Is it just me or Sedo is paying really bad?

[Vorty]

Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone else is noticing a decrease in revenues from Sedo?

I have mostly european traffic?

Cheers

 

[Theo]

Right now I'm experiencing a drop in EPC which brings revenue down. How much, it depends. But yes, this month so far is much lower than December.

 

[windyreddy]

The drop has been severe. The parking income is dropping by the day !

 

[Gerry]

Disaster from my point of view. Especially when CTR is up, and PPC is pathetic.

 

[south]

The drop has been severe. The parking income is dropping by the day !

From nickels to pennies?

 

[draggar]

From nickels to pennies?

If you're lucky.

I use Parking as a paceholder until I can develop the doamins (or sell them). It's also a fair measure of natural traffic (backlinks, typeins, etc.). Parking companies have learned that they can keep more and more of the $$$ and still retail most of their customers - hence why people have been saying it's best to move to development over the past few years for the vast majority of names out there.

 

[hugegrowth]

Everywhere is paying really bad. All my accounts that pay per click (parking or otherwise) are going lower from what I see.

I also use Sedo parking sometimes after I get a domain, just park it to see what traffic it gets before doing something else with it.

 

[windyreddy]

Yesterday was exceptionally poor . Sedo should explain !!

 

[Vorty]

Parking companies have learned that they can keep more and more of the $$$ and still retail most of their customers - hence why people have been saying it's best to move to development over the past few years for the vast majority of names out there.

Agreed. Although it is quite easy to develop, it is very hard / time consuming to do it properly. Mini pages are just garbage, and parking was a decent option to make some money until you develop a good site.

 

[dmyre]

My revenue went from an average of .20 - .30 RPC down to .05 RPC, within the last few days.
I had to jump ship, and go back to parked.com which isn't doing much better.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

All parking revenues stink right now.

If you don't have a good portfolio and sell names regularly it will be tough sledding.

-=DCG=-

 

[Gerry]

Yes, sedo PPC sucks, just like there service (or lack thereof) in responding to these issues.

Beginning to wonder why even bother with these separate subformums if there continues to be missing in action respondents.

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As Confucius say;

Get thee to Bodis.

 

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

It is not surprising that service stinks on ppc, they make more money selling domains so that's where most of the concentration is going.

-=DCG=-

 

[Gerry]

It is not surprising that service stinks on ppc, they make more money selling domains so that's where most of the concentration is going.

-=DCG=-

Okay, the get a commission selling domains. Granted.

But if they are paying out pennies per click and pocketing the dollars per click, I'd be willing to bet they are making more money on the PPC side of things. Consider the hundreds of thousands of clicks per day they register. If they pay out only a fraction (say 8 cents on the dollar) of hundreds of thousands of clicks, well...perhaps now you see where the real money is on a day in and day out basis. No one in that organization will reveal what the true payout is but I would be willing to bet it is in the 15-20% range (even that is probably too generous).

Lets say it is 13%. If their parking revenue generates 100,000 dollars per day and their payout is $13K, they are pocketing $83K per day. Very, very doubtful they take in that type of commission on sales day in and day out.

It is quite evident that they are not going to address the issues of parking revenue because they do not have to. When I see clicks a year ago that paid over a dollar per click day in and day out and now only pennies per click then that says it all.

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Does anyone know if they are required to file an annual report? either in the US or in Germany?

Find that and you will see precisely that the issue is not only a lower PPC but a generous donation to their own pockets.

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Have fun with this...
http://investing.businessweek.com/b...tocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=SDO:GR

 

[irongloves]

By reading your link to the BW data it seems who is getting most of the fat is the feed provider on the Top of the pyramid (Google).

Sedo numbers have been dropping in the years.

The NET INCOME column says it all.

P.S. beware of those saying they are not evil...

 

[windyreddy]

Sedo has hit new lows ! My last month with them.

 

[dn-101]

OK,
Parking guys are all thieves. Nothing new.
Solution:

We need COOP PARKING SOLUTION.

What I suggest is that we organize a parking company that distributes 95% of it's revenue to coop owners. 95% is the magic number that REITs pay in order to avoid taxation.
No middlemen, no Monties, no Snapname crooks and other sh!t

:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Gerry]

Sedo has hit new lows ! My last month with them.

I have stopped logging into my account simply because I know how pitiful it is.

 

[Theo]

Despair not, April started with unusually high PPC for me that have continued for the past 5 days. It's more proof that the "faucet" is being tweaked.

 

[WeBuyThe.Com]

If you aren't happy with your PPC results you can always sell your names.