While I’m sipping my second sweet Nescafe of the evening – a must in this cold and windy Athenian weather – I can’t but marvel at the duplicity of the Internet.<\/p>\n
It seems that for some US-based companies and services, the focus is the US and very little outside of the 50 US states.<\/p>\n
Earlier today I punched in some of my domains still at Parked.com; while it’s true that my Parked.com portfolio has been almost eradicated I still maintain a few there, for experimental purposes.<\/p>\n
The majority of my parked domains are with Sedo, which maintains a corporate footprint on both the US and Europe.<\/p>\n
And that’s what sets Sedo apart from other parking companies.<\/p>\n
Long story short: when viewed from Greece, many of my domains at Parked.com displayed no ads; instead, the message “No Results match your query” appeared.<\/p>\n
Surely, this can’t be right, particularly when Parked.com boasts several hundred tweakable templates for every keyword imaginable.<\/p>\n
Upon contacting support, I was told to check again. This time around, a couple of ads appeared but they were totally unrelated to the templates and keywords used by these domain names.<\/p>\n
The ever-friendly Parked.com support let me know that “Bing\/Yahoo does not currently accept traffic from the Greek market, so the ads are coming from secondary feeds.”<\/p>\n
I also checked several domains parked at Sedo and didn’t notice any such anomaly; in fact, the majority of the ads that appeared were in Greek and related to the keywords used for that domain.<\/p>\n
In a nutshell: your European traffic might not be worthy to US companies, such as Bing which will then display nothing at all, thus failing to monetize your visitors. I would definitely recommend using Sedo for that matter, as they appear to have a better policy and implementation of traffic monetization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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