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Reply With QuoteIMO, why are you guys running into a sedo stonewall around your earnings?
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Nothing too complex.
I have the numbers to show how sedo's PPC has been going downhill for months on end. This sub-forum is about sedo. This particular thread, is about my personal experience with Sedo's PPC - a sentiment shared among many others.
I've been sweet-talked for months on end by Sedo specialists to keep my portfolio there and indeed, at times, the PPC did climb to satisfactory levels - only to fall way down soon. Sedo exclaims that we need to constantly "optimize", "tweak", "prod" and "poke" our domains as if it's the teats of a cow that needs constant milking. The fact is, that's their job - to get the best ads in place and to ensure they pass on a legitinate cut of the traffic revenue to us.
Moving out domains en masse is not a hard thing to do. It's not a matter of lack of global edits. It's simply disruptive to the traffic stats retained with Sedo for the past 34 months. It's a byproduct of Sedo's promises to increase PPC, to make us more money and of the countless times that Sedo failed to respond timely in public or private queries about how to improve the PPC that has been bleeding.
The "Tops and Flops of 2006" that Sedo displays in their pages is a quite amusing text, because both of these states are Sedo itself.
IMO, why are you guys running into a sedo stonewall around your earnings?
Last edited by trader; 02-03-2007 at 11:22 AM. Reason: full post value not fully appreciated
I'm not a fan of "Area 51" conspiracies, Dave. I don't own typo domains, tm domains and my handful of adult names are mild compared to some I've seen here. I do own domains with traffic though that have a high conversion rate. That benefit has been taken away by sedo's "yoyo" PPC rates for a range of related keywords.
Simply put, sedo's revenue knife is curved: the piece of the pie that we receive gets smaller with each cut.
BTW any of you guys received the 1099 forms for 2006 yet?
Call it Area 51 if you wish.
Last edited by trader; 02-03-2007 at 11:22 AM. Reason: full post value not fully appreciated
So you're telling me sedo is manually tweaking each account's earnings based on their whim? They don't respond to inquiries, what makes you think they'd spend time flagging accounts and/or fine-tuning them? I've noted the "yoyo" behavior of PPC: it hits highs for short periods of time (bursts) and then goes down beyond any logic. Several others noted the same. It does not follow market trends, especially with the record earnings of Google. I could talk on and on but the main element here is that sedo *promised* our earnings would go up after their August changes - that only happened for the first 3 days, after which they apparently realised that we were getting too much money.
Last edited by trader; 02-03-2007 at 11:24 AM. Reason: full post value not fully appreciated.
Namestrands - just like I - concludes that the "bait and switch" approach is used. In the past, I have praised sedo when more metal found my pocket FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC. But when a domain with consistent clickthrough ratio plummets 300% in revenue due to the PPC downfall, what am I supposed to praise sedo for?
The privacy hoopla is a bunch of baloney. Sedo *promised* higher PPC, then they didn't delivered, resorting to the old "optimize your keywords" approach. I'll optimize my keywords alright, at NameDrive.
never mind.Originally Posted by Acroplex
Last edited by trader; 02-03-2007 at 11:24 AM. Reason: never mind
What's happening tonight, everyone is getting on the defensive!!?
Did I accuse you of dishing out baloney? I said that the privacy hoopla is a bunch of baloney - the very bread and butter that Adsense and Google live by.
never mind.
Last edited by trader; 02-03-2007 at 11:25 AM.
Ok, to your subjective opinion I responded already.
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