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

**googli** · 03-06-2008, 12:29 PM

$.35 for 55 clicks
$.01 for 4 clicks
$00 for 1 click
$.01 for 5 clicks
$0.38 for 62 clicks
(All Finalized stats)

RPM is one forth of what it was previously.

CTR is HALF

Is it only me?

Is the situation likely to improve?

**Rico** · 03-06-2008, 12:42 PM

same shit here

The problem is that Yahoo won't accept traffic for the domain because it considers it sensitve (too close to a trademark). So the domain have been going to our secondary feed. However, our primary provider for our secondary feed, Ask.com was told by their provider, Google that they can no longer provide us with their advertising. So we have implemented a solution that currently includes 12 different PPC providers for the secondary feed with the hope of having that number to around 20 in the next week. We will also include some CPA companies as well for what is called "run of network" traffic or no results traffic. It's not a perfect solution, but overtime it will continue to improve.

As always if you do not want to send traffic to our secondary provider(s), you can set the Alternative Traffic Destination in the Account Information section, it is patented technology we created almost two years ago when at the time we had no international or secondary solution at all. Make sure you use the Primary Only option and that will redirect any domain that is not going to Yahoo. So if you get a hit that Yahoo won't accept, it would be redirected to your choice of locations.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

**fab** · 03-06-2008, 12:47 PM

Same by me as well.

**PeterMan** · 03-06-2008, 01:31 PM

me too, had 5 clicks on one name yesterday for a whopping $0.04

**domain54326** · 03-06-2008, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by elivate

me too, had 5 clicks on one name yesterday for a whopping $0.04

well what type of name and country of traffic?

**PeterMan** · 03-06-2008, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by domain54326

well what type of name and country of traffic?

Not sure where the traffic came from, I will check, it is a gaming domain...

**Donny Simonton** · 03-06-2008, 02:17 PM

The issue with clicks for no money should hopefully be fixed today. The problem is we have one of our providers who is returning non-paid clicks to us. We are working to get it removed.

Donny

**PeterMan** · 03-06-2008, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by donsimon

The issue with clicks for no money should hopefully be fixed today. The problem is we have one of our providers who is returning non-paid clicks to us. We are working to get it removed.

Donny

So are you saying that the clicks will still pay 0 and will be removed from the report?

**charrisg** · 03-06-2008, 02:24 PM

...for that reason everybody think to change...me...i allreday gone..

**Varchar** · 03-06-2008, 02:29 PM

Yes, I noticed that too. I have many single shiny penny clicks. :(

**Donny Simonton** · 03-06-2008, 02:29 PM

No, we are trying to remove the ads that don't make any money. So only have ads that pay like we did before.

Donny

**PeterMan** · 03-06-2008, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by donsimon

No, we are trying to remove the ads that don't make any money. So only have ads that pay like we did before.

Donny

k, I understand what you mean, thanks...

**Focus** · 03-06-2008, 02:38 PM

At least parked.com can still provide monetization for various domains when other places cannot

**NameGuy** · 03-06-2008, 03:15 PM

Explain this:

3 letter .com - .40 - .60 per click
3 letter .net - SAME LETTERS, SAME KEYWORD - .01 per click or less.

Also, my stats haven't moved in about 4 hours.

**Focus** · 03-06-2008, 03:20 PM

Yes, stats seem somewhat behind today..it happens obviously..it's not parked paying low clicks it's Yahoo or some other feed provider that has temp replaced ask.com..and do you know for CERTAIN that the exact same ad was clicked on both domains? NO. Every visitor and click is different, one example of such does'nt mean anything..but I do hear you...I think parked is battling with the feed providers already to ensure we are paid as much as possible but there is only so much they can do. That being said, type-in traffic going to the Yahoo feed under good keywords is paying as usual at parked, I know several people with large portfolio's and good traffic that are having excellent results.

**petrosc** · 03-06-2008, 03:22 PM

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?

**Focus** · 03-06-2008, 03:23 PM

makes sense

**NameGuy** · 03-06-2008, 03:29 PM

I'm not talking about 1 or 2 clicks. It was consistent for many clicks on each name. I had to move the .net back to DS yesterday and today it's had one click - and for $3.32.

**Focus** · 03-06-2008, 03:44 PM

Then it sounds like that .net may do better at DS...I too have had a random name or two get "more" per click one day somewhere else but overall at the end of the month they seem to make more money at parked because the CTR% is always much higher for me at least...good to see people staying on top of their names and making sure everything is optimized, that's what making the most money is all about..OPTIMIZATION.