Comments on: Say Goodbye to PPC Parking – Why Things Will Only Get WORSE

By: Carlos Martins Santos

Carlos Martins Santos — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:52:08 +0000

Yes, i totally agree. There is so much work to do with another ways as explained on the article above.
For us it was a week when we pay more than we receive mainly to bring traffic to the web site, gain more visibility on search enginmes, facebook, twitter and so on.
Thanks and regards

By: friendship gift

friendship gift — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:45:23 +0000

I have received a parking fine from a private company and have decided to ignore the notice stuck to my windscreen following all the advice that is available on-line.

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By: domainshouse

domainshouse — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:18:54 +0000

thank you. very interesting article. I think parked.com it seems concerned and caring about this problem as i can see some improvement on the traffic they have (example the keywords they use). at least for now because i ignored how they worked before. Sedo is one of the worst parking web sites in that matter, sorry to say because i am in there yet (listing domains for sales). Just to give you an example (if not offend anyone), one of my domains is jetbrasil.net that is related with jet, aviation, flights, travels, etc. but Sedo also include in the keywords and related links very hardcore adult terms (sorry to not mention some examples of that). Result: my domain got in days more than 400 visits and only 6 clicks. Guess why!

Thank you.
Carlos Martins
DomainsHouse

By: Andrei

Andrei — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:32:00 +0000

@Peter: there are two angles worth analyzing. On the one hand, you have lots of people who commit click fraud on a small scale but on the other hand (and here’s where things get complicated), you have a handful of individuals who are spending lots of money in order to fly under the radar. In my opinion, it’s easier to deal with small timers because they often make foolish mistakes. But when someone has tens of thousands of seemingly legit domains and knows what he/she is doing, measures such as the ones you’re referring to are unfortunately just not enough.

And you’re right, traffic which comes from the countries you’ve mentioned won’t get you a lot of money per click. But here’s the thing: even if someone’s not from the US, there’s no stopping him/her from creating click bots which use US proxies.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:01:38 +0000

Interesting article, but in reality, how much click fraud is actually committed? Most click fraud comes from specific countries, such as India/China, and the clicks are already low or worthless.

I believe parking providers do a good job in combating click fraud with individual TQ scores and whatnot to see how good of a conversion your traffic is according to Yahoo/Google.

Regards,
Peter

By: Andrei

Andrei — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:16:07 +0000

@Henry: sure, it’s tempting to believe that PPC is legit because it’s next to impossible to shave clicks without getting caught (since it’s easy to track them yourself and call companies out if they try something like that) but that’s unfortunately just not true. If they want to pay you 40% less, they’ll find a way to pay you 40% less: if not by removing clicks from their system (since, again, it’s so easy to get caught that it would be stupid on their part to try something like that), then by messing with the amount of money you get paid for each click and at the end of the day, it’s the same thing

You can only be 100% certain that nobody is screwing you over if you monetize via your own product(s) or through direct ad sales, which is what I try to do whenever it makes sense.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:54:00 +0000

One thing that no one is talking about is the fraud that happens in CPS. How do you keep track of a sale from the advertisers side? There are as many bad advertisers as there is ppc fraud. Some advertisers will report some of there sales as chargebacks when there was a real sale. And some will find a way to clear a sale out of there system all together. This is why CPS has not happen in a big way.

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