sedo pro - how's your month going ??

pendragon · Nov 20, 2006

Pretty poor month for me. Just thought I'd share a few stats and hopefully get a few comparatives back....

CTR 6.8%
Ave EPC 0.17€

thats over 150 domains

Anyone else doing as badly?

Brassneck · Nov 20, 2006

Mine are:

CTR 9.24%
EPC €0.23

This is across 1000+ names.

For the first time since I started parking domains I have more than half my earnings with other parking companies due to continuing slip in my Sedo earnings. Having said that things picked up a bit over last few days.

Stephen.

Nigel · Nov 20, 2006

Been quite a poor month. Terrible start to Nov. EPC been going down every month since the heady days of the Sedo Pro launch in August. No one from Sedo has ever really explained why the revenue shot thro' the roof in August in the days following the launch and has dropped ever since. Did they overpay the split in August? Did they up the revenue to grab market share? Google's been doing well since the summer (according to the Press) so it doesn't appear that there has been a cut in online advertising spend. Thank goodness we didn't go into a domain buying frenzy on the back of those original earnings! Anyway it looks like things may have steadied. The last couple of days we too have noticed that EPC have bottomed out and improved a smidgen and hopefully things will now get better.

Nigel · Nov 21, 2006

I spoke too soon. Today's figures so far are about the worse I can remember for a weekday. CTR down - EPC way down

static · Nov 21, 2006

The time has now come for Sedo to sheepishly dispense with this now redundant and discredited 'Pro' affectation.

Silence is contempt. Time to walk away.

pendragon · Nov 22, 2006

I concur. I'll see the month out and then move on. Thankfully I've just about scraped enough to make a withdrawal.

Brassneck · Nov 22, 2006

static said:
The time has now come for Sedo to sheepishly dispense with this now redundant and discredited 'Pro' affectation.

Silence is contempt. Time to walk away.

I agree.

I'm more than half way gone. Although I am finalising a copy of sales on Sedo at the moment it's also absolutely ages since I had any bids on any of my names.

Stephen.

pendragon · Nov 22, 2006

Any recommendations on where to sell, away from Sedo, esp. for co.uk?

static · Nov 24, 2006

By quite some distance the worst day ever on Sedo. Unfathomable. The end is nigh.

stender · Nov 24, 2006

ditto!.............

Brassneck · Nov 24, 2006

static said:
By quite some distance the worst day ever on Sedo. Unfathomable. The end is nigh.

Same here - and still no comments here from the Sedo rep!

You would think your account manager would be a bit concerned if somebody had moved half of the value your parked domains elsewhere. I have done exactly that and the rest will be going soon but Sedo haven't noticed. So much for pro-active account managers.

Stephen.

Nigel · Nov 25, 2006

Brassneck said:
Same here - and still no comments here from the Sedo rep!

You would think your account manager would be a bit concerned if somebody had moved half of the value your parked domains elsewhere. I have done exactly that and the rest will be going soon but Sedo haven't noticed. So much for pro-active account managers.

Stephen.

Hi Stephen,

I thought that Sedo must be regularly posting in the 'exclusive' section of this forum. Wasn't that the reason a lot of AD members became 'exclusive' members for the extra uplift in commission. I can't quite believe that 'exclusive' members are moving accounts without any comment from Sedo. I've been with Sedo from the beginning and am still hoping that things turn for the better. November and December are notoriously poor months - I've looked back at the last 2 years and they are our worst months, however I also notice that we've added hundreds and hundreds of extra names since last year and traffic is down. I'm fairly sure I read on another forum that only one click is now being counted even if a visitor returns and clicks on a different ad. If that is true then that may make quite a difference in traffic, and why is a second click not counted - does a second legitimate click count as multiple clicking when that visitor is a possible buyer for that second click. It would be good to hear from Sedo and other ppc providers on this and from anyone else who can further explain what is happening on ppc at the moment.

Kind regards,

Nigel

static · Nov 25, 2006

Nigel said:
Hi Stephen,

I thought that Sedo must be regularly posting in the 'exclusive' section of this forum. Wasn't that the reason a lot of AD members became 'exclusive' members for the extra uplift in commission. I can't quite believe that 'exclusive' members are moving accounts without any comment from Sedo. I've been with Sedo from the beginning and am still hoping that things turn for the better. November and December are notoriously poor months - I've looked back at the last 2 years and they are our worst months, however I also notice that we've added hundreds and hundreds of extra names since last year and traffic is down. I'm fairly sure I read on another forum that only one click is now being counted even if a visitor returns and clicks on a different ad. If that is true then that may make quite a difference in traffic, and why is a second click not counted - does a second legitimate click count as multiple clicking when that visitor is a possible buyer for that second click. It would be good to hear from Sedo and other ppc providers on this and from anyone else who can further explain what is happening on ppc at the moment.

Kind regards,

Nigel

I can confirm that second clicks do not register. It means that no transactional value originating from a second, third, fourth.......click from one of our landing pages comes to us. A fraudulent violation of the terms of the parking contract?

Nigel · Nov 25, 2006

static said:
I can confirm that second clicks do not register. It means that no transactional value originating from a second, third, fourth.......click from one of our landing pages comes to us. A fraudulent violation of the terms of the parking contract?

Hi Static

Thanks for this info. Has this been confirmed by Sedo? And does the Advertiser who benefits from these perfectly legitimate clicks really get them completely free of charge?

Kind regards,

Nigel

gimpydog · Nov 25, 2006

One click per UV per day has always been the case with Goog feeds.
Have you ever seen CTR over 100% on a domain at sedo or ND?

If you want to be paid for all legit clicks try a Yahoo feed. The CPC is generally lower, but the CTR higher - often over 100%.

Swings & roundabouts really.

Brassneck · Nov 25, 2006

Nigel said:
Hi Stephen,

I thought that Sedo must be regularly posting in the 'exclusive' section of this forum. Wasn't that the reason a lot of AD members became 'exclusive' members for the extra uplift in commission. I can't quite believe that 'exclusive' members are moving accounts without any comment from Sedo.

Hi Nigel - afraid there hasn't been much action in the bit of the forum. I think I asked Admin before if there is anything he can do to get more a of useful Sedo presence on this forum.

Stephen.