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[Deleted member 78222]

I have around 300 parked with sedo and have been dissapointed since the change with my CTR down and mucked around with the templates for hours and in frustration changed all to lite yesterday and have seen an improvement so far. Mine are cctld'sand average is cpc is very low but will stick it out for a while longer and see what happens. In the meantime anyone have a suggestions for parking cctlds - za

 

[Theo]

The bottom line is, the PPC is hiway robbery. We're putting up with rates SO LOW that are more like 10% of what the feeds pay. Sedo is simply not negotiating "better feeds" for our sake, they are doing it for theirs. Did you see a substantial change in your revenue? I saw a drop! The rest about constant optimization is FLUFF. I have the numbers to prove it. Clicks, hits, the same - PPC DOWN. Hence, revenue drops. As long as the PPC Sedo passes onto us is peanuts on the dollar, we won't see a ****ing better day.

I used to be frustrated and understanding. I am furious and menacing. Take cover!

 

[Deleted member 78222]

My earnings although small have been similar, initially went down then 2 days nicely up but the last few days same old same old.I have noticed that my domains that used to earn are not earning what they used to but others better. I think I must give it a little longer and decide which to move. I must say that parking is not my ideal, have moved a few to adsense and patiently.... waiting for some templates from impactadmin - earnings are 4x or better than parking

 

[9888]

I have received the following spam email twice from Sedo over the last couple of days...was thinking about giving them a try given they "guarantee" an improvement...but after reading this thread think i will give them a miss for now!

Hello,

Greetings from the Sedo.com Boston Office!

You may have recently heard about all of the success that the new SedoPro parking program has earned since we've switched to a higher-paying advertising feed and added fully-customizable landing pages. SedoPro clients have reported seeing increases in CPC and overall RPM anywhere from 30%-300% across their parked domains.

I'd like to take this opportunity to extend you an invitation to test out our newly-revamped parking program with your portfolio. I guarantee that we can beat the earnings of your current provider, as well as offer a variety of new features to help increase revenue for those under-performing names that may be harder to target.

To get started, please feel free to contact myself or one of our SedoPro account managers at [email protected] to see how they can boost your parking earnings right away. I look forward to the possibility of working together.

Sincerely,

Best regards,

Eben G. Smith
Director of Parking: North America

 

[wolfis.com]

got the same email yesterday ( and i park with sedo for close to 4 years) .

i replied and told them what a mess their new system is and that i am ready to move and this is exacly what i started to do today with the first 250 names. the rest will be move very soon if there is no change.

 

[KwelX]

It's definitely alot more work on our end having to test and change keywords once again. If it means a large % increase in rev then I'm fine sucking it up and doing a little extra work but this waiting days for keywords to be approved when changed is killing me. I have 2 pages of domains waiting on approval for a keyword change.

If Sedo expects people to re-tweak their own portfolios then keyword changes must be made in a much faster manner. Or alot of people will lose their patience very fast if they haven't already.

 

[Theo]

The silence from Sedo is quite defeaning.

 

[Fearless]

I had a group of names with the same keyword. After the new feed, the CPC went to 1/3 the old feed. A week later I changed the keyword. The CPC went up to 125% of the old feed/old keyword. This lasted a week or so. Today the new keyword/new feed CPC is back down to 1/3 the old.

 

[Theo]

Even the same keywords spread over different domains in the same category produce wide variations in PPC.

 

[Fearless]

Even the same keywords spread over different domains in the same category produce wide variations in PPC.

They pay more or less per click based on where the click came from. Apparently some big country got on the low click price list yesterday.

 

[Irish31]

I make crap money with most of my domains. Do you guys use templates for your parked sites with Sedo?


I'm such a newb still with how to make money with parking sites..... sigh

 

[brassneck]

Have been pleased by the performance so far, but noticed a drop of in click through percentage and click value over the last couple of days of the month. Hoping it's just an end of month issue as advertisers exhaust their monthly spend. Anybody else seeing the same?

Stephen.

 

[WeBuyThe.Com]

It's Labor Day weekend here in the states (Last weekend of the summer) I expect traffic will probably remain low until Tuesday when everyone returns from holiday. Rest assured though, each month should get stronger as xmas approaches.

 

[brassneck]

I agree with your assessment, except my domains are all UK registrations with 90% of the traffic from the UK so unlikely to be really affected, I think, by US holidays.

Stephen.

 

[Theo]

On Labor Day weekend people don't go "on holiday", they are supposed to shop, lounge and surf more. And yes, another shitty day so far from the new super-duper feeds. Sedo is tweaking their code on our backs and at our monetary expense.

 

[maroulis]

i moved majority of domains to klickerz and also a new service was just announced parkednames.com from Arlo supposedly it has 100% rev share and landers look very good.... I think i've had it w/Sedo

 

[RatherGood]

Revenue is down for me big time over the past 2 weeks. At least 30% each day - some days are down as much as 50-60%.

 

[dvdrip]

My revenue is going down since March. Today is an all time low. Nice work losers. See ya!

 

[actnow]

i moved majority of domains to klickerz and also a new service was just announced parkednames.com from Arlo supposedly it has 100% rev share and landers look very good.... I think i've had it w/Sedo

Who is ParkedNames.com ?

And, who is arlo?

I went to the ParkedNames sites. How can a company pay 100%?

What is an example of his landing pages?

Has anyone ever received a payment?

Is he using Yahoo, Google or something like Skenzo?

Since, those feeds don't pay for 45 days the following month, how can he
pay every week? 7 days after the week before.

 

[Fearless]

i moved majority of domains to klickerz and also a new service was just announced parkednames.com from Arlo supposedly it has 100% rev share and landers look very good.... I think i've had it w/Sedo

parkednames.com gets this great plug but their sign up form doesn't work.
I called him. They don't use Google or Yahoo. I don't see how they can complete even at 100% rev share.