Company moves to JavaScript for domain parking.
Sedo is changing its domain name parking platform over to JavaScript, which is says should lead to higher earnings per click and RPM.
By switching to JavaScript, non-human traffic such as bots and scripts will no longer be counted in statistics. This means most Sedo customers will see reported visitor counts drop, which will thereby push up RPM (revenue per thousand) assuming valid clicks. But the company says that the switch will also enable it to better target advertisements and improve optimization. This could result in higher RPC and RPMs across the board.
Google has long been rumored to be pushing JavaScript as a best practice for domain name parking, but Sedo appears to be making this move ahead of any required changes.
The change will be made by November 1.
Brad says
Sounds like it’s good for the industry. I think Microsoft and Yahoos should mimic this Google move.
DomainersChoice.com says
They could have filtered out the bot traffic / hit to former existing files etc a long time ago. At that time people sold it positively, saying you have more traffic on Sedo.
At the end only the bottom line counts and not how many visitors, how high your RPM is at any parking company. If company x makes you more than y, I would use x, wouldn’t matter if RPM is higher at y.
Francois says
This will block bots and ONLY very basic scripts. But it’s already an improvement for advertisers and indirectly for publishers even if they can say good bye to possible search engine traffic!
Dnabc says
As Francois said that could mean that we will no longer have Sedo’s parking pages ranking? That is the main reason I’m with them, if that is true I’ll start developing my best ones asap…
Donny says
Let’s see, no more search engine listings. Less traffic. Less clicks. Less revenue. Less information. This sounds like a perfect solution!
Dnabc says
That made me laugh, lol!
Gazzip says
“As Francois said that could mean that we will no longer have Sedo’s parking pages ranking? ”
What page ranking?, the only way a sedo parking page ranks anywhere in the results now is if you type thedomainname.com into google. It does’nt even do that at all in Bing
Dnabc says
Sometimes they do rank, especially if the domain has backlinks from the previous owner. Google indexes the parked page and even so it continues on search engine results for a while… but this is not always the case, it depends.
Sergio says
This is great. I love the extra revenue. I think I’m going to move more of my traffic to Sedo.
Dnabc says
There is no extra service, only better looking statistics (RPC). The number of clicks will be the same or lower.
Brad says
Donny, in that case, looks like you have big advantage over Google based companies due to your Microhoo feed.
Brad says
Because of this I am moving my domains from Sedo to some other place. Preferably Donny.
ShuwiX says
Brad: Donny’s biggest advantage is that he’s fair guy.
Unlike greedy Sedo with industries lowest payouts, ……….. or sc*mm*rs from Oversee.net
mooph says
seen broken
Forensix says
Lets hope Sedo is not gobbled up by you know who before the end of the year
Sam Nunez says
re: block bots
No, bots & scripts are no longer counted in Google stats. That does not mean bots will not “see” the page (and hence index it)
Sam Sneed says
So, I now have about 5 domains on Sedo that have been getting 50+ views per day and about 2-3 clicks per day…now they are down to no views and no clicks..I can’t belive it was all bots and scripts..not that I can figure out there the traffic was coming from in the first place..I bet they are filtering legit traffic, too. This sux!
patrick says
I am having the same problem at sedo now my domains get 120 views per month from 1200+ my domains had 120,000 searches this year through my stats page at my registrar so i dns to sedo and still no traffic most are .ca
(don’t laugh) but i cannot believe people do not type in my domains,most are high search generic keyword even my .coms that had decent traffic show nothing now could it only be bots ect that visit my parked pages.
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