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namestrands

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Spoken Like a true Politician..

What you call Miscalculation I call Anti-Competitive Marketing, try and move our attention with new landing pages while you basically screw us when our backs are turned. SEDO Will be its own undoing.
 

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SedoCoUk said:
I understand this was jolt to you Namestrands but the fact is we had to bring our ppc in line with reality and our miscalculation has only put more revenue in the hands of those affected.
Hi Jay.

I finally got sick of abysmal returns from SEDO parking, and
moved a few hundred to Afternic (yes, that other sale site).
Afternic offers parking options and I chose Fabulous.

For the record, I'm getting approx. twice the Sedo-earnings BEFORE
the latest Sedo-screwing.

Hear any warning bells Jay ?
 

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I was wondering the PPC started to be quite high for non-english traffic some weeks ago. Unfortunately, we know now it was a sort of miscalculation. Errare humanum est... In fact Sedo is one of just a few PPC programs suitable for non-trendy traffic as well - truth but even I appreciate Sedo options and quality of some kind (keywords opt., nice panel, timely payment, etc) I am forced to move a bunch of my traffic domains to Sedo's competitors (at least one of them pays good for non-english traffic what I've already verified (even if CTR is lower!). Anyway will be monitoring whats going on with Sedo PPC (hoping to be back with my portfolio which I plan to triple in coming months)
GL, hookah
 

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They have a problem for 2 months and nobody notices it? How the hell can you trust a parking company that has a problem for 2 whole months, I think they put the PPC up while NameDrive was launching to keep everyone there, Now that Namedrive is old they have lowered the PPC, And blame a mistake which probably never happebed. Sedo are dirty players in the parking game and (imo) domains should be removed from there if you know whats good for them and your income.

PS. I love reading NameStrands rants on Sedo, Very Interesting and more than likely...True :)
 

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Paul that is exactly my point.. and now that a whole day has passed for SEDO Germany.. Still no announcement about this has been made. I find this all very bizarre, however I guess not suprising.

Perhaps its time for SEDO's payouts to get Audited by a third party, something that Online Casinos having being doing for many years..

I think this is fair to the community and will enable transparency to the end users. We need regulation in this industry, or at the very least a code of practice with a public record of percentages of payouts...
 

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My top earning domains (for me) with european traffic went from 0.27 euro CPC average to 0.03 this days on Sedo. Note that this domains are high quality pure TYPOS. Ok, i want to believe that they paid more than the market in previous months.
Then i moved this domains to NameDrive and I'm getting $0.40 per click, much more than Sedo during the "rich" period.

Now, maybe NameDrive is paying too much, or maybe it is paying the fair CPC we hardly worked for. I just wonder that they pay.

NameDrive, will you keep paying for European traffic?

:)
 

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4 months ago I was earning about $20 a day through sedo. The first 10 days of this this month, $35 a day, and the last 3 days, $3-$4. This is not acceptable for 150 clicks a day, thats 2 cents a click, not to mention the high cpc keyword names I have listed. Sedo, please post a followup as to if, when, and how these stats will be picking up to at least where they were 3 or 4 months ago.
 

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4 months ago I was earning about $20 a day through sedo. The first 10 days of this this month, $35 a day, and the last 3 days, $3-$4. This is not acceptable for 150 clicks a day, thats 2 cents a click, not to mention the high cpc keyword names I have listed. Sedo, please post a followup as to if, when, and how these stats will be picking up to at least where they were 3 or 4 months ago.

if your traffic is not coming from the US , Canada or UK then you get 2 or 3 cents a click now , thats whats happening now and I don't think there are any plans to change it.
 

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if your traffic is not coming from the US , Canada or UK then you get 2 or 3 cents a click now , thats whats happening now and I don't think there are any plans to change it.
I believe some of the US traffic was getting 3 cents per click. What I dont understand is how I can go from making $20 a day before the problem to $4 a day after the problem was fixed.
 

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Its not suprising that people are pulling out. SEDO are consistent in a world of inconsistency. Everyday is almost the same hits same clicks and same revenue, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

I have said it before.. SEDO needs to get in PriceWaterHouseCooper and get those Stats Audited, we need transparency. GOOGLE T&C state that third parties can not release the Cost Per Click.. However as we are requesting the Percentage of Payout and statistics and this is what should be audited.

I am about to draft a letter to Google and the German/UK Trading Standards. I have had enough of this BS now its time for action.

To prove my point I urge you all to test for yourself, if you use your own servers then you can try this.. You will be shocked at the results.

PHP:
<?php 
 
 srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
 $randomnumber = rand(0,2);
 
 $include0 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.sedoparking.com/domainname.com \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 $include1 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.ndparking.com/domainname.com \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 $include2 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.parkingsite.com/cs/yourdomainname.com/index.php \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 if	 ($randomnumber== "0") { 
 
 	echo "$include0"; 
 
 		} else if ($randomnumber== "1") { 
 
 	echo "$include1"; 
 	 
 		} else if ($randomnumber== "2") { 
 
 	echo "$include2"; 
 
 	} 
 
 ?>
 

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a lot have no choice. why make $4 a day with sedo when you can make $50 a day with a better sponsor. I had no problem with sedo before but this is a big problem.

namestrands said:
Its not suprising that people are pulling out. SEDO are consistent in a world of inconsistency. Everyday is almost the same hits same clicks and same revenue, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

I have said it before.. SEDO needs to get in PriceWaterHouseCooper and get those Stats Audited, we need transparency. GOOGLE T&C state that third parties can not release the Cost Per Click.. However as we are requesting the Percentage of Payout and statistics and this is what should be audited.

I am about to draft a letter to Google and the German/UK Trading Standards. I have had enough of this BS now its time for action.

To prove my point I urge you all to test for yourself, if you use your own servers then you can try this.. You will be shocked at the results.

PHP:
<?php 
 
 srand((double)microtime()*1000000); 
 $randomnumber = rand(0,2);
 
 $include0 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.sedoparking.com/domainname.com \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 $include1 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.ndparking.com/domainname.com \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 $include2 = "<html>
 <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; URL=http://www.parkingsite.com/cs/yourdomainname.com/index.php \">
 </head>
 <body>
 </html>";
 
 if	 ($randomnumber== "0") { 
 
 	echo "$include0"; 
 
 		} else if ($randomnumber== "1") { 
 
 	echo "$include1"; 
 	 
 		} else if ($randomnumber== "2") { 
 
 	echo "$include2"; 
 
 	} 
 
 ?>
will that script keep resetting the random query (random 1, random 2, random 1, random 3, random 1, random 3, random 1, random 2) or will it go in a cycle, (random 1, random 3, random 2, random 3, random 1, random 2, etc. )
 

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Its just does it random.. but over a month you get a good picture of CPM for each program.. as each day is different in terms of CPC it would be impossible to have the same domain at the another Program..

This is as about as accurate as it gets for now.
 

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ok well if this issue isnt resolved soon, i will be trying alternatives as soon as i have a free day to set up all my domains on my server
 

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Parking service testing #2 has begun. Going to try namedrive for a few days first. Any other new programs out there that promise good ppc results?
 

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Doesn't using a URL redirect instead of DNS damage existing SE rankings?
 

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This truly does suck, I saw a 30% drop in my portfolio which is considerable, if nothing is done soon I will be trying out other services.

How can they not know for 2 months, that’s just silly and suddenly dropping the ppc like that is very unprofessional. I always thought of sedo as one of the best most professional out there and trusted them, with this I think that trust has been broken.

They did not even mention it on their site, and I emailed my account rep 4-5 days ago and she still not got back to me about this, normally they respond within 48hrs.

I hope they fix this, otherwise they are going to be losing out on a lot of business. Very unprofessional, disappointed.
 

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This of course could be one of SEDOs Marketing Tactic.. (I do give them too much credit at times)

Let the Domain Industry feel the pinch of low revenue and then introduce SEDOPro.. promises of great new landing pages, New Tools and New Statistics and of Course Great Revenue. Just sign your name here on this piece of paper..

You are contracted for a year and you have to pay a penalty of $100,000 if you move a domain to another program, Sounds Crazy huh.. well the truth is thats what they have just attempted to do with me and Several Other UK domainers.

So be careful of anyone bearing promises of untold riches.
 

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I am not signing anything!
 
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