PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[tonyfloyd]

nice....over 100% down after final stats.....gotta love that!...Donny...can u top this tomorrow?....this is so much fun...thank u......may i have another???.....im so freakin pissed...im getting delirious....

 

[Shaggy]

I am trying to understand all this Donny, But it is hard, when i take a name to an ASK feed, That was at Parked, I was getting 0.14 a click at Parked, I get 0.32 at the other company, and that on an straight "ASK" feed.

I took a name that was paying 0.43 at Parked, Moved it to parking service that is "straight Yahoo feed", The name gets $1.83 a click

What straight ASK feed are you using, Bodis? If so, then you can't compare the 2, because Bodis offers 100% rev share and Parked does not.

And Donny, sorry to ask this again, but were you able to look over my PM to you at DNF about my name?

 

[Donny]

I am trying to understand all this Donny, But it is hard, when i take a name to an ASK feed, That was at Parked, I was getting 0.14 a click at Parked, I get 0.32 at the other company, and that on an straight "ASK" feed.

I took a name that was paying 0.43 at Parked, Moved it to parking service that is "straight Yahoo feed", The name gets $1.83 a click

On an Ask feed the RPC is estimated, so you can't ever compare a Yahoo or Google feed to an Ask feed at all. If you can find somebody with an Ask feed that is paying you too much, I would definitely recommend sending them more traffic. Most people here know of somebody who had a full Ask feed that was paying a lot of adult traffic and they were sending all of their adult traffic to that company until that company recently lowered their RPC for adult terms. Remember with Ask it's completely up to the parking company to pay whatever they want to whoever they want.

If you are getting $1.83 for a click on a Yahoo feed and it's the same keyword and the same advertiser and we are only paying you $0.43, then use them. I don't see how it would be possible, but if you can do it I would got for it. But now if you are talking about how domain A with us averages $0.43 a click and at company B averages $1.83 then that's a completely different story. It also depends on if we are talking about 1 click or 20 clicks.

Donny

 

[GILSAN]

On an Ask feed the RPC is estimated, so you can't ever compare a Yahoo or Google feed to an Ask feed at all. If you can find somebody with an Ask feed that is paying you too much, I would definitely recommend sending them more traffic. Most people here know of somebody who had a full Ask feed that was paying a lot of adult traffic and they were sending all of their adult traffic to that company until that company recently lowered their RPC for adult terms. Remember with Ask it's completely up to the parking company to pay whatever they want to whoever they want.

If you are getting $1.83 for a click on a Yahoo feed and it's the same keyword and the same advertiser and we are only paying you $0.43, then use them. I don't see how it would be possible, but if you can do it I would got for it. But now if you are talking about how domain A with us averages $0.43 a click and at company B averages $1.83 then that's a completely different story. It also depends on if we are talking about 1 click or 20 clicks.

Donny

Donny, could you please explain me something. Since I live outside of the USA I notice that all my domains show meanwhile.com followed by my domain name. Does this mean that they are all using the Ask feed?

All my Adult domains show mustangranch.com followed by my domain name. Is it also the Ask feed?

GIL

 

[tonyfloyd]

so....u guys use an ASK feed also..right?....and that means u can pay us whatever u want?..as u stated above?

 

[.X.]

On an Ask feed the RPC is estimated, so you can't ever compare a Yahoo or Google feed to an Ask feed at all. If you can find somebody with an Ask feed that is paying you too much, I would definitely recommend sending them more traffic. Most people here know of somebody who had a full Ask feed that was paying a lot of adult traffic and they were sending all of their adult traffic to that company until that company recently lowered their RPC for adult terms. Remember with Ask it's completely up to the parking company to pay whatever they want to whoever they want.

If you are getting $1.83 for a click on a Yahoo feed and it's the same keyword and the same advertiser and we are only paying you $0.43, then use them. I don't see how it would be possible, but if you can do it I would got for it. But now if you are talking about how domain A with us averages $0.43 a click and at company B averages $1.83 then that's a completely different story. It also depends on if we are talking about 1 click or 20 clicks.

Donny

I think i understand somewhat now, It is a monopoly of different circumstances and scenarios, with each different parking provider -VS- Feed syndication provider, ect and ect, So dang confusing, But i do understand much better now.

 

[Donny]

shaggy - All done.

tony - We pay people what they are owned for click, not whatever we want. We have over 7 years of historical click pricing that we use to calculate what to pay somebody for when they click on our Ask feed. We have no way of paying you more than you deserve for a click, sorry.

Gil - Yahoo covers http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/int.php except for India. Ask covers everything else and anything Yahoo rejects. All non-adult domains go to meanwhile.com, all adult domains go to mustangranch.com.

Donny

I think i understand somewhat now, It is monopoly of different circumstances and scenarios, with each different parking provider -VS- Feed syndication provider, ect and ect, So dang confusing, But i do understand much better now.

Give it a month or so and things will hopefully be easier to understand.

Donny

 

[rickkumar]

Q: Is India traffic sent to yahoo or ask feed?
Please advise.

Thanks.

 

[tonyfloyd]

donny ...u said this earlier....."Remember with Ask it's completely up to the parking company to pay whatever they want to whoever they want."....and then u said this...."We pay people what they are owned for click, not whatever we want. We have over 7 years of historical click pricing that we use to calculate what to pay somebody for when they click on our Ask feed. We have no way of paying you more than you deserve for a click, sorry.".....so...which one is it?.....a lil confused.....

 

[GILSAN]

Gil - Yahoo covers http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/int.php except for India. Ask covers everything else and anything Yahoo rejects. All non-adult domains go to meanwhile.com, all adult domains go to mustangranch.com.

Donny

Give it a month or so and things will hopefully be easier to understand.

Does that mean that the ASK feed is lower quality and subsequently pays less than Yahoo or Google? Or am I confusing things?

GIL

 

[tonyfloyd]

yes...ask is a 2nd tier lower paying feed.....and then...the parking provider can pay u whatever they want from that......right Donny?

 

[thebutler]

English canada traffic is covered by Ask?

Gil - Yahoo covers http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/int.php except for India. Ask covers everything else and anything Yahoo rejects. All non-adult domains go to meanwhile.com, all adult domains go to mustangranch.com.

Donny

Donny when I look at that list at searchmarketing I noticed it said Canada (French) but not English. So you could assume that Canada (ENGLISH) is covered by Ask. Most of my domains should be getting plenty of English Canada traffic (.ca domains). Interested to know.

Thanks
db

 

[Avo19]

Donny when I look at that list at searchmarketing I noticed it said Canada (French) but not English. So you could assume that Canada (ENGLISH) is covered by Ask. Most of my domains should be getting plenty of English Canada traffic (.ca domains). Interested to know.

Thanks
db

or they lump Canada (English) under US....

 

[Name Trader]

Gil - Yahoo covers http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/int.php except for India. Ask covers everything else and anything Yahoo rejects. All non-adult domains go to meanwhile.com, all adult domains go to mustangranch.com.

I'm in the same boat as Gil. Being from outside US I only ever see the meanwhile and mustangranch pages when visiting my domains. Is there any way you could give us a preview of any domain in our account using the Yahoo feed?

kingdolar - The TQ score is in one case used as a discounting tool. So if you have a TQ of 10, then the advertiser should have to pay the full price for any clicks that you send to them. On the other extreme if somebody is a 1 then the advertiser will get a discount of original price * TQ discount. So if a click was $1.00 and you are a 1, that means the advertiser will pay less, I don't know the exact numbers, but I have seen it vary from only having to pay 90 cents to 50 cents for the click.

Anything from a 1 to a 3, Yahoo doesn't like and you definitely need to improve or one day you will receive an email from me or our traffic quality team. Your account manager should be able to work with you on improving your score if you are in this range.

Donny

what do Yahoo pay for an account with no score?

 

[.X.]

I'm in the same boat as Gil. Being from outside US I only ever see the meanwhile and mustangranch pages when visiting my domains. Is there any way you could give us a preview of any domain in our account using the Yahoo feed?



what do Yahoo pay for an account with no score?

The thing that most concerns me with the redirect to MeanWhile And MustangRanch, Is the possibility of a LARGE bounce ratio.

yes...ask is a 2nd tier lower paying feed.....and then...the parking provider can pay u whatever they want from that......right Donny?

You make great points in this thread "tonyfloyd":tu:

 

[madman12]

Donny just curious

these bots that have been hitting us will they make a diffrence in our TQ scores?

 

[Varon]

What do Yahoo pay for an account with no score?

Yes...thats a very interesting question. Donny, if a parked portfolio just happens to always be in the daily click numbers between 60-80 for months, and never hits 100 clicks a day, will that portfolio ever get a TQ score? And in the case of a person with no score, what rate does Yahoo pay that person?

 

[tonyfloyd]

Yes...thats a very interesting question. Donny, if a parked portfolio just happens to always be in the daily click numbers between 60-80 for months, and never hits 100 clicks a day, will that portfolio ever get a TQ score? And in the case of a person with no score, what rate does Yahoo pay that person?

Donny....and the answer is??

 

[Seabass]

Donny....and the answer is??

I think less than 100 clicks and you get no TQ score, but the second question is interesting. Maybe it is calculated, but just not published.

My TQ has gone back to a 10 from a 9 and this time my revenue, less obvious bots, has stabilized. Before, rev. was lower when TQ was higher.

I still have not seen a downward correction of over 18% or so yet - worse case scenario. Excluding obvious bots, that is.

It really seems to me that every time they mess with the TQ it gets screwy for 10 days or so and then settles in to a regular pattern. That's been my take so far.

I feel for you though. That is not fun and can be destabilizing in ones life to see a rev. collapse. It can be very upsetting.

Some of this is just the economy - it has to be at this point.

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[Shaggy]

shaggy - All done.
Donny

Awesome Donny! Thanks