New WhyPark Account Setting: Domain Portfolio Optimization

Today, we added another new option to help you get the most out of your WhyPark account: Portfolio Optimization. In the My Account > Manage Profile section of your account, we’ve added an option: “Optimize My Sites.” When you check this to yes, we will periodically review your account and make changes on your behalf to increase traffic or revenue.



In many cases, we see accounts where some simple settings changes could make a big difference. In the past, we’ve reached out to customers individually to ask if we could make changes for them. This will help streamline the process to give us permission to change your sites as needed. We’ve included a comments box, so you can let us know if certain changes should be off-limits, or if you don’t want us to touch certain sites.

For the most part, the changes we will make will be to the layouts, number of articles, keywords, images, etc to help better target your sites or increase revenue from the traffic you already have. By default, all customers are opted out, so be sure to login to your account and set this option to “Yes” if you’d like us to optimize your account.

New Site Setting: For Sale Link

We've added a new Site Settings option as you add or edit domains individually or in bulk: A For Sale Link.

If you include a "for sale link", the [[forsale]] placeholder will be replaced with the link you've specified. Rather than visitors being taken to our on-site contact form, they'll instead be taken to the link you specify here.

If you want this link to include your domain name in the URL, you can use the [[domain]] placeholder within your URL. For instance, if you sell all of your domains on SnapNames.com, you could use the following link:
https://www.snapnames.com/store/basic.action?dom=[[domain]] as your "For Sale Link" on WhyPark. On your sites, the [[domain]] would be replaced with your actual domain. So, the for sale link on example.com would be converted to https://www.snapnames.com/store/basic.action?dom=example.com.

ChefPatrick.com Contest Winner Announcement

The winner for the WhyPark September Contest has just been announced on ChefPatrick.com's video blog. Check out the video to see if you're the winner of the Amazon Kindle or Netbook Computer.

As a bonus, the lovely Anishya Reyes delivers the news with Patrick. You won't want to miss this video.

Introducing the New Parked.com/WhyPark Forum

We're excited to announce that the new combined Parked.com/WhyPark forum is live at http://forum.parked.com. We have retired the previous forum at forum.whypark.com, which now forwards to our combined forum.

To signup, go to http://forum.parked.com/register.php and complete the registration form. You will be asked for your email address that you use to login to WhyPark and the current number of active sites in your dashboard.

The new forum includes team members from both Parked.com and WhyPark eagerly awaiting your questions and comments. We're looking forward to open, constructive discussions on ways to improve your revenue, customize your WhyPark sites and get the most out of your WhyPark account. As always, we want to hear your ideas on what's missing from WhyPark or what would make your life easier.

Join the discussion today at http://forum.parked.com.

Introducing GroupValuation.com – Free Domain Appraisals

When I can't sleep at night, I tend to sit down and develop new ideas. It's the same way WhyPark came into existence. This past week brought out another quick development project in the form of a free domain name appraisal system: www.GroupValuation.com. The idea behind GroupValuation.com is that you give your opinion on what you feel a domain is worth to your peers. They, in exchange do the same for your domains. The result is that you receive 10 anonymous, free appraisals from 10 different people for each of your domain names.

To get started:

• Go to www.GroupValuation.com and signup for free.
  
• After logging in, you'll see 10 random domains in your dashboard to provide your honest opinion on what you think they're worth.
  
• Submit a dollar value for each of the 10 random domains on your page, and you can then submit one of your domains that you would like to have appraised by other community members.
  
• As community members appraise your domains, you can view the average valuation, omit values that are significantly over or under the average and recalculate the average valuation.

It's simple, free and easy to get started.

WhyPark September Contest: Win an Amazon Kindle or Netbook Computer

We've teamed up with ChefPatrick.com to put together a contest for both existing WhyPark customers and new customers. The winner will receive his or her choice of a new Amazon Kindle or Acer Aspire Netbook, each having a $299 value.

How to enter:

1. Add your domains to WhyPark between now and September 10th
   
2. Domains must be resolving to WhyPark's servers by September 10th and continue through September 15th
   
3. Each domain moved to WhyPark counts as a single entry
   
4. On September 16th, we will choose one domain at random that is resolving to WhyPark and was added between now and September 10th
   
5. The winner will be announced on Chef Patrick's video blog on September 18th

Use our premium domain development platform for free, earn revenue, and have a chance to win a great prize! Signup today or login to your account at www.whypark.com to get started.