I got a tip on this site over a year ago and your blog…Thanks in posting customwheels.com and i loved what they had done…from the traffic chart, it looked like it did 15k levels..

now the site is parked, traffic surly eased up…i dont like the estimated traffic companies nor do i really go by them but its an indication somewhat..

i wonder what happened? did there google adsense get banned? did google not like the way it was designed and the wrap around? a lot of unknowns in this and why its parked…or did they dump the type in name and sell the traffic and a domainer got the hold of it and parked it..

was just wondering on this, if you had heard anything?? i spent 5 minutes on google trying find some answers and couldnt find anything..

i loved the site and format of it but I am now confused and was going to show this to a web guy and do a private mini development…

thanks sahar!

cheers,

j

Great site indeed but Adsense ads are blocked by anti-ad tools like Adblock in Firefox. Regular parking links always appear though…

http://www.workhappy.net/2006/06/interview_with_.html

i sent that since it shows the link to his adsense shot… now if you goto http://www.compete.com and run his site for what he’s getting daily traffic wise —- wow… he should be doing double what these checks were for since his traffic has increased quite a bit since last year when this shot was taken of the adsense check… $500k a month isn’t chump change by any stretch - not for workign 2 hours a day and being a solo co….

l8r/enjoy - Z.

Long time no chat

We recently experimented in turning a smartname parked page into a “fully” developed Adsense website, http://www.truckrental.com - CTR has gone down from around 100% to 42%, and revenue per click is down from $0.70 to $0.20.

The upside is the search engine traffic - but even though we are top 5 at msn for “truck rental” and other related searches, it still isn’t bringing in enough bacon to make up for the reduced clickthroughs and PPC rate.

Moral of the story is: parking pages can convert very well, both in terms of CTR and income per click. If you intend to develop a real site instead, you’d better know what you are doing inside out, otherwise a loss is on the cards.

Cheers,

—-ANSWER—-

Ah long time indeed
Thanks for the added info..good to see you’re still around and kicking.
Sahar

For everything else, development is very attractive. Sure, CTR will go down with more content on the page to distract the user from the ads, but I’d rather have 5% CTR on 5,000 uniques a day than 30% CTR on 100. A well developed page like customwheels.com is going to get word of mouth referrals, people booking marking it on places like delicious and stumbledupon and may even attract some direct advertising deals. None of this is going to happen for a parked page. How many people bookmark parking pages? How many return to the same page?

I don’t know about you guys, but spending hours a day scanning drop lists is a less attractive proposition with every week that passes - drop quality gets lower while bid prices go higher. It’s hard to stop and just accept that the domains you own today are all you’re going to own other than the occasional opportunity that comes your way via forums/direct contact to owners of specific domains and a hand-reg here and there, but I mentally get a little closer to that every day….