Sedo reporting down?

[sunken]

Or is Sedo parking down? I haven't got a click all day and that's highly unusual since I usually get 30-40 at least. Wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

 

[lind]

yep, no updates in last 5-6 hours, yesterday they claimed to be after traffic fakers, hence the delay in stats. Hope it will work soon.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Happens frequently, sometimes they bother to put up a "sorry we're down message", sometimes they don't.

-Allan

 

[primacomputer]

Sedo has had major problems with accurately reporting visits over the last few months. I'm reluctant to go into more detail since this is still under investigation and Sedo has not had a chance to respond (aside from categorically denying everything).

If you feel your Sedo stats are not correct then you may want to contact them and register your complaint. It would also be a good idea take screen shots of the stats in question.

If you park on Sedo with a redirect from your own server you want to compare your log files to Sedos stats. If you find a discrepancy be sure to back up your log files in case they are needed for future action.

 

[unholy1]

Pulled this from another forum..

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Hello Everyone,

Sedo is currently conducting an investigation into Sedo parking fakers. This is an internal check. In terms of statistics, we are putting through views and withholding clicks so that we may review them thoroughly. We will update the click statistics sometime this afternoon (GMT; morning EST), at the conclusion of the investigation. Views have not been affected. Revenue of parking customers with valid traffic will not be affected. We ask for your understanding during this check as we work to make our parking program better for our many loyal and legitimate parking customers.

Kind Regards,

Your Sedo Team
_______________________________________________

SEDO.COM :: Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites

email: [email protected] [email protected]
_______________________ :: make a name for yourself.

As with any large-scale parking impact, an email will be sent out to all parking customers, once the check is completed.

Kind Regards,
Your Sedo Team
_______________________________________________

SEDO.COM :: Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites

email: [email protected] [email protected]
_______________________ :: make a name for yourself.

 

[Rikkers]

This is the third day of checks. Given that they say they are doing this manually it is not surprising.

Here is their latest update:-

Parking Update

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Sedo is currently conducting internal checks.
The updating of clicks and views will therefore be delayed.

However, please note:
- all views and clicks will be correctly updated after the checks have been completed
- revenue will continue to be accumulated ie. there will be no loss of revenue
- statistics will be updated by this evening (CET) at the latest

We ask for your understanding during this check as we work to improve our parking program and thank you for your continued support.

Please address any questions to [email protected]


Kind Regards,

Nora Cotter
Domain Broker
_______________________________________________

SEDO.COM :: Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites

tel +49 (221)-420-758-287 :: fax +49 (212)-202-3951
email: [email protected] :: url: www.sedo.com

_______________________ :: make a name for yourself.

I would have thought that Google might do this automatically for them, but if it prevents click fraud & pushes up revenues for us honest people, then it has to be a good thing.

 

[sunken]

Thanks for letting us know...

 

[primacomputer]

In terms of statistics, we are putting through views and withholding clicks so that we may review them thoroughly.

This is not true. Views are being affected. Sedo has been provided evidence of this and say they are looking in to it.

I'm all for fighting click fraud but Sedo needs to be open and honest about what they are doing. In this they have failed miserably, repeatedly delivering canned responses with bald face lies.

It would have been so easy for them to simply have said they were testing ways to reduce click fraud and apologized in advance for the inevitable problems this would cause for users. Most people would respect and accept this. They really screwed up on this one, and potentially it could cost them big.

 

[nickniceman]

dot.com investor related help
lol that domains are not mine i used this domains of some f**king domain owner.
nice to know that his domain parking are not working now.
it shows exitting.....
if you need help how to ban someone from sedo parking program - ask me.
[email protected]

 

[sunken]

If I understand you right, the chance of anyone randomly going to one domain name and then to the other domain name and clicking the same ad is probably not very likely to lose anyone money because it would be quite rare in the real world. Unless I misunderstand...

 

[nickniceman]

how to ban someone from sedo parking program?

how to ban someone from sedo parking program? :lala:

 

[sunken]

I still not quite sure I'm getting what you are talking about. If you have one website that has a link to two Sedo parked domains, and someone clicks on both of those, you won't get credit for one of them if they then click on the same ads on those parked domains? Again, wouldn't that be kinda rare anyway? No matter what domain it comes from, their click fraud protection probably won't allow the same IP to click on any ad two or three times especially within a certain time frame, so it's understandable, although you are right that you could lose money from that in what would be a rare instance.

As far as paying someone's salary, you do that no matter where you park.

 

[nickniceman]

lol

LOL that was not my domain names i mean west-finance.com - look like sedo banned his domains from parking program.
lol

 

[sunken]

Not sure you are aware of this, but that is really against Google's TOS. You are not allowed to ask or offer incentives for people to click on your ads. They will ban you period for it. The same holds true for most PPC sites including Sedo. They only pay for natural traffic, not incentive-induced traffic. If they did pay for that, everyone would be getting rich off of it.

 

[nickniceman]

yeah my new ban system works perfect!

LOL that was not my domain names i mean west-finance.com - look like sedo banned his domains from parking program.
lol
CEO

 

[sunken]

They have logs that show IP addresses and systems that look for these sort of things. If it was possible to do so, lots of people would be doing it, but there are people who have been banned for it. Google has even tried weaseling out of perfectly valid clicks. If they see 10-12 of the same IP addresses each day (clicking on the ads), they are going to figure it out. If you want to try it, go for it, but I would rather not get involved as it would be considered click fraud by their definition. Again, just offering an incentive (web space, free domains, etc) is against their TOS as I was told by Sedo and in Google's agreement.

 

[primacomputer]

If I understand you right, the chance of anyone randomly going to one domain name and then to the other domain name and clicking the same ad is probably not very likely to lose anyone money because it would be quite rare in the real world. Unless I misunderstand...

Domain hop has a whole system for linking to your other domains from one domain, even creating sub domains to link to. I have the same on my own parking pages. Believe me, it happens all the time.

As for click fraud on Sedo, the only click fraud I have seen is people clicking links on my parked pages and Sedo defrauding me of the revenue.