WhyPark

[RJ]

We lost our popular discussion thread about WhyPark. It was deleted by forum software when the thread starter's account was deleted (at his request). Sorry about that everyone.

This is a new thread being established to talk about WhyPark.

RJ

 

[bradj]

Thanks for giving back the thread on WhyPark.

 

[AndyO]

Well after a mini-hiatus, I'm back and whipping up more sites to use on WhyPark.

I'm giving AdSense a serious run this time around, as the domains I'm setting aside for WP aren't really the best out there (Some .us, some low advertiser competition but strong search results) - I think that single click ads will boost my earnings a little.

While I may be wrong and be missing out on slightly higher RPC with 2-click ads that can possibly 'qualify' leads somewhat more, time will tell what works out best.

The latest site I've put up on the WP platform is Fitness Clothing - Online Shopping for Fitness Clothing, Activewear, Sportswear and Swimwear - Comments welcomed. I know the font size and colours are kind of small and glary, but I'm hoping that this will work to my benefit and lead the visitor to concentrating (and clicking!) on the ads instead.

 

[mwzd]

>>>> When adding or editing a domain, you'll see the field for incoming RSS feed. Add the feed's URL there and we'll pull in the contents on a scheduled basis. In the layout, make sure that you have the placeholder where you want the feeds to be shown. That's done with the [[rssfeed-in]] placeholder. Many of the older templates don't have this in place by default.

Thanks Craig, I'm looking at creating a custom template, this will come in handy.

>>>> Getting high quality links is still important. Once you get even one or two good links from sites that also get indexed frequently, you'll see the spiders starting to crawl. It's still important to keep building new incoming links and that's one of the nice things about having a real site online instead of a parked page. You can attract new incoming links, use a small amount of link exchanges with quality partners and submit to quality directories.

I get it, basic seo is a must. Off to build links

>>>> The old NamePros forum was just starting to discuss different ways we could make bulk editing a bit easier on things like text links and general site settings. Hopefully we can continue discussing that. Reporting is something that we'll continue to enhance as well.

Excellent, will help me manage my names a lot more when this is complete.

>>>> Text links seem to be the one area where people are always asking for better ways to bulk manage them. You can link to other sites you own, but it would be through using the text link section on each domain. I would recommend not getting carried away on inter-linking your domains though, or you'll look like a mini-net to search engines. If you want to push traffic between related domains, I'd recommend adding a short custom page that has new content and talks about the subject of the other domain, and then include a link at the end of the page to your other site. You'll also likely drive more traffic that way.

Hmm, the custom page approach was overlooked, I need to explore that and ensure that we do it that way.

I use WhyPark's free account. I read some people felt that pretty much the only way to make decent money on WhyPark was/is to use one of the paid accounts. Is anyone using the free account and making a little money? I'm not talking about getting rich just maybe 2-3X reg fees every month.

Do I need to change to the $10 plan to make money?

I dont think so, though it depends on your % level with adsense. IF you get a high % from them, it might be worth a shot. After all, from what I understand, whypark keeps part of the revenue from the free accounts that the ad provider pays, so you might get lesser on the same traffic.

2x-3x reg fee is highly unlikely from a hand reg.

Also, I have found no way to integrate a photo into a special position on your template (ie design ONE template for all sites, and then insert a special photo/logo file for each site). If it had this one feature, I would probably make it my only parking service, because I could easily make parked sites that look like real blogs instead of obvious parking sites.

Sounds interesting, keep us updated, this is definitely something that might be worth emulating.

I think that single click ads will boost my earnings a little.

I'm hoping for the same thing, plus the kind of domains I have do not lend themselves much to US traffic thus ensuring that RPC at whypark is nothing worth talking about.

 

[maxeaus]

Wow, you go away for a few months and everything changes!

OK, What happened to the WP thread? What happenned to L2Ride? All i know is Parked bought WP, not long ago, right? Damn, 6 months is a long time in cyberspace!!!

 

[Sadr]

Well I too took a short break from the old Whypark thread and it was gone. I was so disapointed. I have been with Whypark for about 18 months and have seen lots of my domains come and go. I have only used Whypark (had tryed Parked for some domaines but didn't like it) and it took alot of fooling with the code to get it to do what I wanted. I use links at the bottom of most of my sites to point to my other key sites as I do in FilterSpam.info.
Now on the other hand I just aquired Cartoon Pictures and wanted to try something different. I wanted to try to accually develope a site from a very basic template. I could use some ideas on what else people would like to see on a cartoon picture site. Maybe some simple things like date and time?
I just use imageshak for my pictures. I didn't know it might have a limit as to how many pics I could upload. I will have to check into that.

I just checked on my sites and even though my sites are indexed and have no warnings. My adsence is down on all my sites? Anyone else see the same thing? I also can't log on to my adsence account? Something happen overnight that I am not aware of? Wouldn't I get a e-mail or something if Goog was going to cancle my adsence account?

 

[AWRosey]

I just checked on my sites and even though my sites are indexed and have no warnings. My adsence is down on all my sites? Anyone else see the same thing? I also can't log on to my adsence account? Something happen overnight that I am not aware of? Wouldn't I get a e-mail or something if Goog was going to cancle my adsence account?

Sadr:

It appears to me that many of your WP sites (i.e. cartoonpictures and spamfilters) have no content on the main page other that the Google ads. I am not a Google expert, and I do not use my adsense account on my WP sites, but I believe that your sites without content violate their TOS and your account may very well have been suspended.

Please let us know what you find out as this information will prove very important to other WP users that may be considering using adsense on their sites.

Alan

 

[Sadr]

I do have content on my sites, you just need to scroll down. Is there a way of checking if I am suspended or not? Can you get unsuspended? Should I just put more articles on the homepage, and resubmit my sitemaps? There is no notification on my webmasters account! Can I email adsense?

 

[uliss]

that RPC at whypark is nothing worth talking about.


yes, that's ture, everyone knows the reason

 

[Sadr]

I am not sure if I have been suspended or not. I can log into my Google account and access all my other sections like webmasters tools, adwords and analytics. When I click on the adsense link it loads and gives messege to log into adsense using my google account. When I fill in the fields and hit enter it just refreshes with empty fields for email and password. I can do this over and over and it just keeps refreshing with no error messege. I tried all the help menues to cange password and about 10 other posible solutions to no avail. I reduced my articles to 0 and this probably was the cause, with no real content. I have recently placed more articles on every site and resubmitted my sitemaps in order to rectify the problem. I also removed all my adsense code for now until I figure it all out.
Both Cartoon Pictures and Filter Spam look much better now with whypark ads on them.

I also posted this same messege at the adsense help forum and yet to get a reply.

 

[Sadr]

Well I got the email!

"Hello,

We continually review all publishers according to our program policies (
http://www.google.com/adsense/policies ) and Terms and Conditions (
http://www.google.com/adsense/terms ). During a recent review of your
account, our specialists found that it was not in compliance with our
policies.

It is important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value
to the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads
on pages with little to no original content. Additionally, Google ads may
not be placed on non-content-based pages.

Your site should also provide a good user experience through clear
navigation and organization. Users should be able to easily click through
your pages and find the information they are seeking.

Please review Google's Webmaster Quality Guidelines (
Webmaster guidelines - Webmasters/Site owners Help
) for more information.

As a result, your AdSense account has been disabled.

You will receive payment for outstanding earnings, but we're no longer
able to partner with you or your network of sites.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team
So I guess my next step will be an appeal. In the mean time whypark can pay me for the traffic with thier ads. It isn't so bad. I just found, for my sites, adsence always paid more. I never got more than a couple cents for a click with Whypark clicks. With adsense it could be from .10 to 1.00 a click.
So the lesson would be not to overload the adsense and make sure you do not drop your articles on your home page to 0 or IT WILL GET YOUR ADSENSE ACCOUNT DISABLED.

By the way my goog account is still active and many of my sites are still indexed. Just with a different ad provider.Whypark is the key, you just got to develope differntly for the ads. No biggy.

I hope this will help some of the newer Whypark users and I will let you know the progress of the appeal in the future. And after almost one and a half years of adsense I almost feel free! There are other advertising companies with less rules.

 

[TP]

I'd like to hear if there is anyone else other than Sadr who had their Adsense disabled by using Whypark. Sadr's case is to be expected as he reduced all his articles to 0, but after Rick Schwartz's blog about how alot of site owners had their Adsense accounts closed, possibly due to having only syndicated content, I'd like to know if anyone else using Whypark has the same problem.

 

[Michelle]

Ive no adsense on mine atm because of this and to be honest with the few pennies I get now it wont be worth me having a paid account if I cant put it back on ???

 

[exsedo]

Hi,
The content issue has been discussed quite a few times in the proper Whypark thread, unfortunately, all the valuable information and just about all the knowledgeable members are lost to us now. I am sure that the Whypark team will be looking at this problem and hopefully working on something to improve the situation. Other similar platforms are harvesting relevant and up to date content from the web, and seem to be doing better with this method, but for how long ? there must come a time when, if more platforms start to use this method, duplication of content will increase, and you are back to the same situation. The only real solution seems to be writing your own original content for your domains and hope that Whyparks servers are not automatically flagged. I would be interested to here other members views.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Why I dont understand is that I have 130 sites with whypark,some have 6 pages indexed with google in 2 years.Some have articles from 2007.
And duplicate content would that not be an issue??
So 130 sites with whypark,have google ads and am getting 11 hits out of 130 websites in 1 day.Not good,whats wrong,I am not really impressed with whypark other than easy to set up site.
example is iwines.ca been with whypark for 6 months and if you site index at google see example only 1 page indexed.Thats not good in my opinion,suggestions,comments,ideas?????

 

[dtagr]

Try hostgator and xsitepro v2.

I have given up on whypark. Early returns were better than parking, but the $ for clicks has been abysmal for some time now. + Bing won't index any of the sites. Gotta develop to make a buck now.

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

I never use whypark for monetization,google or affiliates.Use only for content but if they can only get 1 page indexed in 6 months not worth 120 a year.
Thanks for tip Dtagr,snow on the hills,eh!

 

[dtagr]

snow on the hills,eh!

More importantly, soon be ice on the lakes so I don't have to tow my boat to go fishing!!:tu:

 

[Sadr]

As for the contentjust make sure you got alot. I am going to try to do this. I am going to place 30 whypark articles on each site, then add NEW content 1 page at a time (with no real rush maybe a page a week) as I do this I will cut 1 article from whypark to offset down to 29 articles and so on. Work on one site at a time.
With the idexed pages, I found my .ca's didn't get indexed as well as others. Even with a great name it was hard. I just recently dropped almost all my .ca's. I am now down to owning 34 domains and only 3 are .ca's now. Only 2 of my .ca's have pages indexed. My .coms, out of 10 of them, I only have 1 with indexed pages. The rest are .info domains, 21 one of them, of which only 13 of them have pages indexed.
But all of then had pages indexed at one point so they show up in searches still. And there are alot of directories used every day that will accept your domain. Submit to all the free ones.

 

[nuke007]

Yesterday, I opened whypark account ($10 month). I have added 10 sites so far.

Additions done.

1. Keywords added in Menu options. (Each keyword brings new articles)

2. In the footer I have placed link to wiki (for same domain key word)

3. Added one original article on domain subject (one custome page on keyword).

4. Submitted site to Google, Yahoo and Bing.

5. My own article added to article base and Ezine with link to site..


My questions:

1. Keeping Google adsense on why park site is good or keep why park ads.

2. Is it possible to upload your sites and then have why park articles display in column.

3. Possible to see actual code of why park so that I can change as i feel. (Currently it only shows tags in source file so you have to add only under those tags.

4. Under my $10 package they say social networking, Once I logged in I couldn't see any option which lets me broadcast site on socialnetowrking sites.

 

[dtagr]

Just when I thought it was dead. I have some recent revenue spikes with some of my Whypark sites. It appears that 70% of the traffic is coming from Yahoo searches. Leaving Google with 20%, type ins 10%. Bing still refuses to index any of my sites, all 106.

Anyone else seeing similar results? Any suggestions on how to improve the Google percentages or bring in Bing?

 

[teatime]

Just when I thought it was dead. I have some recent revenue spikes with some of my Whypark sites. It appears that 70% of the traffic is coming from Yahoo searches. Leaving Google with 20%, type ins 10%. Bing still refuses to index any of my sites, all 106.

Anyone else seeing similar results? Any suggestions on how to improve the Google percentages or bring in Bing?

Maybe someone from Whypark could address this here in the thread. We would all like to see this improve.

 

[TP]

I have the same results:

(1) Most of my income come from Yahoo searches from my older domains that were indexed and ranked high by Yahoo. I don't know whether this remains true for my newer domains; that is, whether Yahoo is indexing them. This has been the case since when my domains were on Imodo. Most of the search came from Yahoo.

(2) Google indexes my domains, but almost all do not rank on their keyword, except for a very few domains.

(3) Not indexed by Bing as far as I know.

I'm doing more to earn less money than I did in the past. Also, WhyPark will have to build more sophisticated features, otherwise the downward trend will continue.

I'm not complaining. Its not like I am paying a lot for their services. But I am hoping WhyPark management has some sort of plan.

TP

 

[exsedo]

Maybe someone from Whypark could address this here in the thread. We would all like to see this improve.

Hi TT,
It would be better to use the Parked/Whypark forum if you need responses from Craig or Donny. Due to problems a while back, we lost the Whypark thread and all the info it contained.
Craig is very responsive on their own forum.

 

[dtagr]

I have the same results:

(1) Most of my income come from Yahoo searches from my older domains that were indexed and ranked high by Yahoo. I don't know whether this remains true for my newer domains; that is, whether Yahoo is indexing them. This has been the case since when my domains were on Imodo. Most of the search came from Yahoo.

(2) Google indexes my domains, but almost all do not rank on their keyword, except for a very few domains.

(3) Not indexed by Bing as far as I know.

I'm doing more to earn less money than I did in the past. Also, WhyPark will have to build more sophisticated features, otherwise the downward trend will continue.

I'm not complaining. Its not like I am paying a lot for their services. But I am hoping WhyPark management has some sort of plan.

TP

Any theories or ideas as to why Google is not ranking for the keywords on your sites? Is fresh content the answer? I confess to mostly using Whypark like my other parking accounts as a set and forget type of deal.

I suppose I can add some content to a few sites and see what happens.

I appreciate people posting their experiences here. I don't have the time or inclination to join another forum.

 

[TP]

Any theories or ideas as to why Google is not ranking for the keywords on your sites? Is fresh content the answer? I confess to mostly using Whypark like my other parking accounts as a set and forget type of deal.

I suppose I can add some content to a few sites and see what happens.

I appreciate people posting their experiences here. I don't have the time or inclination to join another forum.

It is the content. My keywords are niche long tail keywords and the available articles probably don't match them perfectly. And I don't think Google factors in the keyword domain name into their algorithm much anymore. Yahoo seems to, but I don't know how long that will last.

I've been trying to add original articles but it is difficult given time constraints and number of domains I have.

TP