| Questionable Traffic Spikes, need advice
Wondering what could cause traffic spikes. |
dakuma
msg:3593723 | 4:27 am on Mar 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hey everyone, I'm fairly new to domain parking and domaining in general, but have managed to purchase 70 or so domain names. Among the first 20 or so names was a site/name that was eventually taken down by my parking affiliate <edit> for questionable traffic </edit>. Now a couple of months later another domain, suddenly had a traffic spike. My question is, how can this happen? Is there any chance at all that this could be legitimate traffic? And second, should I email my parking affiliate to alert them to this issue? Thanks for any advice :) [edited by: Webwork at 5:30 am (utc) on Mar. 7, 2008]
[edit reason] Please read the Charter regarding "traffic comments" [/edit]
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Webwork
msg:3593767 | 5:35 am on Mar 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Most parking companies track referrer traffic, which should give some indication about the source or stimulus. Sudden spikes can happen for legitimate reasons, such as a misquote in the mainstream media. FactCheck.com/.org was a classic example. It's the .Org but a government official made a statement indicating it was a .Com domain. It would be wise to sound the alarm but chances are alarms are already sounding.
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dakuma
msg:3593808 | 7:18 am on Mar 7, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the reply Webwork, I've sent off a quick email my affiliate just to give them the heads up, but as you say I'm sure they monitor everything very closely. I am more worried about them thinking that I may have had some part in the questionable traffic, considering this is the second time for me. But hey, I'm innocent so I guess I shouldn't worry too much, and they did post the earning for the traffic and all of the clicks as well so, sweet, maybe it was just my lucky day :)
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Insomniak
msg:3599351 | 9:18 am on Mar 13, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I purchased some geo names a few months ago and soon after parking they all had a huge traffic surge for a day, the click rate was also an amazing 50%. At first I thought I had picked some amazing names but the traffic soon disappeared. The traffic seemed legit in that the larger geo areas had more traffic then the small ones and a bot would not have differentiated this. My theory is google gives new sites a few hours of fame before sending them to purgatory.
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