VOODOO.com

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Ok, so we know how popular our Official Parked.com thread was...let's give @Donny's newest genius invention a try: VOODOO.COM
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Let us know what you think!

 

[Donny]

I am using above seeing clicks but no earnings 24 hours later ..delay in stats or clicks your not paying for ?

We don't provide estimates, as we have found in the past that too many people complained that they were inaccurate. So we solved that problem by not providing estimates on revenue.

The numbers usually finalize by around 11am PST, but they are already finalized today.

Donny

 

[mis_chiff]

We don't provide estimates, as we have found in the past that too many people complained that they were inaccurate. So we solved that problem by not providing estimates on revenue.

The numbers usually finalize by around 11am PST, but they are already finalized today.

Donny

Thanks for updating that Donny, I wondered too but saw it the
next day.
Not that my traffic is beating down the door or anything, heck it's
not even holding it open hehe

Thanks

 

[smurge]

I'm loving Voodoo so far. I have seen major increases in revenue. Higher ctr's and rpm's.

Keep it up Donny!

 

[cantstop]

We don't provide estimates, as we have found in the past that too many people complained that they were inaccurate. So we solved that problem by not providing estimates on revenue.

The numbers usually finalize by around 11am PST, but they are already finalized today.

Donny

yes they show up at 12 noon 24 hours later..here .I agree ;the estimates piss people off... sedo has just gone to estimates as of 2 weeks ago.The following statement appears in control panel "Earnings data for the selected date range are based on estimates. The correct data will generally be available after two days".there is no Button "check two days ago " for stats..so you have to do a lot of research to find out what you actually made on a given day while the stats show a "better than what you are really getting don't you feel great ? stat". I have $9 click reduced to 3$ overnite..who is going to think that is great ? .You can't fight human nature; as illogical as it may be.

 

[Donny]

For all of the people who own IDN's, we do fully support all IDN's and IDN.IDN domain names.

In the signup process and in the interface as well.

Donny

 

[ngenme]

What is IDN? Do you pay more than bodis.com?

 

[freespeech]

idn is internationalized domain name. regarding fully supporting idn's, i added a few 'special character' idn's to my account and they did not show the special characters only the raw punycode displayed on the actual parked page. i used various browsers. for example: xn--jsuschrist-b7a dot com did not display:
jésuschrist, but only the punycode:
xn--jsuschrist-b7a dot com. thanks

 

[Donny]

freespeach - We fully supported idn's starting yesterday. So if you did it before yesterday, it was probably showing the punycode. But it's working now.

Donny

 

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really impressed - well done!!

 

[King Kong]

I just got an account.
It is pretty cool!
Added some domain names, hope could get a good revenue

 

[freespeech]

thanks for the idn update.

 

[cantstop]

one click lander

My first inclination is to set all to one click lander. Sometimes the obvious is not the best. Is there any advise as to what kind of domains profit from a 2 click lander ?

 

[Donny]

Everybody has their own idea of which is better. The theory is that 2 click produces less clicks, but higher RPC. And 1 click produces more clicks but less RPC.

I have seen some domains that are set to a 1 click make $10 a day, but make $30 a day on 2 click. And I have seen just the opposite with 2 click.

So it's really whatever makes you happy.

But at the end of the day, every domain is different.

Donny

 

[WORDSWORTH]

Thanks for the swift approval. Whilst my CTR is currently very low (I've only just started optimizing), the RPC looks reasonable and I'm sure this can be improved upon with more optimization.

Voodoo came just at the right time for me - Sedo with their recent change to estimates and then often drastic reductions in revenue prompted me to look elsewhere and I'm glad I did.

I hope to work with you for many years to come.

 

[webdveloper]

apply for Parked

Hello,
Can you approve a Parked account for me?

---------- Post added at 09:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:55 PM ----------

hello,
can you approve a Parked.com account?

 

[ngenme]

Donny, bodis.com can convert chinese visitors but cannot convert chinese adult visitors. So can voodoo does that?

Also with permission bodis allow 302 redirection to ww1.domainname.com which points to bodis address. Does voodoo.com allow that?

And about parked.com I think I'll just pm.

 

[Donny]

Yes we do support Chinese traffic, but not adult chinese traffic. Adult traffic is China is banned by China, not by our upstreadm provider.

Yes, we allow a 302 redirect as well.

Donny

 

[Blue24]

Any samples of parked domains?

 

[nielsencl]

Unpaid / Unsolicited Review of VooDoo.com

After finding this thread and reading most of it I decided to try VooDoo.com on 11/17/11. Clearly I have not been with them long, but wanted to provide some information based on what I have seen so far. I wanted to try them because the parking provider I have been very happy with for several years uses a Yahoo feed, and while results have been up and down, they have gotten really bad lately.

- It's a new service so there are things you may find missing or not completed, but the control panel works well, domains import quickly and are easy to direct your domain to them with NS changes and other options.

- Support has not been overly warm and friendly, but it has been professional and very responsive. If you are not a newbie or a jerk you should be happy with their support.

- A few things may be a little confusing, but for the most part it all makes sense and doesn't take too much work to get a domain set up, especially if you already have the data like title, description, and keyword(s).

- Template options seem to be limited, but I think this is due to Google and not VooDoo. Selecting the type of lander for things like 1 or two click is awesome as my current provider runs about 98% 2-click, while the few 1-click landers almost always do much better.

- A folder option allows you to get or stay organized, and you can see the SE status of your domain in the account, although it is not on any reports yet that I saw, and I don't think you can move by status which would be nice.

- Domain and folder stats are provided with an expected delay of 1-2 days for the numbers to show up.


So why I am close to pulling my domains from VooDoo?

I initially moved domains to VooDoo that were getting a lot of traffic but that I could not seem to get optimized properly. When I had an AdSense account (don't get me started) I moved these types of domains to AdSense For Domains and was happy to start getting some revenue, sometimes good revenue from these domains.

The first domains I moved to VooDoo didn't show much traffic and didn't earn anything. Then when I poked around I found the status of almost all these domains was "FailListed" which means banned or rejected by Google for some reason.

To remove this aspect of my testing, I then took about 12 of my current top-earning domains and moved them to VooDoo. I set them up pretty much the same as they were with my other provider and made sure the keywords or ads that were showing were appropriate. The status of most of these domains was shown as "clear", which means the SE approves of them.

While it has been over the Thanksgiving holiday, the results have been disappointing so far. The stats show very, very low numbers for visitors, no searches, and of course no clicks.

Disturbingly, the visitor or unique user numbers are far, far less that I had been seeing before. Are they being under-reported at VooDoo? Is my current provider showing me junk like bot traffic? I just don't know.

I'm going to give it another day or two and will update this review if things pick up. The problem for me is that now that my best performing domains are not with the previous provider, my income there has dropped to almost nothing. By best day there this month was $31.25 but since I most the domains my total has been about $11 or less than $2 a day.

Summary: I think VooDoo deserves a try but keep in mind your mileage may vary. If the revenue was there I was prepared to move all or most of my 1,000 domains to them. I may still try moving additional domains that have a "clean" status to VooDoo and see if I can't get them to make some money if they are not doing that currently. I prefer a Google Feed and I really like VooDoo, but I need to keep earning something from these damn domains.

And it is common for the same domain to perform much differently at different providers. You should move your domains to different providers and do some testing until they work the way you expect them to.

 

[ibidu]

nielsencl

That was a thorough description, but in general I found it's a big mistake to move a high earning domain to another parking company. It's best not to be greedy and I've paid dearly for my mistake.