is parked better than sedo?

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is parked better than sedo?

if so, how do they differ?

Do parked.com pages or sites get indexed in Google?

Do they get indexed in Yahoo and msn?

I have about 500 domains so, Please help me understand this.

As of today I have 120 domains at sedo 200 impressions and 4 clicks gave me a total of $0.31 -- This month data for clicks and amount.

Planning to switch all of them to Parked.com

Are there categories like if you have 100 domains you get a special berth (grage or level) etc?


Have no clue on where the traffic comes from etc.
I am based in US.


Edit: Some of the guys were confused that the figures given are for one month.
It is actually for the first 10 days of the month.

As of today it gave me an additional $0.06 <-- for 3 clics

Making the total to $0.37 for about 400 impressions and 7 clicks.

--This for 13 days of this month..





Thanks

[DomainingCom]

200 impressions per day / week / month ?

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That is the total for all domains 120 of them for this month.
as of today. I may have taken couple of them off.. not sure if they update when I take the domain off or not.

[DomainingCom]

Not sure to understand.

Are you saying that with 120 domains parked at sedo you only generated a total of 31 cents per month !!!???

This look likes a joke.

[xnx]

IMO PARKED is far superior to sedo even with the estimates thread. sedo pays you for one click Parked pays you for as many as the surfer clicks

Focus has said he has gotten FIRST page Google so it seems that they get indexed in the search engines too

[Acro]

Parked was quick to disqualify lots of multiple clicks of my traffic as "bot traffic" and to reverse the estimated revenue. Take that into consideration, there is an active thread in this forum. Also, I was never treated with indignity by sedo employees, no matter how intensely I complained about various problems in the past; however there has been plenty of irony and contempt coming from Parked.

[xnx]

Theo I am just saying for me on a couple domains that only got 1 click on sedo they got more on Parked, I agree that thread got totally out of hand. And the estimating is a joke

[Acro]

In that thread I definitely mentioned the positive elements of Parked, however I was given answers that looked half-baked and cookie cutter. Currently, my move back to sedo looks stable. The bottom line is, one should make the move either way and decide for themselves what works best.

[xnx]

THEO you ever try Fabulous I have done well there and they want your kind of domains com/net/org

[GoPC]

They both have their positives and negatives.

sedo - Won't pay you for multiple clicks. So domains that normally get 150% click through are going to suffer at sedo BIG TIME.

Parked - Many times the landers are TWO CLICK landers. Which means, when a visitor hits your site, they first have to click a topic and THEN, assuming there is something relevant that pops up again, they click on an ad and you get paid.

Sedo - Seems to pay a bit higher (or at least claims to) for the 1st click because they aren't paying for subsequent clicks (but they are still getting paid... odd, eh?) but if you make 2% more for the first click and loose 100% of every click thereafter... what's the point?

Parked - Seems to arbitrarily void clicks based on what THEY think may have been a fraudulent click. There's no transparency there, so there's no telling if they are taking money away from you or not.

Along those same lines, Parked also gives you an "estimated" payout based on the average of what that keyword HAS been paying system wide (or some such factor) so what you see on theh current days earnings won't resolve and show the CORRECT earnings for almost 24 more hours. I have never, ever seen it adjust UP... ALWAYS down. For many, that's a shock. I'm used to it.

While there are others, this seems to be the biggest gripes most people have.

On the upside, Sedo allows you to post different keywords for sub catagories and even additional keywords by LANGUAGE. So you can REALLY fine tune what people see when they visit your site and hopefully increase CTR (although CTR will never bee more than 100%... go figure).

The downshot is that Sedo's graphics and page designs pretty much suck.

The upshot to Parked is that the system seems to be VERY intuitive in finding the correct keywords for your domains and setting them automatically.

As an added benefit, their landers have what seems to be an ENDLESS supply of great graphics and pictures to choose from... whithin their preset catagory.

Sucks sometimes if you want to have a CAR graphic for a non-car site... won't let you.

Those are my personal gripes.

I have about 80% of my domains at Parked right now, maybe 15% at SedoPro and the rest are scattered with Fabulous, Domain Sponsor, Traffic Club, TrafficZ and others.

While I am always looking for the better service... My percentages show where I am happiest at the moment.

Best of luck,

GoPC

[Acro]

I've found sedo's "blue" theme with optimized image to be very effective with the traffic it targets. Parked has a very intelligent system that identifies the closest related theme based on keyword splitting; however it's not infallible. Parked's templates are plain and easy to tell that they are such; sedo's can "fool" someone into thinking they arrived at a business directory. NameDrive takes it to a whole other level and create portals (not perfect either).

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I am very happy to see the response.

Very good replies.

That is true that I only got 0.31 for 120 domains. (most of my domains are LLLL.com - may not be getting good traffic like most of you guys were gettin.

I will take about 100 to Parked and try them for now.

Agan, Appreciae all the responses.

[DomainingCom]

What you say it's crazy!

If you are earning 31 cents for 120 domains parked for one month then choice another parking service will not change your incomes.
Assuming the other parking service is 10 times more efficient (which I doubt) we are ONLY talking here about a $2.70 monthly revenue increase!!

My opinion is what it make sense is try to sell your domains not find a better parking service.

I am wondering how these old domainers here was not astonished by these numbers????

I plan to post questions about type-in, because this look likes so crazy, absurd, ... I hope to get more responses I get with predator NameMedia.


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[boziffous]

Parked has worked well for me. My results with sedo were perhaps the worst out of any parking company that I tried. sedo works great for some people but judging by your numbers it doesn't seem to be working for you. I too have been indexed on the first page of Google with Parked. In fact one of the domains I just added to Parked about a week ago is already on the first page of Google for the keyword.

[georgeh]

I have accounts at several parking companies including parked and sedo.
By far, Parked is my number one choice for parking.
Parked pay mutiple clicks for the same visit.
Yesterday, one of my domains has 1 unique visitor, and astonishing 51 clicks. Parked paid for all 51 clicks. This unique visitor made about $5 for me.

[Acro]

I'm surprised Donny didn't cancel all these clicks as "bot traffic" as he did with mine. But wait, there is always tomorrow.

[Gerry]

Yesterday, one of my domains has 1 unique visitor, and astonishing 51 clicks. Parked paid for all 51 clicks. This unique visitor made about $5 for me.

If this doesn't sound like a bot, I don't know what does. And if this doesn't sound like a plant, I don't know what does.

12 visitors, 20 clicks on a domain name that is 7 years old. Parked said they were all bots and canceled every one of them.

Give me a break with the 1 unique and 51 clicks. If that is not transparent enough for anyone to question than I don't know what is. Someone's cat walking on the keyboard and Parked paid for them all.

[georgeh]

The 1 visitor/51 clicks was the actual confirmed data.
The estimate data show no visitors/clicks for this domain yesterday.
I don't think there will be further adjustment.

[Acro]

Doc, it's odd because both yours and mine were ticket-buying related (NBA and NASA). Seems that the big boys don't like people to do exactly this: browse and click on links. One other big thing coming our way - on our back and traffic - is the claim that our clicks didn't result in a purchase. If I wanted to use such traffic I'd just be an affiliate.

[Gerry]

Doc, it's odd because both yours and mine were ticket-buying related (NBA and NASA). Seems that the big boys don't like people to do exactly this: browse and click on links. One other big thing coming our way - on our back and traffic - is the claim that our clicks didn't result in a purchase. If I wanted to use such traffic I'd just be an affiliate.

I agree...and to this day they (Parked, aka Donnie and Monte) are claiming the hits and clicks are bots. It's okay that these domain names performed admirably at both sedo and NameDrive (on my domain).

A legitimate 7 year old domain that dropped and is a former fan website for the NBA Sacramento Kings...the first day and all subsequent days it is at Parked, they claim it is "bots". Easier to make that claim than to pay the $9.00-$12.00 "pre adjustment estimates" on a daily basis.

BleacherMob.com sedo results:

November 2006 (purchased mid-late November)
520 Views
$21.56 Revenue

December 2006
1,750 Views
$9.91 Revenue

The reason I moved this domain was Sedo was ignoring keywords and optimization. Ads showing up were BLEACH, BLEACHERS, MOB, MOB CONTROL, and THE CLUB (anti car theft device).

Took off line to determine what the problem was.

Moved to NameDrive:

Less than one month totals 767 17hits $1.58

Found the same issue with the Google Feeds ignoring keywords and determining their own keywords based on the actual name itself. When the site was viewed at name drive, same BLEACH, BLEACHERS, etc as Sedo. Thanks Google.

Towards end of March, moved to Parked.

So, how can Parked say this is bot and bot activity? Their claim is their "downstream advertisers won't pay for it". Then they damn sure need to be getting different downstream advertisers.