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Not sure what was I thinking when I thought GoDaddy could probably be worth a try with their Cash Parking program. There was no problem during the first 8 days. The next day I found that revenue of mid $xxx and many domains were missing from my Cash Parking management interface with zero notice. I have to contact support which in turn told me to email [email protected] directly as it is not under their department. The following is the canned response I receive:
"Dear Sir/Madam,
During a recent review of the traffic to domains in your Cash Parking account, there were some domains that were found to be associated with activities that cause Google to stop all pending and future Cash Parking Revenues for the affected domains. As a result, the affected domains have been or are being moved out of your Cash Parking account. This means that since GoDaddy will not be receiving revenue for the traffic to these domains, there will be no payments made to you for the same domains.
In order to prevent this problem from spreading to any more of your domains, please be aware of a few things. If problems persist and/or spread to your other domains, the entire Cash Parking account may be subject to cancellation.
These determinations are not made based on the amount of traffic that comes to your domains. The amount of impressions to your domain(s) is not a determining factor by GoDaddy or Google.
It is not permitted for you to routinely click on your own links in the Cash Parking system.
GoDaddy Cash Parking is designed to share the revenue generated on domains based on the following types of traffic only.
1. Accidental Traffic. This is traffic representing mistypes, etc.
2. Residual Traffic. This is for domains previously associated with an actual site, or that have undergone a change of ownership.
GoDaddy Cash Parking does not allow the intentional generation of traffic to your domains. This includes advertising, etc. Our Abuse department can clarify this with you if you need further information. (Please refer to our Cash Parking Service Agreement at (http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?pageid=Cash_Park_SA for more information)
The most common problem leading to a determination such as this is the Click Through Rate (CTR), or the percentage of clicks vs. total impressions to your domain. This is a fairly accurate way to determine if the behavior of the impressions to your domain is consistent with what Google would determine as ânatural behaviorâ. We find that natural human traffic will result in Click Through Rates (CTR) of no more than 40% on sites with more than 1 or 2 visitors. CTRâs significantly or consistently higher than that are usually indicative of incentivised clicks, click groups, or software programs designed to simulate click traffic."
This is the first time I am so shocked and pissed with any parking program. What a load of BS. I have been parking with other parking companies that also have the Google feed such as NameDrive, Sedo for a few years. This is the first time in my years of parking that I am accused of clicking of my own links. I have no need to earn that extra cents as the domains can easily earn $x,xxx at any parking company with the type-in traffic.
ALL of my domains are type-ins except maybe some traffic from search engines such as Google, which I have no control of. Be careful if you are parking with GoDaddy Cash Parking and have a CTR of more than 40% on your domains. Because according to GoDaddy's findings, it is simply impossible that you can have CTR higher than that. GoDaddy can take away your revenue at anytime.
"Dear Sir/Madam,
During a recent review of the traffic to domains in your Cash Parking account, there were some domains that were found to be associated with activities that cause Google to stop all pending and future Cash Parking Revenues for the affected domains. As a result, the affected domains have been or are being moved out of your Cash Parking account. This means that since GoDaddy will not be receiving revenue for the traffic to these domains, there will be no payments made to you for the same domains.
In order to prevent this problem from spreading to any more of your domains, please be aware of a few things. If problems persist and/or spread to your other domains, the entire Cash Parking account may be subject to cancellation.
These determinations are not made based on the amount of traffic that comes to your domains. The amount of impressions to your domain(s) is not a determining factor by GoDaddy or Google.
It is not permitted for you to routinely click on your own links in the Cash Parking system.
GoDaddy Cash Parking is designed to share the revenue generated on domains based on the following types of traffic only.
1. Accidental Traffic. This is traffic representing mistypes, etc.
2. Residual Traffic. This is for domains previously associated with an actual site, or that have undergone a change of ownership.
GoDaddy Cash Parking does not allow the intentional generation of traffic to your domains. This includes advertising, etc. Our Abuse department can clarify this with you if you need further information. (Please refer to our Cash Parking Service Agreement at (http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?pageid=Cash_Park_SA for more information)
The most common problem leading to a determination such as this is the Click Through Rate (CTR), or the percentage of clicks vs. total impressions to your domain. This is a fairly accurate way to determine if the behavior of the impressions to your domain is consistent with what Google would determine as ânatural behaviorâ. We find that natural human traffic will result in Click Through Rates (CTR) of no more than 40% on sites with more than 1 or 2 visitors. CTRâs significantly or consistently higher than that are usually indicative of incentivised clicks, click groups, or software programs designed to simulate click traffic."
This is the first time I am so shocked and pissed with any parking program. What a load of BS. I have been parking with other parking companies that also have the Google feed such as NameDrive, Sedo for a few years. This is the first time in my years of parking that I am accused of clicking of my own links. I have no need to earn that extra cents as the domains can easily earn $x,xxx at any parking company with the type-in traffic.
ALL of my domains are type-ins except maybe some traffic from search engines such as Google, which I have no control of. Be careful if you are parking with GoDaddy Cash Parking and have a CTR of more than 40% on your domains. Because according to GoDaddy's findings, it is simply impossible that you can have CTR higher than that. GoDaddy can take away your revenue at anytime.
