jtara - 1:08 am on Jan 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

There's more than a bit of irony and duplicity in Google's policies.

While the operation that I outlined in the Adwords forum here (see link 2 posts above) seems clearly against the Adsense TOS, you can do essentially the same thing using Google's parking program.

The only real differences are:

- No nonsense phrases on the official program - only keywords and ads.

- No crosslinking between sites in the official program

- Official Google program vs. do-it-yourself

The ultimate insult to Adwords advertisers is that some of the sites in the Google parking program are classified as "search". (You got keywords? You got ads? You got a Google search box? You got a "search site"!) And they get thrown in to "Search Network", which they've convinced many advertisers is safe ground.

I'm probably going to pull-back to Google Search only, until/unless Google gives me the ability to remove parking sites from so-called "search network".

I do want the AOL, Ask Jeves, etc. traffic. Don't want parked domains.