PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[TOXX]

Not sure about everyone, but ever since Arbitrage died I've noticed an INCREASE in RPC! :tu:

 

[cybermonkey]

Not sure about everyone, but ever since Arbitrage died I've noticed an INCREASE in RPC! :tu:

Same here, the RPC is up almost double since Yahoo stopped accepting arbitrage traffic. My CTR is down of course. I've contacted my account manager regarding my sudden high RPC and got the following answer: "With the new rules instated by Yahoo, you will probably see a higher RPC from here on out because this policy is going to weed out a lot of the garbage traffic causing the value of clicks to go up across the board."

 

[madpoet]

Sorry, I just don't buy the garbage traffic argument for RPCs. *shrug* It's the same as it was with arbitrage, some people are saying it's going down and some are saying it's going up.

I can attest to the randomness of the account manager assignments... mine is Donny himself

 

[drjeff]

Does anyone have any success earning commissions by placing CJ affiliate links in the custom content area of parked.com pages?

Much appreciated if you can share any info - URLS or success stories.

-Jeff

 

[panterrasbox]

Does anyone have any success earning commissions by placing CJ affiliate links in the custom content area of parked.com pages?

Much appreciated if you can share any info - URLS or success stories.

-Jeff

It might work for some people, but it cut my CTR by 45% right away. So, I reversed it back to stock.

Not sure about everyone, but ever since Arbitrage died I've noticed an INCREASE in RPC! :tu:

Different stories for different people. My traffic tanked, CTR tanked, and RPC tanked. I have been seeking answers, but have found none so far.

 

[DnPresident]

I just looked at a name that got a few clicks and it's paying right at 1/3 what it was getting at one time? This is only one name so not much to base anything on but I guess you can put it in the loosers bracket.

Congrats to the ones seeing more.......

 

[Seabass]

Not sure about everyone, but ever since Arbitrage died I've noticed an INCREASE in RPC! :tu:

I saw a surge in PPC at the beginning but then it took a dip and is still running low. When I say surge/dip I mean about 10% up or 10% down .

One thing I have noticed recently that I find a little unusual, and I don't know if it is related to the new Panama system/ TQ system, is that when a particular "generic domain" starts to scream upward in traffic usually b/c of the season or holiday, (such as Christmas or camping domains), "without any expired traffic" links influencing those domains, the PPC price gravitates downward. It is almost as if Yahoo has a governor on the traffic to keep a payout on a particular domain from racking up a big tab really fast. It makes me wonder if this is some kind of governor created to downthrottle the PPC payout and stem PPC fraud, but the domainer gets the shorted in the name of fraud control when actually he or she provided more traffic.

Anyone else noticed this?

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[VirtualT]

I saw a surge in PPC at the beginning but then it took a dip and is still running low. When I say surge/dip I mean about 10% up or 10% down .

One thing I have noticed recently that I find a little unusual, and I don't know if it is related to the new Panama system/ TQ system, is that when a particular "generic domain" starts to scream upward in traffic usually b/c of the season or holiday, (such as Christmas or camping domains), "without any expired traffic" links influencing those domains, the PPC price gravitates downward. It is almost as if Yahoo has a governor on the traffic to keep a payout on a particular domain from racking up a big tab really fast. It makes me wonder if this is some kind of governor created to downthrottle the PPC payout and stem PPC fraud, but the domainer gets the shorted in the name of fraud control when actually he or she provided more traffic.

Anyone else noticed this?

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most definitely

 

[sumbini]

Sumbini,
Contact your account manager.

Donny

Thank you Donny!

You must contact your account manager to make that change.

and turner10!

-Sumbini

 

[Mike]

WOW! What used to be worth 65-78 cents per click is now getting reduced to 7 cents per click! And this applies across the board for over a week now. That's not just disheartening, that's downright miserable. Time to move on. :td:

M.

 

[kellyandbryan]

WOW! What used to be worth 65-78 cents per click is now getting reduced to 7 cents per click! And this applies across the board for over a week now. That's not just disheartening, that's downright miserable. Time to move on. :td:

M.

couldn't agree more

 

[Donny]

Mike - Send me an example of a keyword that used to pay 65-70 cents that is now paying 7 cents. Our overall RPC has actually gone up 2 cents since arbitrage went away. So a drop that big doesn't make much sense.

** After a little research I found the keyword you were talking about. The same keyword on 2/20 was clicked out twice and you averaged $0.87 RPC on that day both clicks were from the US and they were position #1 and #2, the highest paying clicks. On 2/24 you had 3 clicks, only 2 were paid for. First click was from the UK and it was position #4, the second and third click was on position #6. I'm assuming one of the double clicks were not paid for. This is why you saw such a big drop in RPC. When you have a large number of clicks things always average out, but with a smaller number of clicks you will see a large change like in this case.

I have accounts at every parking company that will let me in and everyone of them my RPC takes huge jumps up and down everyday, because I don't have thousands of clicks with each one everyday.

Donny

 

[phlegma]

I'd love to register at parked, but I prefer to use ASCII characters (!,@,#,$,%...) in my password, which they don't seem to allow at the time.

 

[Avo19]

I'd love to register at parked, but I prefer to use ASCII characters (!,@,#,$,%...) in my password, which they don't seem to allow at the time.

I think maybe you're a tad too paranoid

 

[Sameh]

Received this email from Yahoo! Search Marketing a few minutes ago.

Pricing Update:
Minimum Bids will no Longer be Fixed at $0.10

Starting in the next several weeks, the minimum bids for a number of Sponsored Search keywords will no longer be fixed at $0.10. Your new minimum bids can be lower or higher than $0.10 Content Match minimum bids currently will remain at $0.10
.....................

 

[mrizos]

Received this email from Yahoo! Search Marketing a few minutes ago.

Sounds like all PPC's are getting their nads squeezed today...boo hoo..

 

[Donny]

Actually I think this is a good move by Yahoo which they should have done years ago. It's about time they do something smart. Oops, did I say that outloud.

Donny

 

[Sameh]

Actually I think this is a good move by Yahoo which they should have done years ago. It's about time they do something smart. Oops, did I say that outloud.

Donny

Why do you think it's a good move? Mind sharing?

Is it about drive more advertisers? because i don't think this will make a huge difference. :imho:

 

[Donny]

If I'm an advertiser and I'm bidding on the long tail to keep costs down, I'm bidding on "fuzzy dice in tampa", with Yahoo I currently pay $0.10 for that keyword, with Google I pay $0.05. I personally would probably spend my money with Google since I would say 5 cents. With the lowering of the price by Yahoo the only thing it could do is actually increase the number of advertisers on the long tail keywords.

Just my 2 cents.

Donny

 

[healingsites]

In case it gets moved off the page, I had a chance to interview Donny at the recent TRAFFIC show. He's a lot of fun in person too. The thread is here

Thanks, Donny!