Comments on: Part 3: Are Parked Domain Names Just Another Exit? http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ron http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11236 Ron Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:24:36 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11236 As a suggestion. How about instead of pointing a website to a parked page pointing a domain name to a parked page. i.e. Hotel.com is parked with cashparking featuring applicable ads. I point BestHotels.com to the site and users that type BestHotels.com get the results of the Hotel.com site. Ron As a suggestion. How about instead of pointing a website to a parked page pointing a domain name to a parked page.

i.e.

Hotel.com is parked with cashparking featuring applicable ads. I point BestHotels.com to the site and users that type BestHotels.com get the results of the Hotel.com site.

Ron

]]> By: Cyber Monday Results | Elliot's Blog http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11211 Cyber Monday Results | Elliot's Blog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:23:17 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11211 [...] Index to track their Shopping category. Ironically enough, Reinvent owns BlackFriday.com, and as Sahar pointed out, Reinvent was cross-promoting many of their retail domain names with BlackFriday.com. If you [...] […] Index to track their Shopping category. Ironically enough, Reinvent owns BlackFriday.com, and as Sahar pointed out, Reinvent was cross-promoting many of their retail domain names with BlackFriday.com. If you […]

]]> By: Mike @ WannaDevelop.com http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11204 Mike @ WannaDevelop.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:38:20 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/11/29/part-3-are-parked-domain-names-just-another-exit/#comment-11204 Parked domains serve it's purpose and do so quiet well...and have for a while now.. The way visitors interpret them varies case by case and probably most do find them useful to a certain degree. They get it that what is presented to them is a directory or a very limited resource...of text links to third party sources... most often than not this outside sources they click on are spammy results or weird irrelevant offers that aren't even good offers... most of the time it should be on target but unfortunately it is not. But why aren't they clicking 100% of the time on the links? What is the real problem? Sometimes they do on certain domains and more than once.. Sometimes they don't and the CTR is really low to the point where it is depressing.. Trust is the single and biggest issue. Crappy designs and poor optimization.... that is so 2000. A poor design means crappy site, which translates to overall weakness and will drive people away. What Hitfarm did isn't really anything breakthrough and has been done before but I applaud them for trying something new and to further experiment and gather data. Next step is to build on-topic networks that will inter-connect more of their domains...with even more of their nice groups of domains which are strategically focused on very specific verticals. Parked domains serve it’s purpose and do so quiet well…and have for a while now.. The way visitors interpret them varies case by case and probably most do find them useful to a certain degree. They get it that what is presented to them is a directory or a very limited resource…of text links to third party sources… most often than not this outside sources they click on are spammy results or weird irrelevant offers that aren’t even good offers… most of the time it should be on target but unfortunately it is not. But why aren’t they clicking 100% of the time on the links? What is the real problem? Sometimes they do on certain domains and more than once.. Sometimes they don’t and the CTR is really low to the point where it is depressing.. Trust is the single and biggest issue. Crappy designs and poor optimization…. that is so 2000. A poor design means crappy site, which translates to overall weakness and will drive people away.

What Hitfarm did isn’t really anything breakthrough and has been done before but I applaud them for trying something new and to further experiment and gather data. Next step is to build on-topic networks that will inter-connect more of their domains…with even more of their nice groups of domains which are strategically focused on very specific verticals.

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