Disclosing CPC rates.

totenmaske · Oct 16, 2005

Someone is helping me to optimize my parked pages (SEDO, NameDrive) and is requesting CPC rates from me to analyze. I know with Google this would be a problem but what about the major parking services?

mike031 · Oct 17, 2005

totenmaske said:
Someone is helping me to optimize my parked pages (SEDO, NameDrive) and is requesting CPC rates from me to analyze. I know with Google this would be a problem but what about the major parking services?

not a problem

cayars · Oct 17, 2005

I think the person is asking you for the present CPC rates your presently getting on different parking sites. Nothing special for you to do but to provide what's already in your stats at the 2 or 3 parking sites your presently at.

CPC isn't everything. One site could pay you $1/click and another could pay $0.80. If the 2nd provider has a higher click through rate then you'll end up with more money. RPM (revenue per thousand) is really what matters.

Also a factor for some people is the parking providers stand on incoming links to the domain. Some let you do this while others ONLY want search engine or type-in traffic.

If you have the ability to increase quality traffic to some of your important domains with incoming links, then you can further increase your revenue even if the RPM is lower since you can increase traffic.

Making money parking domain s isn't always a "park a forget about it" experience, or it doesn't have to be. It depends on the amount of time you want to put into it!

Carlo

totenmaske · Oct 18, 2005

cayars said:
Also a factor for some people is the parking providers stand on incoming links to the domain. Some let you do this while others ONLY want search engine or type-in traffic.

If you have the ability to increase quality traffic to some of your important domains with incoming links, then you can further increase your revenue even if the RPM is lower since you can increase traffic.

Co-incidentally Carlo you've hit one of the big questions I've had (and been unable to answer) on the head. I've read through most of the parking services FAQs, TOS and etc and most of them are ambigious at best about what is or isn't acceptable to generate traffic.

And I'd like to thank everyone for their replies as well!