Pagi ini aku buka e-mail, ada beberapa email yang masuk, salah satunya dari Parked.com. Isinya cukup mengejutkan, yaitu Yahoo sebagai supplier iklan di parked, melarang segala bentuk arbitrasi sejak tgl 14 besok. Artinya mereka nggak membayar kita, seandainya kita masih melakukan arbitrasi (men-drive traffic dari ppc advertising seperti adwords, MSN, YSM) ini pengumumannya:

Parked Update on Arbitrage

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 http://www.parked.com/tos/. 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. Parked.com

Dengan demikian, akan sulit bagi kita mendapatkan natural traffic, dengan model domain parking seperti ini. Artinya ini saatnya kita mengucapkan selamat tinggal untuk Parked.com. Segala susuatu yang mudah pasti akan cepat berakhir. :)

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