parketeer.com?

[domaingenius]

The Parketeer site itself is built as a walkthrough on the system and contains many pages about each area of your admin. We will be rewriting the admin page to include mouseover popups that help to explain what each form field is looking for.

In short, anything you add to the "My Account" page covers you on all domains and each domain has an override for your default setting. This goes for your adsense ID or for links out (if you wish).

on the "My Account" page, enter your Google pub- number...

Google shows this as
pub-6034449397262022
ca-6034449397262022
or
google_ad_client = "pub-6034449397262022";

depending on where you look for it over at the Google Adsense site www.google.com/adsense/

All we need entered is the numeric portion of this, or in the case above, 6034449397262022

This is the publisher ID that we look for and use when creating your pages.

Ah, OK that explains it thanks . So am I right in thinking that probably Parketeer would be best suited for the names that do not currently get much traffice because (a) they are not type in type names (b) have simply been parked and thus dont feature highly in search engines as yet ??.

I have a lot of domains that are good names, but are names that people will find in search engines more than finding from typing in urls directly.

DG

 

[MaxPowers]

Actually, we are built to be very spider friendly including sitemaps in several formats. We allow you to change any of the tags that are commonly used to tell search engines what your site is about.

We generate good pages but it is up to you, if you want something different, to make it your own. new title, new keywords, new description, H1 tags, and more.

Search friendly? Several domains on the system gained pagerank in the last update. the highest one was PR5. Does this mean the system generates PR? NO! It means that if a site is linked to often enough that it does have the ability to gain stats such as Alexa and Pagerank... not bad if you park to build domains for selling the name, provided you can gain enough links for PR.

 

[pendragon]

I presume parketeer profit 100% from the clickserve ads ?

 

[MaxPowers]

At this time, using them is optional and they can be turned off in your account admin. Revenue share is applied as credits evenly amongst all domains in the system. In their next evolution, they will be revenue share applied as system credits and divided amongst our users as user/day credits...

Let's say a user displays the ads for two weeks... they get 50% of the monthly share. Breaking it down to credits per user-day units is extreme geek speak for "very fair distribution". You are credited according to the time you display the right ads.

 

[pendragon]

Ok, I have 2 domains with Parketeer on trial. Both domains were previously with sedopro getting small but regular type-in traffic. CTR was in the 10% region.

My first impressions (remembering Parketeer is still developping)....

1. User interface has lots of options but in its current format, is not user friendly and appears over complicated.

2. The placing of adsense ads could be better. The amount of articles dominating the centre of the layout almost drown the adsense links to the side (which is what its all about).

3. Header could be improved.

4. Option to add google analytics would be good.

5. Getting the correct content to display is difficult. (Boxing, Boxer keywords results in removals and self storage ads, whereas sedo pulls in 95% boxing related links)

However, with the way standard parking returns are going, I do believe this could be the way to go. I will add a few more domains to Parketeer over the next few days and keep you all informed of progress.

 

[grantw]

Can you post one of your domains pendragon so I can take a peek please?

Thanks, Grant

 

[pendragon]

Can you post one of your domains pendragon so I can take a peek please?

Thanks, Grant

PM'd details

 

[static]

Ok, I have 2 domains with Parketeer on trial. Both domains were previously with sedopro getting small but regular type-in traffic. CTR was in the 10% region.

My first impressions (remembering Parketeer is still developping)....

1. User interface has lots of options but in its current format, is not user friendly and appears over complicated.

2. The placing of adsense ads could be better. The amount of articles dominating the centre of the layout almost drown the adsense links to the side (which is what its all about).

3. Header could be improved.

4. Option to add google analytics would be good.

5. Getting the correct content to display is difficult. (Boxing, Boxer keywords results in removals and self storage ads, whereas sedo pulls in 95% boxing related links)

However, with the way standard parking returns are going, I do believe this could be the way to go. I will add a few more domains to Parketeer over the next few days and keep you all informed of progress.

Good man.

This is the way to go. Normal ppc parking just isn't an equitable relationship.

 

[retired_member9]

Actually, we are built to be very spider friendly including sitemaps in several formats.

Isn't it just a matter of time, before search engines start to ban Parketeer and totaly remove it's pages from indexes?

 

[static]

Isn't it just a matter of time, before search engines start to ban Parketeer and totaly remove it's pages from indexes?

...and it is just a matter of time before the Sun expands as a red giant and puts an end to all of this, but until then party on

Why would they ban? Essentially parketeer is just another website hosting company with some convenientish developer tools. Isn't 123 reg much the same? Adding AdSense isn't a cyber crime

 

[MaxPowers]

1. User interface has lots of options but in its current format, is not user friendly and appears over complicated.

2. The placing of adsense ads could be better. The amount of articles dominating the centre of the layout almost drown the adsense links to the side (which is what its all about).

3. Header could be improved.

4. Option to add google analytics would be good.

5. Getting the correct content to display is difficult. (Boxing, Boxer keywords results in removals and self storage ads, whereas sedo pulls in 95% boxing related links)

However, with the way standard parking returns are going, I do believe this could be the way to go. I will add a few more domains to Parketeer over the next few days and keep you all informed of progress.

1) User interface is going to be worked on shortly. There are a ton of 'tweak' options, but admittedly, they should lay out better.

2) Honestly, what would you do differently? The placement of ads is using "hot spots" on the page and this is somewhat similar to about.com and other adsense driven sites. Also, I am working on "your own content" which currently only accepts raw HTML, but it will give you the ability to play in the 'center' of the page. Nav, Header, basic design ought to remain for now.

3) We have plans to add many headers to the system. This will occur over time and you should start noticing them within the next two weeks as we bring in a designer to work on this aspect.

4) agreed. As this moves more toward a "content delivery site" this will be added in much the same way as AdSense and YPN is handled now...Just enter your ID

5) changing your "Keyword Target" will change the RSS. If you enter keywords that aren't in the system yet, it will revert to showing your "theme" feeds until our content grabber goes out within 12 hours. The content grabber will find feeds directly related to your specific keywords and from that point on, you'll have feeds directly related to your keywords. As time goes on, our keyword lists will expand. If the keyword does exist, you'll see related feeds instantly.

At first we had this grabbing feeds as you entered keywords, but it takes some time to grab a few hundred new feeds and process them for the system... this resulted in a very long time between when you clicked submit to modify domains and the next page that loaded. In order to prevent people from trying again or re-clicking and getting impatient, we setup the content grabber to run twice per day. This can be set to run more often

 

[MaxPowers]

Isn't it just a matter of time, before search engines start to ban Parketeer and totaly remove it's pages from indexes?

No.

Why would this happen? Of all the sites my partner and I have optimized over the years NONE have ever been banned. Do you have a particular reason to suspect that they should drop from ranking? They are little, honest-to-goodness websites.

Especially once the "make your own content" feature is in, we're more of a site builder type of system (with some really fast auto-generated content to get you started).

If you choose to keep the auto-generated content, that's on you... once we provide a means for you to enter your own content, we'll be considered as a hosting solution... a "content delivery system". No more issues with the AdSense TOS being applied to block individual users while corporate types like Sedo and GoDaddy get their feeds directly from Google (and you never see the actual clickrates or anything).

As a site-building system, we'll cater to those with many domain names that need to get them up and running quickly, then you'll have the time to come back and develop each site into something more...

 

[retired_member9]

They are little, honest-to-goodness websites.

=)

The only problem no search engines would like to have pages from those sites
in their natural SERPs.

Parked pages does not carry any useful info and used only to display ads.
MFA (Made for Adsense) sites are no exception.

Parked pages are legitimate and approved by feed providers. Search engines are able to recognize them and never index. MFA sites are not.
They made with intent to be indexed and this is where it crosses the line.

with some really fast auto-generated content

and thats, I'm afraid, clearly against Adsense TOS:

# No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed on any domain parking websites, pop-ups, pop-unders, or in any email.
# No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.

 

[domaingenius]

=)

The only problem no search engines would like to have pages from those sites
in their natural SERPs.

Parked pages does not carry any useful info and used only to display ads.
MFA (Made for Adsense) sites are no exception.

Parked pages are legitimate and approved by feed providers. Search engines are able to recognize them and never index. MFA sites are not.
They made with intent to be indexed and this is where it crosses the line.



and thats, I'm afraid, clearly against Adsense TOS:

If thats the case, how do NameDrive and Sedo get away with it, or am I missing something ?.

DG

 

[MaxPowers]

Also, that is why we strongly suggest that you use this as an easy way to publish your own useful content like any other content management system. We do not force the content on people by allowing them to enter their own content.

Most everything out there carrying ads was created for the sake of advertising. Google publishes their own Adsense optimization page talking about ways that you can modify your page for the sake of better performing ads.

Since these sites are capable of showing the owners own content, they are just like any other site trying to get themselves indexed in the search engines. These pages just have better control over SEO influencing tags than most sites out there.

Yes, the ads are placed on the pages, but so are many other factors. Adsense is not the main focus, although we did our best to place ads according to what Google says is best on their optimization page. We haven't tried to sabotage any aspect of this so we naturally wanted the adsense to be located in premium locations.

Some people buy domains for the purpose of monetizing them over the long haul, other buy domain names with the intent of selling them rapidly, others buy names to develop a site.

 

[pendragon]

for those that want to see a parketeer site, ive got www.xfactortickets.co.uk - X Factor Live there.

 

[static]

Thanks for that link. I agree that the choice and quality of headers needs to improve. Overall things look quite good. In time, assuming AdSense don't pull the plug (Vizzy), I think this channel will show promise for domainers.

I do think the 'parketeer' name is a burden to the company vis a vis AdSense Policy. I'm not taken by the '....teer' repetitions either - totally confusing. One umbrella brand name will do ;-)

 

[pendragon]

I'm not taken by the '....teer' repetitions either - totally confusing. One umbrella brand name will do ;-)

Totally agree

 

[static]

Can the 'Domain may be for Sale' link be removed from home pages? It tends to undermine the 'authority' of sites IMHO.

 

[MaxPowers]

Yes, whether your domain is for sale or not is already configurable on the "Modify Domain" page.