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Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
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zenon said:Question for those of you with Quality Score experience:
What's the monetary effect of a change in Quality Score? If you were at 3 and then it changes to 9, would you expect your RPC to triple?
And what time period should it affect? If my Q score goes up in the middle of a pay period how long does the monetary effect, if any last?
I would appreciate hearing any feedback on this. Thanks.
Seabass said:PowerUp, stop buying search engine and back-link domains. That traffic will go up in smoke eventually anyhow.
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Roderick,goodkarmaco said:Gilson,
when you lived in the U.S thru the seventies, were you into domains?.
Opps there were none! This domain thing does not have a whole lot of history to help us when the tide turns does it?. It makes it difficult to understand why parking revenue is down too. Has anyone here been thru a very sharp down cycle as big as the one we are experiencing now?
I don't want to take up space in this thread with issues I am trying to wrap my mind around. The thing is I only have a few names in Parked so I don't seem to have much to say about parking anymore. It pretty much came to my conclusion that spending too much time chasing the parking revenue is not in my best interests.
I only know big shit is going on and soon the internet will be overloaded with folks trying to find out the truth. Seems like some smart person or company can combine that traffic with domain names. Then domainers would hear ka-ching again.
thebutler said:Seabass, I know you know what the deal is with domains but sometimes buying domains with backlinks works. I'm not talking big dollars here (close to reg fee or low $XX) but I've had some luck with a few.
I've had a few domains in this price range pay for themselves in one month and they keep making money even six months after. I'm sure most people would not mind having a reg fee domain make anywhere from .10 to .50 cents per day. So yes they are not big bucks but for some folks spending $XX dollars is a wise investment in learning the ropes and limiting their exposure to mistakes.
goodkarmaco said:Gilson,
.......................... Opps there were none! This domain thing does not have a whole lot of history to help us when the tide turns does it?. It makes it difficult to understand why parking revenue is down too. Has anyone here been thru a very sharp down cycle as big as the one we are experiencing now?...................................
Was this drop in 2000 related to the Nasdaq Bubble in the late 90's?.Seabass said:Yes...there was a much, much larger down time. The year was 2000, second half, and everyone was talking about Dot Bomb with a laugh instead of saying Dot Com. The recession was not as bad for the U.S. as it is now, but it was horrible for the Net - much worse than it is now. At least we have parking available to us as an option these days.
In 2000 there was no domain parking available to the standard domainer so it was a time where I picked up the phone and said to an advertiser, "Hey, the Internet is still alive and I got this nice domain here that has people coming to it and it may be useful to your business to have this traffic." Then he or she would say, "Why in the world are there people coming to the domain?" And then I would have to go on to explain to them that simply b/c the domain was so good that people just type it in. Sometimes a light bulb went off and sometimes it did not. If I could convince them to try, they almost never stopped the listing service for a link.
So virtually every "domainer" (term did not exist in 2000) had to work above and beyond the work required to find domains, in order to be able to monetize them in some fashion and make a profit.
Much, much harder indeed, yet still easier than driving to a downtown job everyday. I'd pick up that phone again before I drive an hour each way to work. :talk: :talk: :talk: :talk:
GILSAN said:Was this drop in 2000 related to the Nasdaq Bubble in the late 90's?.
What about nine-eleven, did that also have an effect on domains at the time?
GIL
Seabass said:On another note, my RPC is doing a lot better at Parked. What about y'alls?
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PowerUp said:............. My RPC is about the same as 2 weeks ago. However, total clicks and visitors are dropping..............
goodkarmaco said:I was not into domains back during the dot com bust. From my studies of history and economics I came to the conclusion the bust was not about internet traffic. The dot com bust was because the bubble that was created under the Federal reserve chairman Alan Greenspans watch crashed Wall St.
The bubble led to speculative loans and just like the Real Estate bubble today that grew from 2001 to late 2006 was a smoke and mirrors way to stimulate the economy, the dot com bust had its roots founded in money that had no backing and was printed in excess.
That money is debt money, to be paid for by future taxes.
So thru no fault of advertisers, the net or domainers or parking companies the dot com era fizzled because Wall St was very cleaver in packaging and selling any start up company and then "sold" investors into the furnace.
The facts were there all along that this was being fueled by easy fiat money and was not a true marketplace.
This scene today with re-packaging sub-prime loans seems like deja-vue.
goodkarmaco said:..... Dot-coms wasted millions of dollars per night on frivolous parties. Hard work was never part of the picture for dot-commers.
advaita said:The dotcom bubble was also fuelled by the people with the big money...
~ Cyberian ~ said:Ok, lets get this thread focused back on topic.
There have been some interesting posts about the doom and gloom of the future, but this is the Parked.com thread.
Cy
I agree. I was enjoying those posts about the stagnating economy etc. These themes at least keep this thread alive, which as you say has become a bit stagnant. These conversations give us a better insight of the implications that an economic downturn can have on the Domaining business,Seabass said:This is true.
You would have to be living in a swamp with no form of communication to not have heard about the housing and dollar crisis in the U.S
Honestly though, so little is happening at Parked and elsewhere it feels like things are stagnating - so not much to talk about. Even the domain bloggers are posting less and less.
The only thing I can add is that my RPC has been trending upwards at Parked to a more respectable level, but I am still way down in total earnings.
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