Originally posted by Commerce.co.uk
Hi hiOsilver,
I would appreciate your thoughts / evalution on UrlPortfolio.com as i believe 100% you will be impressed.
Thanks,
Barry
Barry,
I will evaluate it, when I have some time. I am still evaluating DomainSpa, and I only look at one new service at a time.
I looked at the URLPortfolio section on domain parking and it looks ok, except that the typos in the text make it look a bit amateurish.
Why do you think that I will be impressed?
The 45% share sounds good, but I would rather have 25% of $25/cpm (yielding me $12.50/cpm) rather than 45% of a $10/cpm (yielding me $4.50/cpm).
In other words, what kind of cpm does the site generate for you?
What are some of your domains on this service?
Do they have good online stats for your domains? Can you check revenue, impressions, rev/imp each day? by any time period? collectively or by individual domain?
How do they pay? Promptness of payments?
By the way, the site lists some names that are its Top 5 Domains by Daily Traffic. I checked TextDates.com and Minger.com, the top 2. I see that the pages have mainly UK advertisers. That is not good. Ideally, if I am checking the site from a US IP address (which I am), the site should serve up mostly US advertisers. This is the problem that I see with Sedo. I have 50% US traffic on my domains, but Sedo serves up 80% UK links.
A really good PPC service will have advertisers from the US, UK, Canada, Oz, other European countries, especially Germany. (Those are the countries where most of the traffic is coming from. I would love to find a service for Asian advertisers & traffic, but so far I know of none.) And depending on the domain and the IP address of the websurfer, the service will serve up the most appropriate links. Now some UK links could be very international, i.e. they are looking for worldwide business. But usually, if their domain name is something like greatloans.co.uk, they will not even be doing business in the US. So, in terms of relevance, this is bad and the click through ratios (and the cpm) will suffer accordingly.