PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[_v_]

Donny, thanks for the info. I was unaware that the system would continue to optimize individual domains on an ongoing basis based on which items received clicks. So even on domains that have had a few hundred unique visitors with little or no clicks over the course of a month or two, you would recommend leaving alone? That's great if the system really works that way. It's just painful to watch traffic that could be driving revenue not producing anything. Guess it just takes some getting used to after having worked the other side of it for so long. On the advertising side, if something isn't working; it gets clipped immediately. Guess I'll have to change my way of thinking.

Why do you think removing some keywords will help especially when you don't have any idea what keywords will be replacing them?
Try changing your main keyword though.

 

[Donny]

The system optimizes based on searches and clicks by country. Let me tell you a little story about our our optimization system came to be. About 6 years ago we had a domain blackcastle.com that hit our system, we had it set to castles. It was getting thousands of hits a day, but it was making like $30 a day. Purely by looking at the domain we couldn't figure out what the domain was supposed to be. So on a Friday we wrote something to watch all of the searches and clicks over the weekend. On Monday it told us that the domain should actually be an adult site, we change the domain to an adult site and it made over $900 that day. The funny thing is if you look at the domain right now, it's parked with Sedo and it's set to "castle" not the adult castle. Hint Hint.

If you have a domain that is getting more than 100 hits a day and no clicks, I would recommend talking to your account manager and have them look at the traffic. It might be some crazy traffic.

Donny

 

[Varon]

Fascinating information Donny. This should help a lot.

 

[mdesigner125]

That is great news, I'd much prefer to spend my time adding new domains anyway.

 

[bluename]

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[vbigdeli]

Donny,
I wish i was able to show "Car Rental" to US visitors,"UK Car Rentals" to UK visitors or "Austrilla Car Rentals" to Aus visitors...something like dynamic keywords listing(based on each country).

In most cases if you remove more than 1 keyword per domain, you really are only harming yourself

Yes,you list most relavent keywords,but who will pay for those?who knows about booger?

I removed "twain scanner driver" & software drivers KWs from a "scanner store" related domain...because i am sure i won't get more than 2 cents a click

 

[Seabass]

oo

 

[vbigdeli]

6th CTR is too low

 

[ebatcave]

I saw this on parked news:

"The final stats on 12/5 did not include numbers outside the US. This will be corrected once Yahoo provides us with the updated data."

 

[vbigdeli]

5th CTR is fine and stats fully uploaded...waiting for 6th stats.

 

[netmeg]

Since we're making suggestions while waiting for the stats (ork ork) how about a status indicator for bulk uploads? I uploaded a file with 98 domains, and when you submit that many, they don't get done right away. Would be nice to be able to go in and see any files that haven't been processed yet.

 

[Donny]

We got all of the US data last night, unfortunately not the non-US data. Everything is in the process of being updated one day at a time.

Donny

 

[TOXX]

Donny.....another suggestion.

You already have our traffic broken down in percentages by country on the map. What about breaking out on that map the cash amount (I suppose for the last four days, as it is right now) that each country's traffic is generating? And, maybe RPC and CTR also. That is, if it does not eat up too much processing power to run the reports.

I personally think that would be super-cool.

Ditto Dat!

 

[vbigdeli]

We got all of the US data last night, unfortunately not the non-US data. Everything is in the process of being updated one day at a time.

Donny

Ok,please let us know when 4th ~ 9th stats finalized.

back to suggestions

 

[Donny]

The 5th - 8th are finalized and have been for about 12 hours.

I'm not in the office today, so I haven't had much time to read all of the suggestions, but I have been having other people read them. So keep sending them.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

Are we being botted? I'm getting an awful lot of visitors with comparatively few clicks.

 

[aphrodite]

Does Parked row out a new signup system ?

 

[Donny]

It's a new signup security system. Obviously once you have an account you would never see it again.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

The new stats program is going to show us which domains have the searches AND the 404s, right?

I keep seeing all these visits, and in some cases searches, but no idea where they're falling. I suspect it's bots, I can't tell.

That said - I've absolutely noticed an improvement since you added the bulk tool and I can get some of these domains properly set up. Thanks muchly for that.

 

[mntor]

I have a question guys...

I have 2 typo domains. Both are typos of the same domain. I have set the same keyword to both these typo domains. One receives over 100% CTR, while the other gets only 10% CTR. I couldn't reason out a logical explanation. Will appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks.