100 Domains Moved to Whypark.com Today
Although I am a big fan of minisite development and also use Parked.com and SedoPro for domain parking I have also had a Whypark.com account for a couple years but have never used it to its full potential. Well, today that stops.
Although people have voiced concerns about the potential for duplicate content and also unrelated content at times, the overall upside to using the Whypark.com base services outweigh those concerns from the experience I have had with some past names I used Whypark for.
Although I am still plan to continue development and outsourcing of both minisites and fully developed websites I think the Whypark.com system is a nice middle ground. After seeing parking revenues decline and my minisite revenues continue to climb it only makes sense to use the tools at hand (i.e. my lightly used Whypark.com account).
I plan on also taking advantage of their premium services such as content creation and syndication, they announced these services sometime back but I have yet to take advantage of them. When taking advantage of these services the Whypark.com system will no longer be a middle group but becomes no different than the unique content based sites that I have been focused on.
Over the next couple months I expect to report back on initial success with the domains I have moved, it will be nice to see direct comparisons between their parking stats and Whypark.com stats.
I moved 100 names over today, all keyword rich, all but a few .COM, .NET and .ORG names. I have made no tweaks to the autogenerated sites that Whypark put into place and will be using the Whypark ad feed.
Although I do not expect Whypark to be the ultimate answer for some of my domains, I do think domainers with keyword rich domains that have seen shrinking parking revenues could use the system to their advantage. I expect it to be the answer to my "needing more hours in a day" request I keep asking for:)
Let’s us know how you do there, may be then we can also move some.
Thanks.
Bruce,
I don’t know if you are aware yet but the Standard WhyPark program is now FREE.
No more $100 per 100 domains.
You can add unlimited domains for free.
Aside from the extra services you mentioned above, WhyPark has an Enhanced program for $10 per month and a Managed program for $25 a month.
Since WhyPark is now free, it’s a definite no-brainer to join.
Just read that earlier today, just good timing on me moving my names over, cannot say that I knew ahead of time they were doing that but I cannot complain:) Actually since the post I have moved 107 more domains over.
As far as the extra services, you are correct, my plan is to take advantage of the $25 dollar a month managed program. I have actually been a fan of Whypark for sometime just have not really spent the time needed to take advantage of their services.
Thanks!
I think you will be pleasantly surprised with the new and improved Whypark Bruce. I was quite disgruntled a while back with their seeming lack of direction and support. That was then, this is now.
Things have definitely changed and with the addition of the Yahoo feed, it simply puts it over the top as far as resource for domainers with little to no development skills like myself. The EPC is identical to traditional parking services that I’ve used on a Yahoo feed, with the added benefit of indexing in the search engines. Experienced developers can work wonders with the Whypark service.
It’s not too hard to pick up, even for a code dummy like myself. Worth a try for anyone that is looking for that next step after parking IMO.
“my plan is to take advantage of the $25 dollar a month managed program.”
Bruce,
If it’s not too much of an imposition could you briefly describe what benefit
the managed program offers to you (and me!).
Thanks.
Patrick
Patrick, from experience with other sites that I have the RSS feed integration is of particular interest, plus I am interested in seeing the premium content and automated newsletter.
Now, before someone else comments and says Wordpress has RSS, etc or I can do newsletters free from other systems, etc. Remember the value of Whypark.com is scale. By no means to I consider Whypark base sites to be at the same level as a custom designed page but then again when time is of the essence this works better than parking for some domains (but not all IMO).
The nice part is being able to test it for a month then go off if I am not happy with the results, its $25 bucks, I spend more than that on Starbucks in a week….
Thanks Bruce.
“I spend more than that on Starbucks in a week….”
I believe you!
Great post, I’m currently at SedoPro, and I’m definitely happy with them, but I always wonder if I have some underperforming domain names that could do better with another program.
Update on whypark.com results/experience please… thanks
Steve,
I have not had the time lately to do an indepth comparison but hopefully will get some time to soon. I will say on the face of it there are some winners and losers both. Rather than guess though I hope to compare some actual numbers to give some data in the near future.
Bruce
Bruce,
Any further updates on Whypark?
Thanks, Jim
I moved a majority of the names to SedoPRO after a bit of test, some of the names were doing better traffic wise but the revenue was not much better.
Just due to hours in a day I moved them simply because I could put the effort into doing what I really needed to do to promote the names on Whypark (time was being spent on me starting the main business).
I do still believe in Whypark. Just need to take advantage of my new flexibility in schedule to test properly.