Questions?

[Donny Simonton]

It seems this thread and most of the parking threads has been a little quiet lately. Does anybody have any questions?

Donny

 

[Biggie]

Hi Donny

since you asked....

when can we expect some new templates and new images

i'd also like to see the "referral" traffic to my domains as part of stats

Thanks
Don

 

[Donny Simonton]

Don,
We added 2 new templates in January. The first one we call "Modern" which is our new default, and the second one is a search box only style. We still offer our two original designs called Alpha and Generic. The Modern one usually shows a 8% increase in overall revenue compared to the other 2 main templates.

As far as new images, we add new ones everyday when people request something we don't have. Normally we don't change the existing ones, just because what one person doesn't like somebody else may like. It's funny the requests we get. I would like a "2010 Porsche 911 with a backdrop European River".

We are storing the information on the referring urls for domains. And it will be available soon. I think two months ago we added the ability to see what country your traffic is coming from. And it's funny how often, I actually use it myself.

Donny

 

[Biggie]

Don,
We added 2 new templates in January. The first one we call "Modern" which is our new default, and the second one is a search box only style. We still offer our two original designs called Alpha and Generic. The Modern one usually shows a 8% increase in overall revenue compared to the other 2 main templates.

As far as new images, we add new ones everyday when people request something we don't have. Normally we don't change the existing ones, just because what one person doesn't like somebody else may like. It's funny the requests we get. I would like a "2010 Porsche 911 with a backdrop European River".

We are storing the information on the referring urls for domains. And it will be available soon. I think two months ago we added the ability to see what country your traffic is coming from. And it's funny how often, I actually use it myself.

Donny

are you adding these "newly requested" images to the "existing image pool", or do those requested images remain only in "requestors" account?


also, as you know, over time ppc's have come and went, and new one's are always on the horizon.

how is voodoo positioning itself to stay competive with platforms like IT and others as the ppc industry continues to evolve?

 

[Donny Simonton]

Yes, new images are added to the existing image pool. They are not specific to one persons account.

Every parking company tries to be different in some ways. We try to give our customers everything that we are offered. And give them the ability to use those features/options however they see fit. For example, we are the first parking company to offer the new image ads from our upstream provider. It's basically a text ad, but just a graphical version of it. We give you the option to turn that on or off on all of our designs.

Some companies don't allow you to set a keyword or keywords for your domain. We give you that option, because it's an option for us.

If we get information about your domain, we tell our customers about it. We are one of the only ones that tells our customers if one of our upstream providers has banned/blocked one of their domains.

The one thing that we do really well is we a/b test everything all of the time. And based on the information we get we can make small tweaks to the layouts or for example the number of ads that are displayed.

Donny

 

[BobDiGiTaL]

I have a question.
Can you start a new parking company?

 

[Focus]

(Or bring back parked and the old yahoo feed for that matter lol)

searchnut=? :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Donny Simonton]

Bob, what do you mean create a new parking company? What's wrong with Voodoo?

Focus - Searchnut! That's still one of the funniest domains we ever did. The back story for the squirrel still makes me laugh.

Donny

 

[Focus]

I still remember when you bought the Voodoo url in New Orleans at the auction I was sitting there next to you and you raised the paddle I was like oh no he didn't! haha, man those were good times (esp parking wise)

 

[Biggie]

What's wrong with Voodoo?

Since you asked


Hi Donny!

EPC has been slipping into darkness,


and not much creativity with the templates.




imo....

 

[Donny Simonton]

It's really hard to be creative with such limited things we are able to do with designs. We are always open to ideas on designs.

As far as RPC, I think it's hitting the whole industry.

Just some recommendations. Our auto-optimization usually generates about 12% higher revenue on a normal basis based on our testing. It will set your domains to either a 1 click or a 2 click based on the country the traffic is coming from.

Donny

 

[Biggie]

K

Thanks for advice