Parking some domains

[pablohc86]

Hi to all..
i'm acquiring some name from the godaddy.com auction section.
godaddy give us the traffic stats. i have seen that the traffic is quite accurate, does anybody has different experience??

when i try to evalutate where the traffic is coming from i write the name in some checker site. too much time i verify that checker site doesn't find any backlink and the name is really worst (3 hypens or 3 words or more than 15char).
i want to know if i could buy the name with no fear or could it be that godaddy detect a big quantity of bot or spider traffic that could i consider as rubbish??
because if then i want to park the name i want to earn some money.. not having domain with 0 revenues for the whole year (supposing that the domain is correctly optimized)

 

[biggie]

if godaddy's traffic stats were accurate, then wouldn't everyone be running to gd's auctions to snag some?

 

[pablohc86]

if godaddy's traffic stats were accurate, then wouldn't everyone be running to gd's auctions to snag some?

so do you believe that the traffic stats aren't so accurate??
i have bought some domains from their and i had more or less (around 10%) the traffic shown.
am I a lucky man in those case?

 

[Kate]

The traffic figures are meaningless, we don't even know what we are taking about, monthly UV or something else ?

 

[pablohc86]

The traffic figures are meaningless, we don't even know what we are taking about, monthly UV or something else ?

yeah i think it's the montly traffic and i had a minus of 10% bacause the parking services counts only the UV..
coud probably be??

 

[woofard]

Talked to Godaddy tech, who'd worked there for 3 years (he said) According to him, their traffic stats are counts from the domain's creation date, not yearly, not monthly, but a total count of total visits since the domain was registered. I'll still take their stats with a grain of salt, however.

 

[phowell23]

Talked to Godaddy tech, who'd worked there for 3 years (he said) According to him, their traffic stats are counts from the domain's creation date, not yearly, not monthly, but a total count of total visits since the domain was registered. I'll still take their stats with a grain of salt, however.

How would GoDaddy acquire accurate (10% give or take) traffic data on a domain that isn't parked at GoDaddy?

 

[woofard]

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