Wow. I take a night off and 15 posts. Wow.
Let's clarify a few things, the average RPC in the first quarter of 2009 is exactly the same so far as the RPC in the fourth quarter of 2008. The CTR is up 2 whole points since the 4th quarter. And the overall RPM is up $3.13 since last quarter. One day this week we had more than 25,000 clicks that were paid out more than $1.00.
We have a reason that we block domaintools.com I don't know of any other site like that that we specificially block, but if you have a valid reason why we shouldn't I'll unblock them, it only takes me about 30 seconds.
As far as search engines blocking Parked.com domains, yesterday we received over 800,000 hits from domains with a Google referrer and that wasn't a adsense referrer. Sure some domains to get blocked when they use us, but domains get blocked whether you use a parking company or not.
I think all parking companies and even the mini-site/content companies have a place in this industry. Everybody has different domains, some work with different companies, it usually always depends on the domain. Three weeks ago one of our customers who has been with us for a while asked me why he wasn't making the same money he was a year before I explained that there was the economy thing that was going on. But based on his domains and his traffic I had always told him that I thought he would do better with a Google AFD feed like Sedo, Namedrive, or Fabulous he had tried them before but always came back. I told him to give Sedo or RevenuDirect a try again to see if he saw any changes now, he moved all 5,000 domains and called me about 3 days later all excited that he had doubled his revenue, it's the type of domains that he owns. Yesterday I noticed that all of the domains were back with us again, he called me and said it was short lived and he was making half of what he was with us so he was back again.
I know people who park domains with us and then move them to another Yahoo provider and then move them back 2 weeks later saying that we pay them more than the other provider. And at the same time I have people who come to us from another place and say the other Yahoo provider pays them more so they go back. In this case it's all about the keywords that are on a domain.
Theo - If you have any recommendations, you know that I will always listen, even when we used to fight over the whole Yahoo sucks things I always respected your opinion. Tell me what we are doing wrong and I'll see if I can fix it.
Donny
