PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[TheWatcher]

Google advertisers can see the conversions from parked domains now.

Yahoo will noticed this too and it will be a common approach in search engine, time to develop your domain.

 

[ArtfulWebSites]

Conversions Form Parked Pages

Google advertisers can see the conversions from parked domains now.

The real question is: are the conversions from parked pages "good" and any different from "real pages"?

My guess is that some are "good" and some are "poor" - just like the conversions from "real pages". It depends on the niche and the mindset of the respective visitors. I will also venture to guess that the conversions from some parked pages are better than many "real pages" due to CTR-optimized page designs.

Hopefully the advertisers will finally see that and we may see a partial reversal of this recent dramatic slump in parking revenues.

Let's all hope...

 

[netmeg]

Google advertisers can see the conversions from parked domains now.

It's buried, but yes, now you can see an aggregate. But you can't tell WHICH parked domain, or whether it's on the Search or the Content Network, as you can with a site placement report, nor can that information be pulled into Reports or Google Analytics (as far as I know) But it's a start.

 

[TOXX]

I can't put in words how much i despise Google.
Easy to go after the little guy and practically disable the majority of domain owners with one swift kick to the ... "DNS".
What's next? Having to ask Google whether i'm allowed to register a domain or what i'm allowed to do with it?!
Oh, hold on. We already can't do what we want with it and expect revenue, because the Gods at Google dislike the parking decisions.
Amazing how quickly my day can be ruined.

Back to the parked thread.
M.

Mike, I can OFFICIALLY STATE that there is ABSOLUTELY NO JUSTICE in the domain/internet world...as I feel FIRST HAND with a vile and ruthless company trying to file lawsuits and completely RIDICULOUS complaints against one of my top domains for the SOLE REASON of REVERSE DOMAIN HIJACKING!!!
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As Donny once told me, "Welcome to the REAL WORLD!"...
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It really IS in OUR best interest to SUPPORT each other as "domainers"...and not try to knock each other down...ESPECIALLY THESE DAYS!
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Back to our PARKED thread...

 

[madpoet]

On the flip side though... a lot of people aren't even smart enough to find this and turn ot off. So I guess that's something

 

[winst]

I seem to have the best month yet at Parked. I only have about 60 domain names at Parked, my revenue is up and mostly from real estate domain names.

 

[ebatcave]

Do you just use the default keywords or come up with your own?

 

[winst]

Do you just use the default keywords or come up with your own?

I almost always manually enter my own keywords. Most of my domain names are not generic words, so I use Google keyword tool to find the highest paying keywords that is closest to what my domain name is about.

 

[svfox]

Is anyone else having trouble with their account.
I can log in then it locks all up. If I try to view a parked website it won't even connect.

 

[johname]

Is anyone else having trouble with their account.
I can log in then it locks all up. If I try to view a parked website it won't even connect.

No problems loging in and moving around my account

 

[evilopinions]

701 63 $2.25 8.99% $0.03 $1.58

Someone killed my cat. :td:

 

[svfox]

nevermind, it was me.

 

[Broker]

2 cents in the last 8 days

 

[packrat]

Got my first $0.01 click at Parked yesterday. Depressing!

 

[netmeg]

Got my first $0.01 click at Parked yesterday. Depressing!

Hey, me too. Also a $0.04 click at Fab. What a day...

 

[Mike]

I went from checking my stats a few times every hour to hardly wanting to log in at all.
This pay period I'm at a whopping $5 ... i remember days where it was well in the 4 digits by now... depressing doesn't even begin to describe my feelings..

M.

 

[winst]

I went from checking my stats a few times every hour to hardly wanting to log in at all.
This pay period I'm at a whopping $5 ... i remember days where it was well in the 4 digits by now... depressing doesn't even begin to describe my feelings..

M.

Wow, 4 digits and now only $5, that was a big drop! I've collecting domain names for a while, but only started to do parking 3 years ago. I only broke even last year, and now that my portfolio is profitable, it is no where near where my day job makes. I had high hopes for parking, but it was not as easy as I thought.

 

[advaita]

That's a horrendous drop Mike - were you getting the visitors from arbitrage before ?

 

[Mike]

That's a horrendous drop Mike - were you getting the visitors from arbitrage before ?

Yep, primarily. Which gets to show that arbitrage did convert well. If users hadn't found what they were looking for, they wouldn't have clicked on a single link. From 300% ROI to ... $5 :lol:
Anyways, it's yesterday's pain. Arbitrage at Parked is dead and it seems that it won't be coming back anytime soon. As well as Google has yet again understood to make our life's more miserable by their recent changes in how clients can choose their ad placement.
Considering the bigger picture, we all stand to loose more than ever before. Including the parking companies. The ones that will come out ahead are the hosting companies, as it seems that developing is the last frontier.

However, i'm banking on Donny's/Parked.com's ingenuity to develop a platform to overcome the current obstacles.

M.

 

[TheWatcher]

It's too bad, I slowly feel the pain with parking services including my revenue in Parked despite the fact I don't have arbitrage advertising. It's a domino effect from google to parking to domainer.

Well I decided to develop them one by one, building a programmer club within my network to develop our domains.

Instead of waiting, we just started our forum domain e.g. www.multiforums.com as pilot development, then other domain to follow.

“Even if you think you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” (Will Rogers)