Parked.com Kills Off Arbitrage Leniancy

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Well, it's official as of today.. Just got their email.

Dear Parked.com customers,
We were notified today by Yahoo that all Yahoo based parking companies, including Parked.com, must begin enforcing the no arbitrage/no paid traffic general provision. As a reminder, Section 2 Subsection g. in the Parked.com Terms of Service states:

"All other types of traffic including bought traffic, traffic driven by PPC campaigns, traffic directed from hyperlinks are not permitted. If your traffic originates from any sources other than type-in and search engine traffic, you will not be entitled to payment as per this Agreement. Regular checks are carried out and we reserve the right to suspend any domain from our Service at any time, on our sole discretion, if we reasonably believe that you have violated this Agreement; for example, if we suspect that the traffic on your domain is bought, generated or redirected in any way that contravenes these terms and conditions."

For more information please see Parked.com - Terms of Service.

Accordingly, all arbitrage must stop effective 1pm PST on Thursday, February 14, 2008. Even though arbitrage will no longer be allowed, all accounts will still be paid.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your account manager.
We thank you for your business and continued support.


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HitFarm.com allows arbitrage. I see a lot of PPC traffic going to domains parked at HitFarm. Sucks about Parked.com tho. I have made some decent money running arbi through there until they banned me for using URL redirection scripts to hide keywords. bastards.
 
Yeah, just posted about this in Domaining section - didn't see your post here.

Going to fuck the party up for lots of peoples.
 
oh what a bummer!

Altho I see this will coming someday. Arbi traffic is garbage for advertiser (too bad for those who expect quality traffic and paying high, instead got a garbage one). Time for them to favor the advertiser side or they will meet their fate sooner or later. Yahoo will suffer revenue decline from this move but I bet it's better for them in the long run. Interesting if this has any effect on Microsoft bid...

Any news from other parking service who use yahoo feed?
 
We have a a YSM feed (not YPN) and run a variety of sites with it. Some traffic we buy, I guess that is arbitrage but really any form of media buy could be arbitrage depending on the view you take.

I haven't heard anything from Yahoo direct about this, last time I spoke to Yahoo I asked for their stance on arbitrage, they said while they are not taking on any more arbitrage partners they do support the ones they have who provide decent traffic, they seemed to think that some arbitrage partners provide very good traffic which is obviously the case despite some of the negativity out there. This came out at a recent meeting.

I however do not participate in domaining, so to break this down maybe it is more aimed at 'domain match' partners of which the parking companies make up the bulk.

That said to blanket ban arbitrage is kind of like saying don't do any advertising, I think you have to define it beyond disallowing paying for traffic, show me a YSM partner who doesn't advertise somehow.

So no email or phone call here, it seems to be a few domain parkers so far that are getting this.
 
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