You can still turn a profit and pay a more reasonable rate out to your name/traffic owners who rely on those funds to stay in business and pay for basic life expenses and bills.....they (Google) are making money hand over fist whether you believe it or not..Do you all have any idea how many wildly imaginative expenses and operating costs they claim along with every possible tax loophole in and out of the book to make the company appear to make alot less money than they really do? Those guys are laughing their a$$es off all the way to the bank..advertisers are paying at least 3-4 times what you see in your click value in most instances. Those clicks worth $2-$3 to Google might pay you .25-.50 and this surely is not what I would consider a fair multiple. The most reasonable payouts I have seen yet on the Internet come from Yahoo by way of parked.com where I routinely have consistent multiple dollar clicks that google feed providers would pay .25-.50 for. Do what you want guys...but I know where the money is for ME..and it is'nt with Google! If you have consistent high quality traffic in high value markets give parked.com a try.
I have been at parked for the last few months for all my non-adult names. The make crap there. No one clicks on anything. Even when I optimize for better and more relevant terms. I do like the fact that the pay you every two weeks. I tried SEDO it used to be better on some names and now worse on all names.
Adsense for Domains in now in my account I'm going to try it and see. It might suck I will park my names where ever the make the most money. I will will probably start to develop the higher traffic ones soon.
BTW I have no problem with "they (Google) are making money hand over fist whether you believe it or not..Do you all have any idea how many wildly imaginative expenses and operating costs they claim along with every possible tax loophole in and out of the book to make the company appear to make alot less money than they really do?"
I am sure you would be laughing and very happy if you were in their position anyone that does not claim every possible Tax loophole that is legal is a moron especially seeing what our Gov does with our money.
Ditto. The Mysterious disappearing clicks, traffic, and revenue.
Clicks are real, traffic is real, yet Parked found it within their power to totally discount any valid clicks. Domain was a 10 year old former NBA fan site that dropped and I was fortunate to catch it. They site also included a members forum included over 17,000 registered members.
All other parking sites trialed reflected close to and over traffic of 1000+ per day (TrafficZ, Sedo, and NameDrive) on a consitant day to day basis.
Amazing how stats can be altered to reflect all zero's at someone's whim.
And the summation of the response was we don't care how it performed elsewhere or how old it is. We are just telling you what we think.
Account was closed by me after about 5 days of watching this.
Take a look at the terms and conditions of most parking companies and Google and you will see that they do not allow linked traffic. Meaning that if you have a domain that has traffic coming from links such as a domain that drops that had traffic it will not be allowed. They only want type-in or natural traffic. I was told by fabulous that if my names had links they were not a good match for their service. I was also sent reports of links and told to remove the incoming links as many of my names where in a network I developed.
The biggest mistake I ever made with my domains was to take down my network and park all of the names. I thought I would make more, I did for maybe couple of months, but then I lost all of the SEO and PR and then linking was not allowed. It was stupid, you live and you learn.
