Fed up with parking

[disruptive]

I was fed up with parking services, so I built my own in couple of spare hours. Its really very very simple. Things is, I wanted to spend more of the pages devoted to try and sell the domains rather than the paltry adsense revenue.

Have a look at say kaffe.co.uk for example.

 

[Lovekraft]

The only issue i can see is that at first glance it actually looks like a developed domain that is in use which may lead casual visitors to believe the domain is therefore not for sale. Yes there is a "Own Kaffe.co.uk" link but it didn't jump out at me straight away.

 

[ian]

The only issue i can see is that at first glance it actually looks like a developed domain that is in use which may lead casual visitors to believe the domain is therefore not for sale. Yes there is a "Own Kaffe.co.uk" link but it didn't jump out at me straight away.

I'd agree with that, looks like a corporate website holding page rather than a 'domain for sale' page.

 

[DomainM]

The ad within the AdSense box text shows;

"One.com Web Hosting - 1 Year Free Web Hosting with Domain Only £10.80 Setup - Try It Now!"

Which is a bit confusing. For second I thought you were selling one.com

 

[accelerator]

I'm getting an Internal Server Error message at the moment.

 

[Edwin]

Funny - I saw the thread title and noticed it was in the "General Board" and I automatically assumed this was going to be about somebody parking inconsiderately e.g. in a disabled spot or on a double yellow!

 

[scottmccloud]

I might be wrong but I thought that putting Adsense on your own parking pages was a bit of a no-no in the eyes of Google?

 

[disruptive]

I think there are always going to be different styles.

One big question is the effectiveness of:

A) an email address
vs
B) a contact form.

Without any data it is hard to say which is 'better'.

 

[Skinner]

I have found with an email address you can often snoop out who is sending you the email, as forms con't contain alot of tracable data.

I have also found forms get a better result in general as you can decide what data you wnt from them. So you can include Phone, Offer, Email, with a few lines of PHP you can add minimum offers on names , an email can't do this.

So I use forms myself, but you can glean more from an email.

 

[disruptive]

Just to add something to followup email debate. I use YesWare which some of you might have heard of, which enables you to track opening, location etc, etc.. I think you keep your usage within limits, it actually free. Was very interesting when talking to people on a very anonymous email address and their location happens to be Mountain View Google Campus!