PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[DnPresident]

Another big factor is

The amount of clicks you get effects the RPC too. For example: If you get 1000 clicks per day every day to MoonHippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism.com the advertisers become aware that they are getting a lot of clicks :tu: so as long as the visitors are converting for them they continue to allow the traffic :tu: but eventually they will probably lower their bids to see if the traffic keeps coming :td: . You wonder why you were getting $0.75 per click and now your getting $0.45 per click. At this point you can either stop parking the name for 30 days or so to get the advertisers paying more again for the traffic or just eat the loss in RPC and take the $0.45

This is also why people don't usually give out their keywords because once a lot of others begin sending traffic to your advertisers then you have no control on being able to get the advertisers paying more again.

Dave

 

[Seabass]

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[DnPresident]

All Parked.com sites are down for me.

Anyone else???

All appear down. :td:

 

[Donny]

They are back. Sorry about that. Load balancer issue. Only affected people on a certain cluster.

Donny

 

[NameGuy]

They are back. Sorry about that. Load balancer issue. Only affected people on a certain cluster.

Donny

Voodoo?

 

[Donny]

Give me another minute or so to get everything back.

Donny

 

[bmugford]

I just noticed that all my parked sites resolve to blank pages. I noticed the issue above and am sure you are working on it.

Thanks,
Brad

 

[Donny]

Taking a little longer than I expected. But still working on it.

Donny

All server clusters should be working fine now.

Donny

 

[zenon]

My parked domains are still coming up with a blank screen -- anyone else having the same problem?

 

[Seabass]

oo

 

[DnPresident]

Just before I submitted this I was showing blank page for some names but now looks up.

Not sure if it's related but When I customize a template color it's not taking either . I changed 1 more than 1 hour ago and it is still not changed.

 

[netmeg]

I got that message too, and as mentioned above, I pulled all my accounts several weeks ago. Couple other people I know got them too.

 

[discovernow]

What is the min to advertise on Yahoo? Is it still 5 cents a click?

 

[Giode]

You have to kind of understand how the PPC works. There's a lot of calculations and variables that go into the value of a click (one of these days I'm going to do a post on that, both from the publisher and the advertiser side)

Just because you get 1.50 for a click on a domain with a particular keyword doesn't by any means you will always get that, or even NEAR to that.

For one thing, advertisers are always fluctuating. Some drop out, some join up. Some notice how much they're spending and suddenly drastically reduce their budgets, some increase. Some use up their daily budgets by noon their time, so other, lower paying advertisers take their place until the next day and the original advertiser's daily budget restarts.

Moreover, if your domain had something to do with music, but you're suddenly putting an entirely different keyword on it - if that keyword isn't directly related to whatever brought that user to your domain in the first place, it doesn't matter WHAT it's worth - they aren't likely to click on the top ads on the page.

When someone searches on your parked domain, they are presented with around 10 (I think) ads on a page. For Google feeds, the top paying ads are usually the first few at the top of the page - it's probably the same for Yahoo feeds, but I don't know for sure. But assuming it is - maybe that top ad *is* paying $1.50, but what if that's not the one your visitor clicked on - for whatever reason, he was more interested in ad #8 which only nets you 14 cents. Or five cents.

There's also the way search engines broad match searches. You may have picked a keyword that somehow can have multiple meanings (and trust me, you wouldn't believe some of the weird ways search engines can match up searches to keywords) So your keyword might be spot on for some people, but it's kind of far fetched for the visitor that happened to land that day.

Another thing that affects the value of the click is the value of your traffic. If I'm running keywords about loan consolidations in North Carolina and I get a bunch of clicks from Spain or India, the search engines are going to discount the amount the parking company (and thus I) get paid; if they didn't, the advertisers would have kittens about paying for traffic that probably won't convert for them. Yea, they should be better about geo targeting, but that doesn't always work either. As far as I have seen, US traffic simply pays better (at least here)

There's some other factors that go into all this, but I haven't got time to post them here; I have a busy day ahead.

But it's not at all unusual for me to run the gamut on a single domain of .02 clicks up to $4 or $5 clicks. There are a lot of variables in play on *every single click*.

Hope that helps.

Netmeg:

That was completely informative, and I really appreciate all the time it took for you explain that to me. I would have thanked you sooner, but am on a family trip with very limited internet access.

Let me absorbe that for a bit, and make adjustments accordingly.

Thanks again!

 

[GOspina]

I have decided to shift all my domains to PARKED.com

A few days ago, I submitted my application form to become a member at PARKED, but still had no news. Need help ...

 

[westlakedomains]

donny any pictures from DMG to be seen?

 

[aphrodite]

Hi Donny :

Could you please help me to join parked ? I like parked.com , because it is the best one , I had PM you ,thanks !

 

[Donny]

My pictures from the show are pretty bad except for the picture of me with 2 chipped teeth and a skinned up face from falling out of a cab.

I'll see if I can find some and post a few.

Donny

 

[netmeg]

You fell out face first? whoa...

Well, that's N'yawlins for ya.

 

[jhansen]

You fell out face first? whoa...

Well, that's N'yawlins for ya.

Donny's eyes must've....*ahem*....been focused elsewhere! :D