Rise and Fall of Gold Key

[actnow]

My GoldKey revenue took off like a rocket and fell to earth just as quick.

I have been hearing people blame it on SEO problems.

Others have blamed it on the landing keywords that Yahoo is not optimizing correctly.
And, unwilling to correct them.

I really like their page headers but the people at the other PPC services
say that headers don't make a difference.

Plus, I feel that more competition will only help us and the visitors that visit our
sites.

What has been your experiences with Goldkey?

And, what do you think GoldKey and Yahoo needs to do to turn around the situation?

 

[Blarian]

Their reputation has gone down so far, I don't know that they can possibly turn the situation around.

What they need is a really good competitor with similiar techniques, IMO.

 

[DNjet]

The optimization process is just down right horrible , I have waited 6 weeks now with no response from yahoo with my domains landing on general pages with almost no clicks, the problems they had recently with the servers and switching to a new server provider is really not all that uncommon for a startup but it didn't help their situation any. Lets believe it can only get better from here.

 

[cyphix]

Yeah.... same here; still waiting for optmization approvals from yahho after like 6 weeks. Sucks! :-(

 

[DomainEngineer]

I think GK domains had excellent SEO pages that made the traffic and income go up quickly for most people. There SEO techniques were excellent.

But then somehow all the GK parked domains got dropped from the top of the SEs's directories and the traffic/income dropped 95%.

Can they recover to their previous levels? Not impossible but unlikely.....only time will tell.

Just my opinion but I may be wrong.

Thanks.

 

[mole]

But then somehow all the GK parked domains got dropped from the top of the SEs's directories and the traffic/income dropped 95%.

Strange why the SEs would want to index parked pages in the first place. It's just a matter of time.

 

[tekz999]

This happens to me also. My revenue dropped horrendously. I am planning a switch.

 

[StockDoctor]

Goldkey said they do NOT want to be an SEO company.

Here I thought that SEO was the big draw to them in the first place. Other than that, they were a poor copy of the existing ppc services looking for the easy type-in traffic.

I'm pulling the test group out of there now.

 

[fab]

I just started testing them So far, I have had all the problems seen here.

 

[nitronet]

I just started testing them So far, I have had all the problems seen here.

Another one bites the dust.

 

[Dimva]

Using them as well, and its going real bad!! Sedo is far better for my domains..

 

[actnow]

And, what do you think GoldKey and Yahoo needs to do to turn around the situation?

Do you think the SEO will come back?

Do you think the keywords on the landing page was a problem?

Did the landing headers, sister pages and self optimization add value to your
experiences with Goldkey?

I would like for them to succeed. But, I'm curious to hear others opinion of the
situation.

And, if they are staying with GK.
Or, moving part or all of their domains elsewhere.

 

[JEsports]

Honestly ... The domains (when performing greatly) were no more optimized than they are now (before the never ending wait of manual optimization). This too me brings up something fishy with them. I see a trend here, and the trend is that all new customers make great income for about a month. After that first month, it hits rock bottom lows. I pulled out last week personally, but some of my referrers are still k*cking ass (it is there first trial month as well). Something is going on.

 

[SigRent.com]

I had my names there for a week and then i moved didnt like the service and the stats where abit difficult to follow and keep track of.

My poker typo's started at around $1.10 and fell to a measly $0.15 cents a click quite a slide i thought.

 

[dodo1]

I had some domains parked at GoldKey for about six weeks to test their service.
My revenue dropped by an average of 50 to 75% so I took the domains to another
parking provider again. Anyway, I try to develop all of my traffic domains.

 

[fab]

I added a few domains, pointed them, however, they never worked. I ended up moving them to Sedo.