PPC experiment.

[wot]

With the increased ppc for .co.in names I have just moved Gov.co.in from an adsense / mini site to Sedo parking.

Have already had 760 hits in just over 1.5 days and a ctr of nearly 16% , ppc appears to be around 0.13 euros.

Early days yet but with the hits being similar to the mini site the ctr /ppc from Sedo and without optimization is twice that of the mini site - so far.

Will see what one month brings.

 

[wot]

Click amounts on my Indian domains saw a nice surge of improvement at the launch of the new system, but unfortunately they seem to have returned to their previous $.02-$.05 now.

I'm not sure if this says more about SEDO, or more about Indian traffic in general, at this point.

I survive in this business by selling names, not by traffic clicks, so I'm not going to get too upset or worried about all this... but I must admit, it was kinda fun & exciting to see that little burst of extra income for a while. It made loggin in each day, fun.

I am the same. Most of my domain income comes from sales. ppc is mainly incidental.

I did the gov.co.in switch for a period of time to check it out. Now back on a mini site.

Still continue to see wild swings on ppc for other indian names but then I do not get particularly good ppc for the majority of my names.

I'm starting to think there's no pattern at all to Sedo's madness.One of my traffic co.in may get an average of .28/click one day then falls to .02 the next.
There is no stability at Sedo at all.
I recently added to Sedo a really good traffic .com.pk...an odd extension,but an amazing banking/credit category high paying even in Pakistan.Day one it made $18+ with average of $1.16 per click,now just 5 days later the average PPC has already dropped to .89,then .76,then .59 today.How low can we go?

Payment also depends on which ad they click on - mine seem to choose the cheapies.

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

I'm starting to think there's no pattern at all to Sedo's madness.One of my traffic co.in may get an average of .28/click one day then falls to .02 the next.
There is no stability at Sedo at all.
I recently added to Sedo a really good traffic .com.pk...an odd extension,but an amazing banking/credit category high paying even in Pakistan.Day one it made $18+ with average of $1.16 per click,now just 5 days later the average PPC has already dropped to .89,then .76,then .59 today.How low can we go?

Sedo's pattern is simple. They are making changes whenever they see that they will have to pay out some money!!! I gave up long ago thinking I will make $XXX per month from parking.

I agree with Wot. I have them parked at Sedo, in hoping of selling domains. Some day they probably won't even pay to park.

Frank

 

[-db-]

I like SEDO, overall as a company. And some very nice people there.

But honestly, I'm not a big fan of parking to begin with.

In fact, up until last year, I just forwarded most of my domains to a single page that said "The domain address you typed is FOR SALE. Contact us". My names did not make any money from clicks sitting there, but I sold a lot of them, and visitors often contacted me to enquire.

Sometimes, I think about returning to that simple solution....

Again, because selling names is my priority, not getting people to click ads.

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

I like SEDO, overall as a company. And some very nice people there.

But honestly, I'm not a big fan of parking to begin with.

In fact, up until last year, I just forwarded most of my domains to a single page that said "The domain address you typed is FOR SALE. Contact us". My names did not make any money from clicks sitting there, but I sold a lot of them, and visitors often contacted me to enquire.

Sometimes, I think about returning to that simple solution....

Again, because selling names is my priority, not getting people to click ads.

I agree 100%. So I just leave all my domains parked at Sedo, even if I just make $XX a month from parking.

Frank

 

[wot]

Experiment continued:

Adsense income on the Gov.co.in mini site was dropping off so switched back to Sedo 2 weeks ago - for some reason it took a few days for the traffic to start picking up but income is now growing- yesterday saw the biggest one day return with over $15 .

With the amount of traffic Gov.co.in gets with a .com I would be making really good money - maybe .co.in will pay better in the future.

Anyway, the answer appears to be no answer , just keep experimenting.

 

[MinionDH]

I guess move it over to Trafficclub, then.

I agree. I'm making a nice profit at TrafficClub with my .co.in/.in domains