PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Varon]

As I said, I'm not lucky enough to have this quantity of traffic on this day so I guess Donny would be your man after all.

Dave C

Dave, I'm not that lucky either, but just trying to think up methods to improve the Q score. I'm at a 6 now for the past 4 weeks after 6 weeks at a 10. So, I'm definitely concerned Dave.

 

[d0main]

I just moved to Parked. The pay is good but my CTR is low at 11%. I have optimized all of my domains. I've heard that it's usually at around 20-25 for normal accounts. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[henniemeijer]

If you have just moved your domains over is it not a bit quick for conclusions about ctr?
While optimizing you may have clicked on all your domains and that does not help your click through rate I assume.

 

[Seabass]

I just moved to Parked. The pay is good but my CTR is low at 11%. I have optimized all of my domains. I've heard that it's usually at around 20-25 for normal accounts. Anyone have any suggestions?

It should not be that low if you are using appropriate keywords.

Is it all expired traffic? I would think so, but even still you should be able to get it up higher unless it is really bad traffic.

I usually run b/t 40% to 50% CTR for my entire portfolio of generics at Parked currently.....it used to be much higher until I added much more foreign traffic.

 

[zabijaq]

Seabass has point, expired traffic usually makes much lower CTR as those people expect site they know.

 

[d0main]

it's not expired traffic. I had the same CTR rate at sedo

 

[Seabass]

it's not expired traffic. I had the same CTR rate at sedo

Check the advertisers for the keywords on both Google and Yahoo to see which ones have better advertisers and then keep experimenting b/t parking providers that use the feed with the best advertisers.

When you get a dog domain like that the only way to make money from it is to keep experimenting until you find something that works.

You may even want to try checking your keyword searches at Parked and see if the surfers are searching for something you overlooked, and then change the keywords to match that subject.

 

[beyondthetone]

Option for one page click through?

Not sure if this question was answered before or not but is there an option to have a 1 or 2 page click through on the parked sites? One of my sites has a 1 page click through and the other has 2. Can I change that in the control panel?

Thanks

 

[tonyfloyd]

Not sure if this question was answered before or not but is there an option to have a 1 or 2 page click through on the parked sites? One of my sites has a 1 page click through and the other has 2. Can I change that in the control panel?

Thanks

no...cant change in control panel...or anywhere else for that matter...Yahoo dictates this....

 

[beyondthetone]

Thanks

Oh ok thanks
I just think I would have a better ctr with the 1 page :td:

 

[d0main]

my stats for today (I viewed my own pages about 4 times, and did 0 searches):

2008-10-08 * 20uv 24searches 1click 5.00% $0.11 total revenue

 

[Web Trader]

Yesterday I had about $10 in loan clicks for a certain domain. Today they are all gone, but in the traffic analysis report there is a Yahoo search which appears that it may have been for the exact phrase of the domain itself, either plural or singular. It's one of those long search url's that is cut off in the Parked.com screen with a "..." at the end, but when you put as much as there is into an address bar, you get this much that the visitor used (without the quotes):

Search: "ExampleRegion ExampleLoanType TheLetterL"

It's a three word domain for a major US region consisting of "ExampleRegion ExampleLoanType Loans." When you do that three word search in Yahoo, the site comes up on page 1.

It just seems odd to me that with a natural search like that, all the clicks would have been removed. Today it's just showing 1 visitor and 0 clicks for the domain. Normally I wouldn't be posting this, but this one just seems really out of place to me. So, if anyone has insight into what could have happend, would appreciate your thoughts, and if you can squeeze this one in, Donny, would of course appreciate if you had any info about that.

On a different note, I noticed there's been a little talk above about layouts. Some weeks ago I had a perfect opportunity to hear what a total nondomainer had to say about his impression of an actual Parked.com page. It was an absolutely perfect opportunity to get a totally frank statement from someone I knew was looking at one, but I wasn't going to tell him a thing, only hear what he said. Now, probably a lot of us here, self included have always felt that the Parked pages are great and among our favorites of all parking pages in terms of aesthetics and so forth, likely to appeal enough to "normal" visitors and get good conversions, etc. To my surprise and I'm sorry to say disappointment, the first thing I recall out of his mouth was just something like "It's for sale" (but it wasn't for sale at all) and then he made a number of frankly discouraging remarks indicating his belief that it was just a parking page, for sale, yada, yada, and the most memorable statement of all was him saying literally that it looked like one of those "parked" pages, although he's probably never heard of "Parked" itself in his life. I thought about posting this then but decided against it. Now I figure, why not, maybe it can help in some way.

 

[Seabass]

On a different note, I noticed there's been a little talk above about layouts. Some weeks ago I had a perfect opportunity to hear what a total nondomainer had to say about his impression of an actual Parked.com page. It was an absolutely perfect opportunity to get a totally frank statement from someone I knew was looking at one, but I wasn't going to tell him a thing, only hear what he said. Now, probably a lot of us here, self included have always felt that the Parked pages are great and among our favorites of all parking pages in terms of aesthetics and so forth, likely to appeal enough to "normal" visitors and get good conversions, etc. To my surprise and I'm sorry to say disappointment, the first thing I recall out of his mouth was just something like "It's for sale" (but it wasn't for sale at all) and then he made a number of frankly discouraging remarks indicating his belief that it was just a parking page, for sale, yada, yada, and the most memorable statement of all was him saying literally that it looked like one of those "parked" pages, although he's probably never heard of "Parked" itself in his life. I thought about posting this then but decided against it. Now I figure, why not, maybe it can help in some way.

Yes.....but did the little, opinionated, snickering rat bastard click on any ads? :lol:
Just joking.

 

[Web Trader]

I don't believe so and believe it was a thousand times no - that's the problem and why this was so significant - it was abundantly clear that he was totally turned off and wanted nothing to do with the site at all. So, even though we might say the pages look good and better than some other parking pages out there, the problem is plain and simple that it still looked like just a parking page to him (I think it was in double lander mode, too). It's kind of like, when you see a play or movie in which it looks like the actor is acting, then you have a problem. The actors have to not look like they're "acting" so that the audience can suspend disbelief and get totally immersed into the story. If a parking page looks too much like a parking page, people are onto it and can be turned off, refusing to have anything to do with it then - less conversions, less revenue, less happiness for all, even though, were it not for that kind of attitude, they might really have benefited from just trying out some of the advertisers on the page.

P.S. I just put in a ticket about the loan clicks mentioned above. Here's what I wrote (some edits and/or bold added for this post, and I put in code tags to try to avoid a live url):

[Short Description: Why clicks reversed for seeming nat...

There were around $10 worth of clicks for exampledomain.com for 10/07/08, but on 10/08/08 they had been removed and the domain was only showing 1 visitor with 0 clicks. However, this search appears in the traffic analysis screen:

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu.lidutINmwBTe1XNyoA?fr2=sg-gac&sado=1&p=[B]EXAMPLEWORD[/B]%20[B]EXAMPLEWORD[/B]%20[B]l[/B]...

If you extend the truncated search url with a suggested possible addition of "oans," for instance, to the letter "l" appearing just before the "...," you find that the Parked page appears on page 1 of Yahoo's search results. Please let me know why these clicks were reversed in light of the search indicated because this seems unusual and surprising, and I would like to know what the problem could have been in order to try to improve the matter for all concerned. Thanks.]

Funny, as with the url's in the traffic page, the "Short Description" was also truncated after submitting with a "..." at the end. I originally was able to fit this into that field: "Why clicks reversed for seeming natural search?"

 

[netmeg]

I've had some like that too; I expect it's just what Yahoo has decided they will or won't pay for, not a Parked decision. I've also gotten paid for some that didn't look like normal user behavior too.

 

[weblord]

updated my tax info on parked.com didn't noticed that before.

 

[SebastianJu]

I still strongly vote for the possibility to put in my own keywords. I, and I presume the domainer that tested that feature on other parking-providers, know that it DOES make a big difference in revenue...
ActiveAudience did it get to work, RevenueDirect did and so on... I think the new keywords are manually set ok by the parking-company-workers.

If this would work it would only a thing of technique to find the right keywords (price and ctr) to optimize the page for the visitors. At the moment often arent even enough related keywords to the main-keyword... Thats money through the window... And I know what difference it makes to use really good keywords. (Think about the two variables CTR and RPC !!!)

Only my thoughts...

Greetings!
Sebastian

 

[thetruman]

I think that the parked system already uses the best possible keywords for both CTR and RPC...

 

[Seabass]

I think that the parked system already uses the best possible keywords for both CTR and RPC...

I have to disagree with that. There are many times I have to change the keywords or can't get the appropriate one to work. There are many times too that related keywords really have little relevance to the main subject.

I'm not sure if that if that is something being controlled by Yahoo or Parked.

 

[zabijaq]

Sebastian? You can easily edit keywords. I don't see point, but maybe it's caused I'm tired like dog :D