Mystery of Sedo Parking Templates

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by AlienGG, Jan 28, 2007.

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    During the last a few months, I was having trouble keeping Alexa ranks on all of my domains parked at Sedo. The traffic didn't seem to go away, but the rankings had gone south.

    Since the beginning of 2007, I started comparing my domains against many others parked at Sedo with traffic. I was surprised that domains that received 6000+ uniques monthly, according to Sedo stats, were not ranked; however, some domains with less than 200 uniques monthly had become movers on Alexa. The only difference I found was that the ones that were ranked were using Retro templates, and the "losers" were with something else.

    To prove my hypothesis, the parking templates for all domains were changed to Retro Green. In just 2 weeks, I see their ranks moving up again. It may work on the Lite template as well, but I haven't tried.

    Let me know if it's useful. :)

    :D :D :D
     
    AlienGG, Jan 28, 2007 IP
  2. Nick_Mayhem

    Nick_Mayhem Notable Member

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    And is it having some effect for indexing in the search engines?

    I have heard that some templates on some parking companies gets indexed nicely in the search engines.
     
    Nick_Mayhem, Jan 29, 2007 IP
  3. AlienGG

    AlienGG Banned

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    I am not sure about this. It will take some time to see.
     
    AlienGG, Jan 29, 2007 IP
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    pagespank Peon

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    Dude, don't worry about your Alexa stats - they're heavily skewed towards technical users, easily gamed, and have no effect on traffic or search engine rankings.
     
    pagespank, Jan 29, 2007 IP
  5. AlienGG

    AlienGG Banned

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    That's what I told those people who questioned some of my domains. Alexa is indeed for n00bs, but many people like it, and hard to convince them not to.
     
    AlienGG, Jan 29, 2007 IP