What are the actual differences between parking companies?

[ngenme]

You besides parking, I also have 6 years experience making money out of adsense CPA, etc.

I was thinking. We got bodis, voodoo, parkingcrew. All good.

All offer the exact same thing. You park your domains and then you get paid, about exactly the same amount of money.

Also they all seems to want the same kind of legendary traffic called "natural" traffic whatever that means.

I do not even know what kind of traffic google want. Do they care only about traffic quality? Or do they really want that "natural" traffic.

With adsense, you sort of learn that by try and see if you get banned or not. Srsly. I wish for something more honest and open.

Where can I learn more about it?

 

[matt_bodis]

Google cares about quality traffic but as all networks they are getting better at converting low quality into high quality. Afterall, all visitors on the web are looking for something.

So there is no such thing as low quality traffic. There is however a low quality system that doesn't know how to match ads to visitors, and that's what all the ad networks are like right now (Google, Bing, etc) - the fault is in the ad network not in the visitor quality.

In the domain industry, the main upstream provider G also has two types of search feeds:

• Domain feed (content feed)
• Search feed

The parking companies that have the search feed do better on the 2-click pages. The search advertisers are generally higher paying on the G network than the content channel. (Mostly in USA, not as much international).

What else would you like to know?

 

[ngenme]

A lot. I will ask privately. That there is no such thing as low quality traffic is intriguing.

Yea there are bot traffics of course which is worthless used by fraudster. Yes google is awesome at converting quite untargeted visitors I notice. Perhaps they used the IP, or cookies to track what people want with their adchoice.

I also noticed that different parking companies pay differently for the same traffic. That's what I want to ask actually. I mean they all use the same google feed. Yet they pay differently. I wonder why. Some are quite different. Bodis is the highest so far, followed by voodoo, parkingcrew, and dopa.

What's the difference?

 

[jcourtenay]

I think each parking company has their own criteria for determining the value of traffic.

 

[verifiedhost]

I think some of the lower quality traffic gets pushed to companies like oversee.net and looksmart, who offer the exact same xml feeds for parking companies and web hosts.

 

[RobertP6]

Bodis - Uses traditional parked pages, Google feed
Sedo - traditional parked pages, feed
GoDaddy parking - Low payouts, feed
The Parking Place - Uses CPA offers on certificate page, no feed, takes adult/ low niche domains

Also, this is a good reference: http://domainnamewire.com/2012/02/24/four-newcomers-among-top-10-domain-parking-companies/