Comments on: Traffic Quality is paramount http://www.diorex.com/traffic-quality-is-paramount/ Random Musings about Internet Marketing Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:15:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Firelead http://www.diorex.com/traffic-quality-is-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Firelead Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:19:44 +0000 http://diorex.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/traffic-quality-is-paramount/#comment-219 I try to only buy .com's and make them as short as possible. I use domainsbot a lot to get good domain names. Surprisingly there are a lot of good ones still left, you just gotta know how to look. I'm more interested in the long term real estate aspect of buying great domain names. Every once in a while a good 3 letter domain name with no numbers goes up for auction on sedo for under 10k. These type of domains are the blue chips. I try to only buy .com’s and make them as short as possible. I use domainsbot a lot to get good domain names. Surprisingly there are a lot of good ones still left, you just gotta know how to look. I’m more interested in the long term real estate aspect of buying great domain names. Every once in a while a good 3 letter domain name with no numbers goes up for auction on sedo for under 10k. These type of domains are the blue chips.

]]> By: g http://www.diorex.com/traffic-quality-is-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-218 g Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:40:44 +0000 http://diorex.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/traffic-quality-is-paramount/#comment-218 "you have just lost out on about 3 of the top 7 names in that industry" Does this mean you are tripling up in Google? Can you pull that off for all of your offers? “you have just lost out on about 3 of the top 7 names in that industry”

Does this mean you are tripling up in Google? Can you pull that off for all of your offers?

]]> By: Smaxor http://www.diorex.com/traffic-quality-is-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Smaxor Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:05:44 +0000 http://diorex.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/traffic-quality-is-paramount/#comment-217 I tried enhance.com, one of Marchex properties. And out of 25 clicks they charged me for 15 of them were from the same IP over a day and a half. They block everything so you can't see where the traffic is coming from so I'd suggest staying the hell away from them. Also now that YSM's blacklist is in place it's nice you can block the partners like Tooseeka that are just arbitraging traffic which is 100% trash. YSM was totally un-profitable for me before they added the blacklisting. With Blacklisting I've been able to get my stuff up to a 10-20% profit. I'd love to hear what metrics you look at when you look at the end of month report. That would be pretty cool. What numbers you look at and what decisions you make based on them. Would you be interested in making a post like that? I tried enhance.com, one of Marchex properties. And out of 25 clicks they charged me for 15 of them were from the same IP over a day and a half. They block everything so you can’t see where the traffic is coming from so I’d suggest staying the hell away from them.

Also now that YSM’s blacklist is in place it’s nice you can block the partners like Tooseeka that are just arbitraging traffic which is 100% trash. YSM was totally un-profitable for me before they added the blacklisting. With Blacklisting I’ve been able to get my stuff up to a 10-20% profit.

I’d love to hear what metrics you look at when you look at the end of month report. That would be pretty cool. What numbers you look at and what decisions you make based on them. Would you be interested in making a post like that?

]]> By: Andrew Johnson http://www.diorex.com/traffic-quality-is-paramount/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Andrew Johnson Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:14:45 +0000 http://diorex.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/traffic-quality-is-paramount/#comment-216 This presents a case where the good traffic is undervalued while bad traffic is overvalued. More good news for high quality domain holders. Sure, some domainers are getting a bad deal right now, but the momentum of quality traffic demand is on their side. It is the domain parking companies that are at risk of having their financials destroyed and good customers lost. Other companies, like Marchex, rumored to be engaged in PPC arbitrage, might also see big hits. What percentage of advertisers are even tracking this stuff? I have heard from quite a few novice PPC advertisers that they avoid Yahoo due to poor traffic quality. In that case, they aren't even differentiating content from search. Even for me, I don't watch Google's traffic sources very closely. This presents a case where the good traffic is undervalued while bad traffic is overvalued. More good news for high quality domain holders. Sure, some domainers are getting a bad deal right now, but the momentum of quality traffic demand is on their side. It is the domain parking companies that are at risk of having their financials destroyed and good customers lost. Other companies, like Marchex, rumored to be engaged in PPC arbitrage, might also see big hits.

What percentage of advertisers are even tracking this stuff? I have heard from quite a few novice PPC advertisers that they avoid Yahoo due to poor traffic quality. In that case, they aren’t even differentiating content from search. Even for me, I don’t watch Google’s traffic sources very closely.

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