We’ve been incredibly busy over the past 5 months with the development of our new platform, set to launch in beta in the next several weeks. Within the next week, we’ll be sending another email with detailed highlights of the new platform, so you can see what we have in store. In the meantime, here is a quick, but important notice.

DNS Change

In preparation for our new platform launch, we have successfully migrated our servers to a more robust data center that will be able to keep up with our exciting growth. We’re now hosting over 60,000 domain names on our platform. With this move, our IP addresses have changed. What this means…

• If you use our nameservers for your domains, ns1.whypark.com and ns2.whypark.com, the migration to our new data center has already taken place. You do not need to make any changes.
• If you manage your own DNS, you will need to make the following change to your A record(s): Our IP address has changed from 207.58.206.106 to 98.129.126.138

Our previous servers will stay online for the next 2 weeks to give you time to make your changes. Again, you only need to make these changes if you do NOT use WhyPark’s nameservers. If you use our nameservers, you do not need to do anything.

New Platform on the Horizon…

As mentioned above, we’ve been diligently working on our new platform since April. We have approximately 2,400 man-hours into this project and are working hard to launch in the coming weeks. Within the next week, we will issue a comprehensive overview of our new platform with screenshots and detailed information. We’ve focused heavily on important issues like making sites more unique, bringing repeat traffic to a site and ways to generate new, relevant traffic. We’ve been itching to publish this information since April and are looking forward to finally sharing our vision with our customers. Thank you,

Craig Rowe
President
WhyPark, LLC

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We are migrating to a new data center with new, upgraded servers and more bandwidth. The Domain Manager will be offline on Friday, December 21st, 2007 from 7:30am – 9:30am EST. Your sites will remain online during this migration.

If you use our nameservers (ns1.whypark.com and ns2.whypark.com) you will not need to do anything. If you manage your own DNS, please change your A Record to 207.58.206.106 after 7:30am EST on Friday. Sites will still resolve to the current IP address for several days to provide time for propagation. We apologize for the inconvenience to those managing their own DNS.

Just a friendly reminder so you don’t lose revenue due to your Whypark sites being down if you didn’t use their nameservers. My Whypark trial results are here in case you got here via Google searching for a Whypark review. Craig if you read this you need to set up an updates section over at Whypark.com. I get all your visitors for people searching for ‘Whypark news’. Not that I’m complaining of course, but it might be helpful for your users too. Happy domaining to you .

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• Whypark Review Day 1
• Whypark Review Day 15
• Whypark Review Day 19
• Whypark Review Day 30
• Whypark Review Day 45
• Whypark Review Page Rank Received

Over all this is a nice program for those people who have some domain names that do not receive any hits while their domain is parked at sites like GoDaddy, NameDrive, Sedo etc. The reason is that Whypark will get your site indexed in Google, and other search engines. Parked domains usually will not get your sites indexed. If your sites already get type in traffic without the use of SEO then you will be better off developing the site or keeping it on the its domain parking host.

Overall Traffic Details during the complete Trial period from September to Current

The first few weeks after the articles in my Whypark site got indexed I was ranking very well for the keywords listed. I also got quite a bit of traffic from Google from the SEO on 2000+ pages. I did notice however that after 2 months the articles started disappearing from its index. In November the indexed pages were down to about 1,500. If you notice for December I started receiving little to no traffic as I currently have only 400 pages indexed with none of them ranking for keywords in the finance niche. This was the running stats with no articles published to push the keyword rankings higher. (I assumed people would want a domain stat tracking that for sites with little to extra work was needed).

Note that the finance niche has plenty of competition, so sites like Whypark will do better if you target less competitive keywords. My site got lumped into high authority sites like CNN Money, Wall Street Journal, and Business Weekly. Also every bank, investor, and stock guide so it is important that you do some keyword research first before jumping in.

Adsense revenue earned during the 3 months totaled out at a break even $5.50. If I had 100 such sites, and this was the average payout I would have netted $450, after paying for the $99 needed to buy the Whypark credits. If you have more than 100 domains I would try it out for 3 months, and then after your sites are done move them back to your previous domain park service, and move your other untrafficked domains into Whypark since your credits are not tied to a domain.

Conclusion

Whypark won’t bring you thousands of dollars. Then again domain parking doesn’t either for sites that do not get any type in traffic. If you do have sites that are aging with little to no traffic though I do recommend this. It will let you recover at least the cost of the domain name registration fees. When you do setup your sites; do some keyword research first. Do write some articles to give your keyword niche an extra boost in the search rankings. That about wraps it up. Since I still have a Whypark account I’ll be running another test on another domain once I move this blog to Wordpress. As always thank you for stopping by.

If you thought that this information was helpful, and want to try Whypark do so here.

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Also want to note for those of you that check on the ongoing Whypark Review I’ve been doing. I will be ending that this month with the final cumulative stats. The reason is that I’ll be using the domain MoneyNe.ws for this blog sometime in the future. Once I figure out the hosting/template design etc. It would be a good time to sign up to Money News by email so you don’t miss any posts when I transition over to wordpress.

Now on to the good stuff! For those of you who use Entrecard stay tuned as I’ll be putting up a contest of sorts for some Entrecard credits in the coming day or so. If you have an idea I should use for a contest entrance besides the usual sign up to my rss or blog about me types leave me a comment. If I use it I’ll give you extra contest entries with a link back to you =).

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We Want to Buy Your Templates

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A common request from WhyPark users is “add more templates!” We are planning on continually adding more templates, but would like to reach out to our user base first. If you’ve developed or would like to develop new templates for WhyPark and we think your template will be a good fit for other WhyPark users, we’ll pay you $100 for each template we use. To submit your template for consideration, please do the following:

• Reply to this message or email craig @ whypark.net with the links to your custom templates in action on WhyPark
• Your template must be unique that you developed and have the right to use and sell (you will be required to sign a short release form)
• We are looking for templates that can be used across a wide variety of domains and subjects.
• If your template is accepted, we will pay you $100 by PayPal and will add your template to our gallery for all users to use and enjoy!

Server Improvements

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We are constantly monitoring our servers for uptime and capacity. We are in the process of making several upgrades to our network for improved server capacity and to help display your sites quicker and more reliably. We will send you an email notice if there is any planned downtime related to these upgrades.

Upcoming Additions

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We have a number of new projects in the works right now and plan on releasing a number of new features in the first months of 2008. Watch for integrated statistics, tools to help import and manage your domains, shared revenue opportunities, and subscription and managed services.

Quick WhyPark Tip

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The best performing WhyPark sites tend to be niche sites with focused keywords. Rather than using very general terms to get a large number of articles on your site, try using more focused, niche terms. The result will be a smaller site, but very focused on one theme. This will help search engines and visitors see your site as an authority on the subject.

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In my previous post I also mentioned that I was only getting about 1 visitor a month to the Whypark site. This just goes to show you that page rank value has no value or connection to actual website traffic.

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Whypark Review & Trial Day 1
Whypark Review Day 15
Whypark Review Day 19
Whypark Review Day 30

According to Google’s Webmaster tools I have about 1500 pages indexed. Traffic to the site this month has been relatively slow, about 1 visitor/day at the moment. Overall from the site itself I’ve made a little less than $5.00 so far from Adsense. It did help a little bit that I added an Adsense Video as part of a Business news video page. It makes having the plain article site have a little more color, esp. I’ve been thinking instead of just the video page link, that none of the visitors seem to notice, I should just add the video unit to all article pages. I have a lot to learn about ad placement still.

Lately there seems to be more, and more templates that are similar to Whypark. However the downside to them is that you have to have a host company which usually incurs a monthly fee. Whypark hosts your domain for you for free.

I plan on continuing this Whypark trial for a full year, so visit back if you are having doubts about paying the $100 one time charge for the service. While $100 dollars is a lot of money, you have to realize that it is for 100 domains that is hosted for free. Also if you notice, I’ve already made roughly $5.00 in 45 days from just one domain that is less than 3 months old. If you have many domains that get little to no traffic now you should try out Whypark(disclosure: affiliate link).

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However the bad news is that the revenue from each click has gone down significantly compared to September. I got worried about that, and checked around to find out that I wasn’t alone. It seems like this month there are many people who are complaining or noticing a substantial drop in Adsense revenue. I have more clicks into this month from the site, but haven’t even hit $1. Has anyone else noticed a decrease in Adsense revenue for this month as well? My sites are all too new to make any determination.

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So after 19 days of being indexed

Rank 9: problems filling your car with gas
Rank 10: succession plans private equity
Rank 30: what to do when your girlfriend is broke and needs money

Interesting searches, and I have to note that I’m not sure how they are related to the keywords I put in. I also want to point out that the money that the Adsense revenue shows different keywords from Statcounter.

Rank Search

#10			how much money do car dealers make
#10			how much should a dealer come off msrp
#7			www.how much will it cost
#8			talentdrive scam
#?			promoting your grocery store
#9			do i replace the whole toilet
#?			key to a successful entrepreneurial venture

Please note that these results are from using articles that are pretty broad. If one were to setup a niche site with targeted keywords, you would definitely do better with the Click Through Rate(CTR) on the ads. I’m not complaining though so far with what little traffic I’ve gotten Its been averaging around 3-4% CTR.

I’m not sure how your parked domain is doing, but if these stats sound better that what your making from sedo/namedrive etc try out Whypark for yourself and see the difference.

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