Greeting from Hitfarm

[Hayden Johnston]

Greetings,

It's Hayden Johnston from Hitfarm.com here. Just wanted to extend a very warm welcome from the Hitfarm Team and let you know I am here to answer any questions or comments you may have about our parking service.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,

Hayden

[ca11]

Hey Hayden,

Thanks for stopping by. Mind me asking you about the $500 minimum to park at your service? I happen to have a sizeable portfolio and like to spread the names over were they provide a decent ctr and $/click for certain keywords and would only meet your minimum if I would place all my portfolio there, something that might not get me the maximum revenue.

Any thoughts on this? Is this a premium domains targetting strategy? Any pointers? Thanks!

[tonyfloyd]

Hi Hayden.....

Welcome!...I too, would also like to hear your feedback to ca11's post above...

Tony

[wmloz]

I've got a 95% of my names at hitfarm. They are as good as any of the other well known services. The system is slow on my PC for some reason, but I got an email saying a new version was coming out. A new control panel is overdue. Other big, big problem is that it estimates HUGE numbers at the end of the day, and the next day you've got maybe 20% of what was estimated. Like the others, not perfect.

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[TheWatcher]

Are they using yahoo or google feeds?

[Hayden Johnston]

Greetings,

Thanks for all of your questions and comments.

Below you will find many of the answers to your questions:

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For years Hitfarm has been positioned as an exclusive parking provider within the domain space monetizing some of the largest domain portfolios in the world. How do we do it? Through:

·Superior Monetization
Hitfarm’s parent company, Reinvent Technology, owns and operates a portfolio of several hundred thousand domain names which it has leveraged to secure the best upstream revenue share agreement in the industry that we pass on to our clients at Hitfarm! Examples of domains from our Reinvent portfolio that are currently parked at Hitfarm include: Hdtv.com, Laptop.com, Mother.com

·Better Optimization
Our self-interest in the domain space guarantees that you will see the best optimization techniques employed on your domains when parked at Hitfarm. We have recently acquired a world leading semantic technology company to ensure we display the right keywords, to the rights users at the right time across your domains.

·Greater Transparency
Use our totally re-designed, widget based interface to compare your portfolio against the Reinvent portfolio and the entire Hitfarm client portfolio (New Interface Coming Soon!).

·Excellent Customer Service
As soon as your account is opened you will be assigned an Account Manager. Our Account Managers are extremely knowledgeable, professional and will help you every step of the way.

·Outstanding Reporting
We provide extensive domain and account statistics so you can accurately track the performance of your domain portfolio.
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If you wish to submit an application, you can do so by following the link at the top of this sub-forum, by visiting the
Hitfarm Sign-Up Page or by emailing me the following for review:


- List of Domains in your portfolio

- Screenshots verifying revenue on a domain by domain basis
(Please note ote that our monthly minimum for account
consideration is $500)

- Current Parking Provider

- Telephone Number


Rest assured that any information provided will be treated with strict confidence. Please note that only applicants who provide the
necessary information will be contacted.

I look forward to working with you!

Cheers,

Hayden

Hello ca11,

Generally, we only consider applicants that meet our monthly minimum of $500, but considerations will be made to those applicants who may have a solid name or two and come up just shy of the $500/month threshold. Whilst we adhere quite strictly to our monthly minimum policy, we also hold quality names in high regard.

For us, the more traffic you send, the better your overall rev share will be. Said another way, if you show commitment to us, we will return the favor. Although it may be beneficial for you to spread your names across multiple providers, something practiced by most domainers, it may be more beneficial (in terms of overall revenue) and definitely more convenient to park all of your traffic with one provider. Food for thought.

I would be more than happy to discuss in more detail how we may be able to work together. Feel free to send me an email or PM.

Cheers,

Hayden

[trader]

Originally Posted by Hayden Johnston

......Screenshots verifying revenue on a domain by domain basis.....

It sounds good, but personally I would feel very uncomfortable in providing that domain by domain information. Only to play the Devils Advocate with you (and not saying or even implying Hitfarm would do it) what if you are able to "adjust" the payout percentage either on a domain by domain basis, or an account basis, and you "set" my payout percentage based in-full or to a degree on what they are earning elsewhere?

Perhaps the current PPC provider was paying poorly because the feed was not the best, or the names were not category or keyword optimized well, etc so the earnings may stay the same and at lower than possible levels if based on old revenue stats.

You should know that I have first-hand knowledge setting payout levels is in fact done by some other parking providers, at least on an account basis.


(there was another thread regarding this service so I posted in both the threads)

[Hayden Johnston]

Hello wmloz,

Try using Mozilla FireFox. It is our supported browser. And yes, our new-widget based client interface will be launching soon. It will redefine the way domainers interact with their portfolios! Stay tuned...

As for stats estimates, we are constantly working on improving these, but it is difficult given the limited amount of data we have to work with. I apologize for the frustrations you may have been experiencing, but rest assured this is a known issue and we are working to provide better estimates.

Cheers,

Hayden

[wmloz]

I got a link for PC based Apple Safari and it works a lot faster and looks quite good too.

I'm keen to see the new version. Got an email about a beta version, but that's about it.

I can tell you how to get better estimates. Take your current algorithm for estimates and divide it by about 2.
I'll put it to you like this: RIGHT NOW at 9 pm or so CST, the estimate for ONE of my names is $100 bucks (+/- $5). I've seen the estimates more than double than that for a single day. I bet you tomorrow it will be less than $50. In fact, the average for the last 7 days has been $50 per day. All of the other services have never been off by double.

To update, last night at 9 pm, one of my names had "estimated" revenues of $100. I'm sure by midnight it was higher. The actual revenue today is $18. Isn't an "estimate" supposed to be at least somewhat close to the "actual" number. I'm sure if my client asked me for an estimate and I said $18,000 then submitted an invoice for $100,000 they'd escort me to the door.