Is it only me or something wrong with Parked.com?

[NameGuy]

I'm not griping at Parked. The key is SAME LETTERS, SAME KEY WORDS on both names. Makes no sense to me other than the yahoo discriminating the .net for whatever reason which does make me want to gripe -- to yahoo.

[stock_post]

I am in the same boat and I posted that couple of days ago.

[Donny Simonton]

We are working on the 0 revenue clicks right now that is why stats have been behind for the past few hours.

Yahoo was reducing the minimum bid from 10 cents to 5 cents, but it was only on the long tail keywords.

Two domain names, one .com and the other the .net. The .com makes .40 to .60, the .net makes .01. My question is which countries are the traffic coming from.

Donny

[NameGuy]

That must be it Donny. The .com was 68% US and the rest was mainly european countries. The .net was 50% netherlands, 50% russia. The .net was parked about a week, so probably not a real good sampling and it might improve over time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I hope you get your feed providers worked out. Here's a really far out question... What are the chances of you guys getting a contract with Yahoo AND Google? The best of both worlds so to speak. Is that even remotely possible?

[Focus]

then parked.com might literally take over the planet..lol

[Donny Simonton]

NameGuy - We basically did have the best of both worlds with a Yahoo and an Ask contract. But I think too many people followed our lead and Ask got too big and Google pulled the plug on their syndication feed.

Yahoo and Google don't work well together. They both want to be #1 and neither of them are. Yahoo for the most part kicks Google's *** in the markets they are in. But Google blows Yahoo away in the markets that Yahoo is not in. So we had the perfect solution, but not anymore. So now we are working on the best solution that we can create with what we have available today.

I think over the next few weeks our secondary system will definitely continue to get much better then it is today. As we continue to fine tune how our system works with these new feed providers.

Donny

[hydroboi]

Great News to hear, thanks Donny i know these are trying time for everyone!

[kayb]

could it also be due to the fact that last week or so Yahoo Search Marketing reduced the minimum bid for sponsored search keywords from $0.10 to $0.01?

I dont think that Yahoo have reduced its minimum bid. Went through their search marketing program, it still shows minimum bid as 10 cents. Have a look:
http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/s...ketingcost.php

Also, replacing the google feed via ask is close to impossible. My experience says, all secondary ad feed providers pay 10-20% of what google and yahoo pay.