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Hi,
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!
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Same Experiment:
17.41% Revenue Increase
9.35% RPM Increase
3.75% CTR Increase
The numbers are looking even better this week than last week. Hope everybody is seeing the same thing we are as well.
Donny
What I find interesting about this whole thing is that the folks at Yahoo and Google have everyone believing that the lower payouts are the result of a bad economy, poor quality traffic, etc. I have the unique perspective of being able to look at it from both sides. I manage a PPC campaign for a company that spends several million dollars per year on PPC with the major search engines and in categories where I am being charged anywhere from $2.50 to $3.50 per click, the payout coming in on some very generic, keyword rich, US traffic, parked domains has been in the $.08-$.10 cent range. I know that as an advertiser, I would buy that same traffic by the boat load if I could get my hands on it for anything less than about $1.50. Hopefully this industry starts to make the shift towards partnering directly with the people who want good quality traffic and are willing to pay fair market value for it. That will keep domaining alive and cut out the massive search engine middle men who are currently drawing margins of up to 90%. For the most part, the whole "quality" click discounting thing is just a cover for the search engines to drive more profit. I know that as an advertiser, I am seeing no discounting on my traffic regardless of whether it converts or not, while my Adsense earnings as a publisher have fallen off a cliff on a revenue per click basis. I know anyone who does any serious domaining has also seen this. Donny and the folks at Parked have done an excellent job of trying to look out for our best interests but they are really fighting a losing battle right now. We need direct partnerships with quality advertisers if we want to stop the cycle of being robbed blind for quality traffic by the big engines. Regardless of what the news is telling you, people are still spending money on PPC, we just need an effective platform for directly matching up buyers and sellers. Imagine the possibilities if an advertiser could sign up for a PPC account directly with Parked and then choose which domains they want to advertise on?
Is the Yahoo feed down? I'm not seeing Yahoo ads on any of my Yahoo feed sites, not just Parked. Anybody seeing that or is it just me?
L2
Edit: For a few minutes it appeared normal, then they "weirded" out again.
L2
I've seen'm - I believe those one page landers are called "D2R" sites. Yahoo dictates who has'm and who doesn't, not the parking companies....
Something weird is definitely going on, I can't quite figure it out - yet.
L2
In order for Parked.com to pay industry leading payouts we have to ensure traffic quality for our network is of the highest standards.
Our traffic quality department has analyzed your application and has determined that it does not currently meet the standards we are looking for in new Parked.com partners.