jonathanleger - 6:34 am on Jan 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

Adwords users are paying good money to be displayed on pages with this gibberish.

Well, I for one have been getting great conversion rates from these parked domain sites through my AdWords campaigns. I'm sure I'm not the only one either. So maybe it doesn't work for everyone, but it works for some--at least it does for me. I agree that Google should give more refined control over where your AdWords ads appear though.

However, as for the parked domains appearing in the SERPs, of course they will! You don't think the guys who are doing this are buying domain names that didn't already have links and traffic do you? These guys are smart: they buy up domains that have been allowed to expire but that still have inbound links and traffic. It takes quite some time before G/Y/M come back around and crawl the sites again to put them in their proper place in the index. In the meantime the parked domains are raking in the cash. Seems pretty clear to me.