PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[RevGen]

Is parked.com going to keep it's ask feed?

Hello,

My first post here. Hope I'm putting it in the right section.

I've got domains parked at a number of different parking companies.

I was about to sign up for parked.com, mainly because so many people seem quite happy with the results they are getting there.

I'm hesitating to sign up, as I've read some posts that say that the ask feed is going to be cut on March 1st, which is coming up very shortly. Does anyone know if this is true? Has a rep from Parked.com talked about this somewhere?

It would be helpful for me if someone from parked.com commented about this, as I don't want to spend too much time setting things up there, only to find out that this feed will be lost.

I'm pretty new to all this, so I'm wondering what will happen to traffic that gets sent to parked.com if they lose their ask feed?

Which kind of traffic at parked.com goes to ask, and which goes to yahoo?
Is it based on country of origin, or based on keywords, or both?

I'm hoping that if they lose their ask feed, that something else will replace it so revenue doesn't drop. If something is going to replace it, what will it be?

Thanks!

 

[Amma]

thebutler, hitchhicker,
Thanks for the info guys... I believe I did do some good research using tools that are out there and I was always suspicious of the stats on TDNAM, though I didn't realize it was that bad, 10% of the number would suck. The biggest draw for me is it has the same name as a popular .net site and I bought the .com name, my thought is even when the back links dry up there will still be people trying to get to the popular .net site and typing .com instead. If I park the site with parked.com and populate it with the content cache on archive.org would that keep it from dropping of the search engine index?

If the domain is .com and the .net has been developed and the site is popular then no need backlink or PR there must be traffic according to the .net popularity.

 

[gingeman]

Has anyone else ever noticed a strange consistency with parked stats? I have been with them for several months and moved names from several other places. I have never seen a greater daily fluctuation in the number of visitors than 50, and my revenue is nearly always around the same mark too. It isn't that the names are that consistent either, as it is always a varying combination of what names are getting the visitors and clicks. I should also mention there are over 100 names in my account there so this s not just a sample over 1 or 2 names...

Is there a reason for this? My names at other parking companies are much less consistent, some days $2 and 100 visitors, the next $25 and 1000 etc...

Its not that I am complaining, obviously consistency is good, but it does seem a little strange just how consistent my portfolio at parked is...

 

[johname]

Is there a reason for this? My names at other parking companies are much less consistent, some days $2 and 100 visitors, the next $25 and 1000 etc...

Its not that I am complaining, obviously consistency is good, but it does seem a little strange just how consistent my portfolio at parked is...

Its probally that parked does a better job of not counting the ugly bot traffic that other companys may be counting.

 

[cybermonkey]

I have recently decided to optimize all of my domains at Parked. I've added content, pictures, tags, discriptions, etc. However, all I am getting is hits but no cliks. Is there something I am doing wrong?

 

[Mike]

I have recently decided to optimize all of my domains at Parked. I've added content, pictures, tags, discriptions, etc. However, all I am getting is hits but no cliks. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Most likely you're experiencing the same thing that plagues me. Your site(s) are found because of the images listed, which are picked up by Google. You'll see great traffic from these, but horrible to non-existent CTR. Example: ToursOfJapan.com - up to 70 uniques/day w.o any advertising, never had arbitrage run on it. traffic is almost solely through the images - CTR is at 4% +/- a few. It's saddening, sickening and disturbing at the same time.
The problem is, the symptoms are apparent ... the cure is???

M.

 

[panterrasbox]

I have a theory...

It seems that every day I see exactly 1 visit to about 6 of my low traffic domains parked at Parked. No clicks. The next day it is a different 6. No clicks. Next day, same thing.

After seeing this for months and months, my idea is that maybe Parked is crawling my list of Parked domains to validate them or something; or would my registrar be doing it? Any thoughts?

 

[johname]

maybe Parked is crawling my list of Parked domains

i really dont believe parked would count that as a vistor

 

[kemjika11]

I have a theory...

It seems that every day I see exactly 1 visit to about 6 of my low traffic domains parked at Parked. No clicks. The next day it is a different 6. No clicks. Next day, same thing.

After seeing this for months and months, my idea is that maybe Parked is crawling my list of Parked domains to validate them or something; or would my registrar be doing it? Any thoughts?

A mysterious theory, but i have experienced it before. I've assumed its normal, and i expected it to go up or down overall, but i don't think that has happened yet.

 

[panterrasbox]

i really dont believe parked would count that as a vistor

Right, makes sense. Hmmm. I am just trying to figure out this methodical "testing" (or is it tasting?); like being probed by some alien race preparing to invade the domain industry on Earth

 

[whitebark]

Sure! ...try my THRILLED.MOBI for instance mrizos

what's the ctr like?

 

[Chris.]

goodkarmaco & seabass rep added to you both, good read on your long posts.

 

[Carlton]

Does anyone know for sure if the links contained on Parked.com mobi pages link to mobile compliant, or mobi-friendly, websites?

 

[Avo19]

Does anyone know for sure if the links contained on Parked.com mobi pages link to mobile compliant, or mobi-friendly, websites?

This site ready.mobi might be of use in checking compliancy.

 

[artofnet]

Yes Donny, we hope you bring a good news for us as a parked mania

I will be at the Traffic show next week in Vegas, so I should hopefully get some good answers then.

Donny

 

[DnPresident]

This site ready.mobi might be of use in checking compliancy.

Handy tool, thanks Avo19........The parking company I'm trying out got a score of 3.

an estimated wifi speed of 1.02 and 3g at 1.46?

 

[TOXX]

what's the ctr like?

Nothing to brag about............YET!

 

[goodkarmaco]

Thks Bluebecker

 

[packrat]

Yes, speaking of Parked...for the first day after the end of arb it looked like
RPC was going up. Appears that isn't so - after three more days my RPC continues
to drop. Anyone else notice the same thing?

 

[thetruman]

Yes, clicks are on the bottom edge of the usual range :td: