iMODO - Good for you?

[eetc]

I have to admit I am underwhelmed by iMODO:

Domains on iMODO December 48,279 views £1.80 earned
Domains on NameDrive December 2,845 views £64.80 earned

Domains on iMODO January (so far) 10,230 views £1.14 earned
Domains on NameDrive January (so far) 966 views £23.08 earned​

Ok, I know it is not that clean cut but the number of views at iMODO is an order of magnitude greater than namedrive and the revenue is poor.

What have your experiences been? detail or just good/bad/fair...

eetc

p.s. I appreciate we are talking small figures here but it all helps pay those renewals while we wait for sales...

 

[redbird]

I'm only talking small figures as well but seen the same sort of results. So much so that have moved all my domains away from Imodo.

However I haven't given up totally as I think the concept is great and has lots of potential, but at the end of the day it is earnings that count. Can't really see why earnings were so much lower so hoping it is an imodo bug that can be fixed.

I plan on leaving it alone for a month or two and try again then.

 

[retired_member6]

Stats would read better if you added clicks to the equation.

 

[badger]

Hey fellas.. And thanks for the IM mystery thread notifier..

We have an issue with reporting unique visitors, which im sorry for. This will be fixed shortly.

Were still learning at iMODO and weve found people have been mostly successful finding the right lander for their domains by trial and error. And whilst we believe in this "built" concept for undeveloped domains, still our best performing lander is our "london" straight parking template which we have thus far restricted access to.. If you'd like to try this, please PM or email me ian at 1plus.net and i'll gladly give you access to our beta templates. If you want us to do any optimizing for you, please also do likewise

There is a massive upgrade on schedule for early Feb...

 

[retired_member6]

i just looked at imodo, there's too much to read, why click an ad? and they're external links to news, their team would be better off writing news and articles, keeping users on the site then clicking ads. the model will fail otherwise, thats just from looking for ten minutes, maybe i'm missing something.

 

[badger]

Thats just one choice Lee

See www.londonzilla.co.uk ; or http://mobilephonz.co.uk/ and spin through the navigational bar at the top. These are all lander options.. Like i say, what works for one domain may not work for another..

with regards indexing, http://tinyurl.com/2593xg

And like i say, weve been learning a lot over the past 6 months and the feb upgrade should iron out all minor issues weve had and also add a bunch of new templates, amendments, feeds etc ...

Its not perfect right now, a little rough around the edges but were trying our best..

 

[Johnp]

Hi

I have put a lot of names across at Imodo - quite a few are ex-whypark names that were previously on Adsense. I have also put a few traffic names with these guys as well.

I think for domains with natural type-in or backlink traffic a traditional parking page is probably best - Imodo's London template fits that bill. What you are then really doing is comparing rev. Yahoo versus a Google feed (from the likes of Sedo or ND).

Where a domain has limited or no natural type-in traffic then using the 'news' or 'break room' templates gets your name indexed through the syndicated articles. But it takes time - to be fair to Imodo can it can take a couple of months. Also domains relying on search engine traffic I have always found get a low CTR.

I think the stats have confused everyone - me included - from a rev perspective I am seeing rev on names that had no traffic on traditional parking & some names with type-in traffic that are doing OK a couple of others it is marginal or not quite as good as at ND.

If you compare simpy views, RPMs and clicks then I think you may be missing something.


Best Regards


JohnP

 

[redbird]

The shopping page has products in $'s and as most of us on here only deal in co.uk's so there isn't much chance of a click when a UK visitor sees a $ sign.

Should/Will products be UK feeds sometime soon?

Dave

 

[badger]

The shopping page has products in $'s and as most of us on here only deal in co.uk's so there isn't much chance of a click when a UK visitor sees a $ sign.

Should/Will products be UK feeds sometime soon?

Dave

Hi Dave,

2 new shopping templates will arrive as part of the Feb upgrade. All in contextual currencies and with everything on the page a "paid" link.

 

[redbird]

Fair enough, I'll be back in Feb

 

[eetc]

Stats would read better if you added clicks to the equation.

Lee, I didnt want to do an in depth analysis of CTR etc., I was simply looking at the fact that I had way more traffic but way less revenue.

Hey fellas.. And thanks for the IM mystery thread notifier..

Thanks for contributing to the thread badger. I do appreciate it is early days thus I didn't simply remove the domains I have moved in.

Interesting responses all, thanks. I'll wait until Feb for the update.

eetc

 

[TinkyWinky]

Are IMODO still underwhelming everyone?

It's now Feb so wondered whether anyone has seen any changes / CTR improvement etc.

Cheers
TW

 

[eetc]

Still only whelmed but waiting for the update.

eetc

 

[Johnp]

Imodo - Getting There

Hi All

My view is that if you have names with little traffic, then IMODO is great place to put them. Non of the Adsense silly rules / risk of getting your account banned etc.

For traffic names - try them out - although elswhere might be better, it depends on the relative payouts from Yahoo that IMODO use and Google that most other use. If the name looked good when you regged it, from an SEO point of view then with non of the costs of developing the name you will get it indexed, probably covering 2/3 times over the renewal fees.

Until they implement Google Analytics which is on their roadmap, it is difficult to tell which clicks come from the site being indexed or from direct type-ins.

I will still be adding names to IMODO, most of my high traffic names for now are elsewhere, but I will be adding a few more to see how things go.

Overall - not dissapointed ! and worth watching if not already trying them out.


Best Regards



JohnP

 

[badger]

Hey Guys,

Just thought id pop my head in and give a quick update.

First up sorry updates promised have been slow in materialising. Our difficulty stems from showing up on the Yahoo radar (i guess because of our growth - which is probably a good thing) and them showing some interest in what were about, up to, our templates, security, reasoning yadda yadda.

So this has distracted us a little from where we wanted to be. The good news is that they have been instrumental in shaping our platform to ensure a higher CTR and PPC. So, were busy finishing off some general template changes and finishing off our "blank canvas" project and our new shopping templates. All of which are going through the approval and integrity loops right now.

In response to traffic names and non-traffic names, please do try us out on both. As a domainer first and foremost myself, I can promise you that my own domains (both traffic and non-traffic) have never performed any better than they do now on iMODO.com. Proof is in the pudding however so i'll say no more than that and of course i would say that (i hear you say)

For anyone unaware, It's important to note that we dont have an automated sign up for either our premium platform or in turn our "special access" templates. If anyone here would like to try out either, please PM me with your iMODO user email and i'll hook you up.

Ian

 

[TinkyWinky]

Hey Guys,

Just thought id pop my head in and give a quick update.

First up sorry updates promised have been slow in materialising. Our difficulty stems from showing up on the Yahoo radar (i guess because of our growth - which is probably a good thing) and them showing some interest in what were about, up to, our templates, security, reasoning yadda yadda.

So this has distracted us a little from where we wanted to be. The good news is that they have been instrumental in shaping our platform to ensure a higher CTR and PPC. So, were busy finishing off some general template changes and finishing off our "blank canvas" project and our new shopping templates. All of which are going through the approval and integrity loops right now.

In response to traffic names and non-traffic names, please do try us out on both. As a domainer first and foremost myself, I can promise you that my own domains (both traffic and non-traffic) have never performed any better than they do now on iMODO.com. Proof is in the pudding however so i'll say no more than that and of course i would say that (i hear you say)

For anyone unaware, It's important to note that we dont have an automated sign up for either our premium platform or in turn our "special access" templates. If anyone here would like to try out either, please PM me with your iMODO user email and i'll hook you up.

Ian

Hi Ian

You have some examples of your sites that are performing?

I might be willing to give some a go... provided simple and quick to implement...

Cheers
TW

 

[badger]

Hi Ian

You have some examples of your sites that are performing?

I might be willing to give some a go... provided simple and quick to implement...

Cheers
TW

Sure, i guess our strongest parking template is our "london" lander

Ironically, our "old" shopping template performs well, despite the content on the page (excluding the ads) are non-paying content .. (new fully paid, cleaner template on the way).. As someone else mentioned, the content landers (like shopping e.g.) are currently being indexed ok with Google but were certainly aware of changes in the indexing space currently and are working towards a solution. Our blank canvas will help with the natural traffic.

Anyway, if you fancy giving us a bash, let me know.

 

[badger]

Hey guys,

Were about to start adding some extra templates to our premium platform... beginning with a few minor changes to our shopping template..

So, some constructive criticism would be appreciated. Check out

www.mobilephonz.co.uk and let me know what you think..

Ta,
Ian

 

[Aotearoa]

Hi Badger,

While the extra templates are interesting, I'd much rather see you concentrate your development resource on some of the other aspects of iModo.

For example, your stats show corporatementoring (co uk), one of my domains , as having had 6,920 unique visitors, and zero revenue so far this month. Most of my other .co.uk domains are in a similar state: business-and-careers had 4,546 uniques and foreigntravellers 2,226 all for no revenue. I acknowledge your comment in January about how your unique counting needs fixing, but it's two months later now, so I can only assume that this is fixed.

In any case, a simple count of visitors isn't very useful to me. I really need to know where these visitors are from, what brings them to my site, what pages they visit, etc. This is exactly the kind of information that Google Analytics would give me.

Rather than using your scarce resources providing a full featured tracking and analysis facility, please just give me a field I can plug a Google Analytics code into and have them do all the heavy lifting. All you'd need to do is have one extra field in your domains table, an input field, and your templates splicing this into the generated page. Probably no more than 3 hours work for an experienced php developer & your testing department.

Hopefully Analytics could then show me what I need to do to improve things .. change the default landing page, the keyword, ...

There's a few other things you could do to make life easier for domain owners, but this one is so cheap to implement and gives so much bang for the effort I'd really like to see it done first.

 

[Admin]

Hi Badger,

While the extra templates are interesting, I'd much rather see you concentrate your development resource on some of the other aspects of iModo.

For example, your stats show corporatementoring (co uk), one of my domains , as having had 6,920 unique visitors, and zero revenue so far this month. Most of my other .co.uk domains are in a similar state: business-and-careers had 4,546 uniques and foreigntravellers 2,226 all for no revenue. I acknowledge your comment in January about how your unique counting needs fixing, but it's two months later now, so I can only assume that this is fixed.

In any case, a simple count of visitors isn't very useful to me. I really need to know where these visitors are from, what brings them to my site, what pages they visit, etc. This is exactly the kind of information that Google Analytics would give me.

Rather than using your scarce resources providing a full featured tracking and analysis facility, please just give me a field I can plug a Google Analytics code into and have them do all the heavy lifting. All you'd need to do is have one extra field in your domains table, an input field, and your templates splicing this into the generated page. Probably no more than 3 hours work for an experienced php developer & your testing department.

Hopefully Analytics could then show me what I need to do to improve things .. change the default landing page, the keyword, ...

There's a few other things you could do to make life easier for domain owners, but this one is so cheap to implement and gives so much bang for the effort I'd really like to see it done first.

That's great feedback Aotearoa, I agree with everything you said and my domains have similar results, lots of views shown, zero revenue.

Admin