Sedo parking just informed me that they took my earnings away (just before they were to pay me, reaching my first 50$) because my domain was receiving traffic from "unnatural sources". I asked them what do they mean by "unnatural", 'cause to me it sounds like supernatural, unreal, but haven't got an answer yet.
Here's their message:
"Routine traffic audits indicate that the traffic to your parked domains is not in accordance with Sedo‘s terms and conditions and does not meet requirements set by our advertising partner.
Our parking program allows only traffic from natural sources, such as type-in traffic, search engine results, or old/expiring links from other websites. Other forms of traffic, whether incentivized, purchased, or created by any artificial means, are not tolerated.
After careful review, and to maintain the integrity of click prices and the quality of Sedo’s parking program, your account was blocked for parking and the accumulated click balance generated by your domains has been forfeited in accordance with our Terms of Use."
What unclear to me is:
- "type-in traffic, search engine results, or old/expiring links" - is there any other kind of traffic, except the search engine bots' visits?
- "Other forms of traffic, whether incentivized, purchased" - are they suggesting that I pay people to visit my parked domain?
Anyway, their TOS is unclear, as they usually are, so they can say anything they want without actually being written there.
But to clarify rhis, and I told them as well, I have no idea of any other kind of traffic that may exist and I also don't know or care about how the visitors come to the parked domain. I CANNOT control this, couldn't do it before, when I was hosting the domain, and even less now, when they are hosting it.
So, the question remains, are they serious, legit company? Are you guys using them, do they send you the earnings? Any other bad things I should know about Sedoparking?
Thanks.
Here's their message:
"Routine traffic audits indicate that the traffic to your parked domains is not in accordance with Sedo‘s terms and conditions and does not meet requirements set by our advertising partner.
Our parking program allows only traffic from natural sources, such as type-in traffic, search engine results, or old/expiring links from other websites. Other forms of traffic, whether incentivized, purchased, or created by any artificial means, are not tolerated.
After careful review, and to maintain the integrity of click prices and the quality of Sedo’s parking program, your account was blocked for parking and the accumulated click balance generated by your domains has been forfeited in accordance with our Terms of Use."
What unclear to me is:
- "type-in traffic, search engine results, or old/expiring links" - is there any other kind of traffic, except the search engine bots' visits?
- "Other forms of traffic, whether incentivized, purchased" - are they suggesting that I pay people to visit my parked domain?
Anyway, their TOS is unclear, as they usually are, so they can say anything they want without actually being written there.
But to clarify rhis, and I told them as well, I have no idea of any other kind of traffic that may exist and I also don't know or care about how the visitors come to the parked domain. I CANNOT control this, couldn't do it before, when I was hosting the domain, and even less now, when they are hosting it.
So, the question remains, are they serious, legit company? Are you guys using them, do they send you the earnings? Any other bad things I should know about Sedoparking?
Thanks.
