*** VOODOO.com ***

[randomo]

Unfortunately, my domain that is getting the most Voodoo clicks has been averaging about 2 cents a click there lately. Guess I need to try some more keywords (or does your system optimize keywords itself?).

 

[Donny Simonton]

randomo - I'll PM you and explain what I'm seeing.

Donny

 

[Gerry]

Will those of you who have recently moved names from one service to VooDoo give an update?

I know several of you did since this thread started. I'd like to know the results thus far (Where did you move the name from? And how are they performing on VooDoo).

 

[randomo]

At Donny's suggestion, I removed the existing keyword from my highest-traffic domain; RPC has risen since then. Will see if that trend continues. (This is the first place I've had it parked, so I have no basis for comparison, but I'm liking the current numbers.)

 

[BLazeD]

Moved mine from Bodis to Voodoo and back again. Bodis performs better for me.

 

[David G]

I like voodoo.com a lot what with its great ease of use, superb support by Donny, sharp landing pages, good domain for-sale features, and powerful self-optimization but revenue seems to be weaker than expected lately after a real good run in the early stages.

 

[SDX]

Voodoo is still performing amazing for our portfolio!
...
Happy Holidays and HIGH RPC's to ALL! eace:

 

[Raider]

I'm receiving quite a lot of SPAM on domains that use the inquiry form, their clearly getting past the CAPTCHA... I found that a Q & A CAPTCHA works best, Anyway of changing it?

 

[Donny Simonton]

Raider - Can you PM me one of the emails you got? They aren't getting past the captcha via an automated system. They are actually typing everything in by hand. We are using some technology to detect spam, so if you have something that got through please send it to me.

Thanks.

Donny

 

[Raider]

PM sent

 

[Donny Simonton]

Raider - We are working to improve our spam protection on our contact form. We already have a captcha on the page, the issue is that it's really humans in India who they have going to domains and typing in the information. So we are working on a system to lower the potential that you will get these. Some of it is already put in place as of yesterday, but we will continue to improve it over the next few days.

Donny

 

[katherine]

Donny perhaps it would be a good idea to cap the number of submissions per IP per hour as well.

 

[Donny Simonton]

Katherine,
We have done that since day one. The problem is that the problem people have multiple class C's of ip addresses, so blocking one ip doesn't really help because they have about 10k ip addresses. So we are actually looking at spam filtering software, that actually analyses the message of the text kind of like spam filtering software does, I just don't know how well that will work long term. Right now it seems we have 2 companies that are doing the spamming. So we are focusing on those two and see if we can stop them.

We have actually thought about gving our customers the ability to say that an email they receive is spam and then we can possibly block that way as well. So we are looking at a lot of different options. But we are completely open to any and all suggestions.

Donny

 

[south]

I don't have many domains at voodoo or parked at the moment, so not many coming in here, but a thought:

What about your upstream provider? You are making money for them. They do a pretty good job with spam on their email service. Do they have some sort of api or rbl that could help?

 

[Donny Simonton]

South - I've already been there and asked them, but you gave me a better idea that should really work.

So thanks.

Donny

 

[Donny Simonton]

After looking at the mail that came through in the past 24 hours, only one email that I would consider to be spam slipped through. And after a few configuration changes, that will be blocked going forward. I'll keep watching it for the next few days, but I almost consider this to be a success.

Donny

 

[DreamTeam]

Would love to know which For Sale method is getting the highest percentage of inquiries.. That would be an interesting stat.

 

[David G]

Would love to know which For Sale method is getting the highest percentage of inquiries.. That would be an interesting stat.

Ditto.

 

[Donny Simonton]

We do not track sales, as that is not the business that we are in, yet. But so far the banner and ribbon are basically tied based on what I consider to be realistic questions. I don't consider "this is cool" or "My name sabbir" to be real questions.

Is there some design that people would like us to add?

The spam that was mentioned a week ago has basically completely been shut down as of now. I'm sure the will come back at some point, but we are better prepared now going forward.

Donny

 

[David G]

Hi Donny, Not sales but the highest percentage of inquiries/responses from your various for sale options.