is because ome of us are making more than we were a month ago. My EPC has gone significantly up in several niches. So it's just not a company-wide thing. There are so many variables... what countries do you drive traffic from, what niches are you in, what is your specific keyword phrase. The list goes on and on. I'm not sure there is an answer beyond the changing nature of the market.

 

[tonyfloyd]

traffic is coming from the same countries as before....US and Canada...niche is auto related....keyword phrase is same as before.....so?

 

[thebutler]

Is it the same traffic?

traffic is coming from the same countries as before....US and Canada...niche is auto related....keyword phrase is same as before.....so?

Tony not sure of what numbers you're driving and what the auto niche is but it might be a case of the same traffic. Is it possible you're just getting return visitors via your ads? Soem end users might stop clicking if they keep get directed to the same parked page. One possible issue.

Maybe a slight change in your ad campign would drive an interested but new audience.

 

[tonyfloyd]

im still getting clicks.....however...the clicks are now a lot less than they were before

 

[madpoet]

traffic is coming from the same countries as before....US and Canada...niche is auto related....keyword phrase is same as before.....so?

So maybe your niche is just bad now? It does happen...

 

[tonyfloyd]

PS....are all parked sites down??...i'm getting white blank pages....????

So maybe your niche is just bad now? It does happen...

i dont think that is it

 

[cunyalen]

Hi guys, I have a few newbie questions.

I was using my domains for something else before. Some websites have my domains info about old site or for sales. If I go to google search, I can still find some posts and websites with my domain names info. Now these domains are parked. According to the policy, we can't do any ads. I wonder if I need find those old posts and delete them.

Another question is, are we allowed to click on our own domains?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Chris.]

Another question is, are we allowed to click on our own domains?

Your not allowed to click on the sponsored links on your domains.

 

[GILSAN]

PS....are all parked sites down??...i'm getting white blank pages....????

I have the same problem. Only Blank pages. Anyone else with the same problem?

GIL

 

[tonyfloyd]

maybe Yahoo going out of biz?...lol

 

[Chris.]

I have the same problem. Only Blank pages. Anyone else with the same problem?

GIL

Mine seem to be ok from the United Kingdom maybe its a country router problem.

 

[bradocconor]

mine were down but back up now

 

[keios]

I am a bit confused. You guys are talking about a bit of everything. Of course i have had a lack of sleep lately.

 

[biohammer]

everything is fine on my sites ,well they are showing up I mean.
Has anyone else noticed that other parked sites are showing up in the search results more often lately ...I also notice traffic to my site from other Parked sites.....Hmmn maybe its always been that way.

 

[domainpark]

Hi guys, I have a few newbie questions.

I was using my domains for something else before. Some websites have my domains info about old site or for sales. If I go to google search, I can still find some posts and websites with my domain names info. Now these domains are parked. According to the policy, we can't do any ads. I wonder if I need find those old posts and delete them.

Another question is, are we allowed to click on our own domains?

Thanks in advance.

Self clicking is a MAJOR MAJOR NO NO

That in itself will get a acct deleted with any parking co.

As far as links on other sites that was from a pre existing site. That's 100% ok. In fact this program does allow arbritrage style traffic. Go through this thread, there are posts in ref to this style of traffic.

 

[mrizos]

Just curious guys...have you seen a major drop in adwords traffic?

 

[bradocconor]

traffic is slow today hopefully it picks up now that church is letting out

 

[Seabass]

My revenue has stabilized at Parked finally, but only after I dropped to a 9 from a 10.

I recently read a report about Fabulous.com and they said their uniques per domain (500,000 domains ) had dropped from an average of 4 uniques per day in 2005 to 2 uniques per day in 2007, but rising click prices have offset the drop in uniques.

The year over year drop in uniques is something I have been noticing since about 1999. When you keep adding domains and see your "overall" uniques going up in your various portfolios, it's easy to overlook how each individual domain's uniques are dropping.

Now there is MySpace, FaceBook, iPods, more video game participation, more parked domains, more developed domains, etc..... and.....you slap a bad economy, a screwy Yahoo TQ score effect, greedy ISP's contolling user intent, IE typo redirects etc..... it is no wonder we all feel like we are getting bent over the barrel...... so to speak.

 

[GILSAN]

Yesterdays Finalized stats are out. After 3 stable days I got clobbered with a 45% drop. Pretty disheartening. Wish Donny knew what's hapenning. I'm sure if he does, he will let us know.

GIL

 

[bradocconor]

I dropped about 20%