Whypark News – DNS Updated, and New Platform to be Launched Soon

I had written a review about Whypark (a different type of domain parking service) quite a few months back. It looks like Craig Rowe is updating Whypark’s DNS as well as letting users know about an upcoming new platform launch in the near future. If you currently use Whypark, and manage your own DNS, you’ll need the following information for it to work correctly. Also look in your inboxes for detailed updated highlights regarding Whypark. Read more

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Whypark Down? No Just Upgrading Check Your E-mail

FYI for those of you using Whypark, check the latest e-mail from Craig regarding Friday’s server upgrade. The upgrade is due to them purchasing space on some new data centers, and high end servers. This should hopefully help with the occasional time outs on the sitemap validation check you see in the Google Webmasters section. From the e-mail:

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 100 – Final Stats and Thoughts

About three months ago I started up a test domain on Whypark to try it out. Today will be the last day for my site MoneyNe.ws on Whypark as I will be moving my blog onto the domain. I made a list of all the Whypark posts I made for easy reading:

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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Happy First 5,000 Page Views – Heres to Many More

Happy Holidays to you all. Its been a little more than three months that this blog has been up and running. It looks like today I hit the first 5,000 page view mark. More than half of that has been within the last 3 weeks as I started promoting the blog more. I just wanted to say thank you for those of you who stop by regularly to make this a fun blogging journey for me.

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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WhyPark Update – Paying $100 For Templates

Some news from the WhyPark Creator Craig this month. Also if you are a website developer here is an opportunity for you too.

We Want to Buy Your Templates

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

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

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

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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