Fabulous vs. Sedo?

[Frontline]

Hey guys, I wanted to get some opinions on Fabulous PPC vs sedo PPC. Ive been doing alright with sedo as I get around 50k impressions a month on my various domains and was thinking about trying out fabulous. Have any of you who have compared the two had better results with Fabulous compared to sedo? Just wanted some opinions here before I start changing nameservers etc.

Thanks in advance!

[JMJ]

I'm using fabulous and sedo. All my names are now using fabulous nameservers and on the domains that do well with sedo I'm pointing them at Sedo's landing page.

Why you may ask.

1. It resolves the issue of Sedo not catching the sublink traffic.

2. I can double check how many hits I'm truely receiving.

3. I can add popups (as in have my reseller site popup also.) or other advertisements.

As far as the names that weren't performing well as Sedo I'm testing them at fabulous with the many different ways to use the name.

[hiOsilver]

Sleazy,

I review both of these PPC services on my website:
www.PPCIncome.com
In brief, I have received consistently better revenue at Fabulous.com. The few domains that have done well at sedo are those that do best with UK advertisers, as sedo is strong in that area. I do even better with Domain Sponsor. There is a fairly extensive review on each of these services, and more, on my website.

[TurNIC.com]

I haven't tried Fabulous but I use sedo. sedo is great both in US or Non-US traffic. The comment about non-US domains mentioned above is not correct. The tip is in the quality of your domain. If you have, say, mortgage, bank or travel domains they earn alot. Click through rates are quite high. I even have 65% rate in some domains. SEDO deserves an A+++ here to be mentioned. They live with same hours as we European lives so we connect easy. They have very friendly customer support. Also no need to mention the better chance of selling your names with SEDO as it was already known.

Additionaly, I do not have to deal with stinky PayPal (though you have still that option). I receive my earning directly to my account with wire transfer at 16th with net amount without any cut. I do not have to wait stinky US check to come here and have to wait 40 days to cash in and part lots of fees to banks.

So use SEDO!!!

TurNIC.com

[Frontline]

Overall I have found that Sedos cost per click since they use google is much higher for me than fabulous, although fabulous as a registrar is great in my opinion. Lots of neat tools, especially the stats and you can customize your landing page templates to actually make em look good. But the Roar results are just too low compared to sedo for my domains at least.

[pigman]

I have some domains at sedo currently get 15k expressions a month, but Im not satisfied with the earnings. So I will probably try and change to Fabolus.

[dvdrip]

Anyone knows how can I redirect all my traffic to sedo without using their nameservers?
JoltHost said that sedo is not catching the sublink traffic.
I want to able to redirect all the 404 traffic and also have control to my stats, to be able to add popups etc.
I tried using php and htaccess but can't make it to work.

[OnSpec]

I have tried both. All are now at Fabulous.

[Yojimbo]

I have tried both as well. All are now back at sedo.

[Frontline]

Fabulous is great with optmization and everything, but honestly the per click payouts can't compete without sedo at least for my domains. Fabulous however has become my registrar of choice.

[mike031]

dvdrip, simply edit the 404 files on your web server... insert a redirect to the sedo.com/blah.com landing page as well as the code of your pop ups.

[dvdrip]

I am using htaccess:
This will work:
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mydomain.com/index.php
but this will not:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

I need the later so I can host many domains together.
If I use the former all my traffic will just go to one domain so it will not be targeted.

[mike031]

insert the following code into the 404 page, it will allow you to send to a specific location...

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;
url=http://www.sedo.com/blah.com">

[dvdrip]

This is what I don't want to do.
I need each domain going to a dirrerent sedo page not the same.
All my domains poing to the same "page".

[mike031]

well then you need to physically host each of your domains on a web server... seperately, that way you will have a 404 page for each of your domain names

[Nameable]

It's easy. We already do this.

Step 1:
Set up a .htaccess with the following:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

(you can add 400, 401, 402, 403... if you will be forwarding all traffic)

Step 2:
Create a file called index.php with the following php code:

header('Location: http://www.sedo.co.uk/parking/'.$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]);

That's it.

If you're concerned about catching traffic to *.domain.com (not just www. and domain.com), you'll need a function to rewrite your HTTP_HOST variable. I can supply such a function, but coding is our primary business, so I'm not in the habit of giving out code for free.

[dvdrip]

I have done this.
The problem is that
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
will not work where
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.domain.xxx/index.php
will work.

I can't think why.

[theparrot]

Is mod rewrite being used?

[dvdrip]

No.

[clemzonguy]

My recommendation. If you are serious about selling domains use Fabulous.

You will get a lot more direct offers from people. sedo has too much horsecrap involved. I find I have to click through like 2-3 pages just to get to an offer page. Too many distractions with their pages. I like clean and simple.

For A Fabulous Example Page
http://www.torrentforum.com

Plus it ads links to your other domain sites in the same category and with meta tags, customizable pages and clip art as an add-on option. I don't see how you can go wrong. Not to mention you can customize pop-over,under,on-exist pages including other URLs. If you don't like the affiliates then use some of your own. You can still retain the frame at the bottom of the page for offers. The stats are "fabulous".

Overall get off your lazy butts and optimize your pages and track hits you might just be missing out on traffic and buy offers from people who otherwise wouldn't know how to contact you. I'd rather sell a site for $500-$5,000 than to worry about making $5-50 off of it in a year's time. Course I guess if you can do both then we have a winner....that winner if Fabulous in my honest opinion. Check out the article on DNjournal.com