Log in, click a bit, get excited

[NameDriver]

I'm expecting this to be a quiet day today as several people are out punting, so welcome home, hope you had a great day.

Things are picking up pace. Working with a renewed viguour today because we are, before the Christmas rush, rolling out toys for you people. We've been keeping them in a cupboard since before launch but haven't had the tech time to get them out for you. Now we have 2 new tech guys and things are starting to happen. November is going to be a fun month.

Toy 1:

Log into your account, click "settings", click on a folder name, click on a domain with traffic so that you're optimising on a domain level. Scroll to the bottom...Voila. Ordered by how many views / clicks they're getting.

This is step one for Toy 1. There are a lot of things coming in the next couple of days. Until Toy 1 becomes Multi-Armed Beast 1. This is merely providing the info. What we do with it is coming soon.
For now. you can naturally optimise per region. Not sure if you can do that anywhere else, but maybe I don't snoop through other parking programs enough

Have fun.

Comments, complaints, requests, praise for our 48-hour-shift working tech team here

Ed

 

[ratboy]

I tried Namedrive and moved my portfolio over (what a chore) about a month back - up around 600% on revenue, and about 200% CTR. Not sure how that works but i'm all smiles. Sedo was dying slowly for some reason, then it went all German so I changed.

Highly recommended!!

 

[Brassneck]

Had a look - potentially very useful. Out of interest under user searches if the same search is made more than once is it recorded only once here? Frequency of the search term would make this very powerful.

Keep up the good work!

Stephen.

 

[NameDriver]

Wow - I've just realised what that little circle next to everyone's name means! Whether they're online or not! Smashing.

I suppose I'll be answering a lot of questions on this thread, so in future I'll store them up and then answer a few at a time (yeah right, Mr. Mouth).

As I said, this is, for now, merely presenting the information very basically, this will evolve rapidly and significantly in the next couple of days. We will be showing frequency, date of search, clicks and CTR on each term. The way they are currently displayed is using the 'NameDrive formula' of weighing up all of these things and deciding which searches should appear highest up.

From here, we will be going on to doing all those things that we wanted to do in August with Domain Reports. Fun fun fun. As I said, multi-armed beast.

Just post, email or PM any more questions about what's there already or what's to come.

Ed

 

[SF]

Very exciting Ed! - I am looking forward to my first pay out tomorrow

I might treat the girlfriend to a KFC

 

[ratboy]

Flash Git!!!!

I'm off out with the girlfriend (married, one kid) to the bypass truckers cafe for curry 'n' chips in my Cortina.

 

[retired member 1]

Just a quick suggestion:

Download stats as a CSV file

 

[namestrands]

I second that.. and I really want to see..

a monthly day by day view of Before Adjustment and after adjustment. That would be so interesting and useful.

 

[NameDriver]

Morning,

Just playing with the new CVS download in our secret laboratory. Should be up for you to enjoy by the end of the day. Sorry it's taken so long, I know it's long overdue.

Day by day portfolio stats, I know. They're coming. Anything else anyone would like to see? Actually, I don't know why I'm asking, we have a list that would keep us going for some time, but I always like to keep tech on the ball...

Ed

 

[retired member 1]

Morning,

Just playing with the new CVS download in our secret laboratory. Should be up for you to enjoy by the end of the day. Sorry it's taken so long, I know it's long overdue.

Day by day portfolio stats, I know. They're coming. Anything else anyone would like to see? Actually, I don't know why I'm asking, we have a list that would keep us going for some time, but I always like to keep tech on the ball...

Ed

Thanks Ed!

 

[retired_member27]

I've just used Namedrive for the first time today and to be honest I'm most disappointed with it, firstly it's probably one of the most confusing interfaces that I've ever used in my life, no matter what I do or set nothing seems to work properly, and secondly I've deleted a number of domains but when I add new names the deleted one are added again, very strange. I tried the FAQ but there's no information in there. Anyone else found the same?

 

[retired_member16]

Im yet to see another posting suggesting that its difficult to use. Sure, its not as quick or as easy as Sedo but its pretty user friendly as far as I can see.

Drop Ed a PM or an email, Im sure he will take a look at your account for you.

 

[NameDriver]

Hi apd,

If you email or PM me with any information about your problems, I think people will testify here that we'll get back to you as fast as possible. I've had a look in the back office and the only account that seems to tally with you currently has no domains in it. What problems are you experiencing, and as the firestars man says, I'll sort it out asap.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Ed

 

[tifosi]

I'm happy with Namedrive and their response.

I wonder if this is in any way related to the issue I raised a while ago where you could configure a list of names only to realise you weren't logged in and the only option was to create a new account or put them on hold?

did this get sorted Ed?

When logged in I've had no problems at all.

Ed... can we have a Gambling related Header please. The nearest is games, but a joystick looks out of place. A nice gameboard green/blue with pictures of roulette/poker etc would be nice.

Stephen

 

[retired_member27]

I will try again sometime today, by the sounds of it, it looks like I'm doing something wrong. Ed , if the problems persist I will email you directly. Cheers.

 

[Brassneck]

Ed - would it be possible to include some tutorials or more guidance on the Namedrive site to help us all take better advantage of what is on offer. I am also finding (this also goes for SedoPro) that the more options and functions you include the more difficult it is to understand what's going on. Clearly we all want to get the best out of this to our mutual benefit.

Specifically - can you summarise here the pros & cons of 1-click v portal option. Also, if you set up a keyword applying to all regions and then also for the individual regions for a domain, does it default to the 'all region' keyword if set or only if no keyword is set for the particular region.

Thanks
Stephen.

 

[NameDriver]

Hi there,

I appreciate that it is getting a bit confusing at the moment and we are currently re-vamping our FAQ and there'll be little "?" here and there so it can tell you what each option does. A quick breakdown on all the new stuff:

Portal vs 1-click:

I would certainly go for the 1-click option on most domains. The portal is really good for domains where you are not really sure about what the content of the site should be or for domains that are more informational than 'sales' - e.g. searchanything.co.uk would be better on a portal than cars.co.uk which is better-suited to one-cilick page. I'd say that most people should have around 90% of their names on the one-click option as the CTR is generally higher.

That's part one. I'll post more later but I have to go and listen to a boring lecture.

More anon.

Ed

 

[NameDriver]

Part II that I couldn't write yesterday due to my boring meeting that continued till 11.30 last night. No football for Ed.

Category / SubCategory.

The selection of the category and subcategory places high-searched, high-paying relevant links on your pages. I just read yesterday that this will also be incorporated by another parking company on this board. I suppose being copied is a complement
Each category also has a default header that goes with it - see header preview.

If you have the domain mobilephones.co.uk, selecting Electronics will put the electronics header on the page and four electronics-related top searches on the left of the page. In the case of Electronics - General:
Digital Cameras
Computers
Phones
TV
Now then, the electronics header is perfect for mobile phones, so leave it as it is. If you'd like even more targeted RS on the left of your page, you can then choose the subcategory: Electronics - Mobile phones and you get:
Cell phones
Mobile Phones
Satellite Cell phones
Pre paid phones
Down the left. Nice, high-paying, high-searched terms.

The keyword box then generates the 8 related searches under these four terms and, as you know, the pages self-learn depending on user behaviour.

What several people are I think not aware of is the fact that we will put any 12 relevant related searches up there you like. Just send us a .txt file with the 12 RS you'd like up there and the domain in question and we'll stick them up there. This can be particularly handy if you'd like to avoid a Trademark issue or if you'd like to really get down and dirty with optimizing your domains

As I say, I am currently totally re-writing the FAQ section that was written in August. We have evolved so rapidly that much of that makes little sense, so a new ND handbook is necessary and will be available soon.

Our goal was always to provide the most comprehensive and manageable domain management system and, though daunting at first, if you take time to get to know it, it treats you well.

I'll keep any updates coming and will hopefully have the FAQ finished by the weekend or Sunday at the latest. Ask any specific questions, niggles on here and I'll post the answer for everyone to see.

Ed