Hi guys,
Mr. Administrator. This is another sea of text. However, Iâm not trying to self-advertise in any way, simply defending ourselves. If you object, PM me and Iâll change it.
Here we goâ¦..
Iâm sorry to hear that some of you arenât happy with the way things are going with us. Iâll answer you in turn. Before I do, though, Iâd just like to point to what I said 4 weeks ago when we first broke onto the US scene:
I think a lot of people forget that weâve only been in business for a month. Weâre competing here on a smaller budget and with fewer resources against people who have been in business for several years and can afford to subsidize clients to keep smaller players out of the market, sit back and watch the cash roll in. To be quite honest, were it not for an ecstatic post from one of our members on here at the beginning of the September, you probably wouldnât even have heard of NameDrive yet as we planned to grow slow and steady and wanted to be at 100% capacity before entering the cut-throat US market. Not only cut-throat because of the other companies in competition but because of the astronomically high expectations of US parkers and their apparent delight in smacking any program down before having a chance to prove itself.
In our fist 4 weeks, we have regularly beaten Sedoâs payouts, Domain Sponsorâs payouts, other parking companiesâ payouts even direct Overture feeds
I said right at the beginning to test us with caution because we are hugely confident of our potential but will doubtless have teething problems â this didnât foresee being knocked back for a week with the DoS attack. Our forward progress has sadly been affected by having to deal with this kind of thing, having to weed out the myriad of fakers who thought ânew program. Excellent, they must be stupid, I can go and fake thereâ and not least having to deal with our own popularity. For the last 2 weeks, we have been in the top 10 of the fastest-growing DNS servers in the world and catering for such a massive influx of interest and traffic has slowed our potential to crank up the program to be as high-earning and perfect as we want it to be.
Despite all this, we still have a lot of clients who have praised our service and payouts, so we are on the right track. However, if people test two low-performance domains from elsewhere, it is hard to see how we can really help them to perform if other companies are also unable to do so.
Having said all of this, it does not mean that we are not capable of handling the traffic well and shouldnât be tested. The fact is that we are very pleased with our first monthâs results, as are a great number of our clients, but what we offer now is not the be-all and end-all. This is the first step from which we intend to improve significantly.
One of our main objectives is to offer 100% transparency in everything we do. That is why we maintain a high profile on the boards, answer every question asked of us and explain to you everything we do and why we do it. If people earn more with a less-transparent company who cover up clicks at either end of the spectrum, then you are free to leave, though we would very much hope that is not the case.
OK. Indvidual questions:
MJM: Having looked at our Google stats for the last 4 weeks, I can say that Google, in all their great wisdom, may decide that a click from Idaho on Monday is worth significantly more than a click from Berlin on Tuesday. We pay out practically everything that we receive from Google. If they pay us $7 on one day and $0.07 the next, we pay it out, simple as that. The decision on how much to pay for a click is based on what we are paid for the click, it is not regulated by us.
My point about the $7 was in no way meant to âlureâ people into trying us out in the hope of âsuper clicksâ. My point was that we, unlike other parking companies, do not put a cap on potential earnings. Equally, we, unlike other companies do not subsidize our users by putting a minimum PPC price on there to keep people happy. We pay out exactly what we receive from the Goog. As I said in an earlier post on this thread, that has its pros and its cons.
I am not in any position to comment on your specific account because I donât have enough information. If you email or PM me, then Iâll look into the 300% decrease and your potential loss of hundred of dollars lost daily compared to Sedo. I think that everyone here can vouch that we are extremely pro-active in support and will look into it immediately. Iâm surprised you didnât come to me earlier if weâre doing so drastically badly for you as it is obviously a concern for both you personally and us professionally, especially as we are regularly matching or beating Sedo on PPC.
I know you werenât too impressed with my $7 â $0.07 example, but, surely if revenue drops 300%, then donât you end up paying us money for your clicks?
I read on another post by you that you always play the hero and never like to see smaller guys get bullied, but I think by posting that we are paying so abysmally and trying to con people by offering high PPC for clicks of a lifetime without first contacting me about the potential loss of hundreds of dollars daily is a little unfair.
Searchix â Non-updated PPCs. This is something that weâve seen a bit of in the last couple of weeks. A couple of people have questioned why they have a number of domains with 1 view and 1 click which has not been updated. We asked ourselves this and looked into it and it turned out that some bots and been crawling our parked pages and clicking. We counted the click and Google didnât, so we had no revenue to update for you. These should have been filtered and are now filtered. However, had our filtering been stronger in the first place, this view and click would never have been recorded at all, so I suppose youâre getting 0.11 cents that you wouldnât normally. Though, Iâm sure Iâll be taken to task for trying to put a positive spin on it now. Thatâs simply the explanation for non-updated stats.
I appreciate the 48 hour thing is not ideal, we are working to make it much faster.
Mike â Iâm not sure why your PPC is sinking. Iâd say one of the main problems is that they are both in low-PPC areas â namely music and adult. On your adult domain, a third of your clicks have come from Asia, Latin America and âOtherâ which I canât believe is helping matters much. On the music domain, the clicks from these three regions are dragging down the average PPC from Europe and the US.
Is anyone still reading this essay? As I said, we are happy with our first month as ânewbiesâ but we will never sit back and relax. We are constantly looking to improve on our current status and will listen to anyone and everyone who wants to help us improve.
If you have any issues that youâd like me to look at individually, then send me an email and Iâll look into it.
Hope you all have a good weekend.
Thank you.
Ed