DomainPark

Now available direct from google

[Smiley]

[google.com...]

Anyone tried this?

[div01]

This must be a new service...page still has a PR of 0.

[jimbeetle]

Hadn't realized that, max_rk. And it explains much as to why G is going with its own product for this type of thing.

Still think it something G should not get into. This is the type of thing that causes conflicts. Whether real or just perceived it causes people to question the relevancy of results.

[Jenstar]

As Applied Semantics, they did have DomainPark but in a much different version than how it is used now (and you needed much fewer page views to apply). Same set up with keywords, etc, but the current Google version of DomainPark has a much more professional look, and is much less spammy than how Applied Semantics ran it.

With the Applied Semantics version of DomainPark, a person would not even give it a second glance - just rows of keyword phrase links. With the Google version, it has the look of having some useful information there, even if they are still just ads.

[Yidaki]

>let the advertisers decide whether
>they want their ads on there or not.

Only possibility for them is to opt out of the additional AdWords display option (content pages + search results on Googles network) completely since these options include display on the parked domains. Many advertizers (i'd say most) don't know that they don't advertize on quality sites only if these options are checked. Google should provide a third option - "display my ads on parked domains" and should provide an example of such parked domain setups.

>With the Google version, it has the look of having
>some useful information there, even if they are still just ads.

The only way for visitors to leave such a parked domain site is to either close the window or click an ad. Something that has been critized and discussed a lot here at WebmasterWorld. I doubt that in the long term this does any good to the CR of the advertizers' campaigns.

>and you needed much fewer page views to apply

Please note that the Google Sponsored Links Program is currently available only for networks receiving a minimum of 250,000 page views per month.

network not site. One could think that 25 parked domains with 10k PI's / month should be enough to qualify for Sponsored Links Program". I know example networks that sure don't have 10k type ins per parked domain but profit from the domainpark service. They don't even have to be indexed and listed at Google. I doubt Google wouldn't tolerate parked domains which drive their traffic through other search engines.

Bottomline is: if people can make money with their parked domains they won't spend any work, money, time into providing quality content sites. I can see a lot of parked domain games coming.

[Shak]

Give me domain name traffic anyday V content spamming for adsense purposes

having played in the domain industry for some time, I can assure you that quality generic domain traffic rocks.

Shak

[Yidaki]

>content spamming for adsense purposes

YMMV

[Monus]

having played in the domain industry for some time, I can assure you that quality generic domain traffic rocks.

I have never found 'quality' in trafic from domains, it can convert in some times depending the domain. I found it to dirty for to call it quality.

[mfishy]

This is standard in the PPC industry. No big deal. Many, many Overture and FindWhat affiliates doing the same thing.

[Powdork]

register.com? verisign?

Now I'm expecting to get a letter from google telling me my listings on MSN are about to expire and 'Please remit to avoid losing that traffic'.
Those are quite possibly the only two sites I trust less than rz. Good choice Google.:(

[EliteWeb]

Well I was surfing Google.com today and found this page under their services... All those other pages I have seen use it have been expired/hijacked domains. mMmm if google penalizes for re-reg of expired/transfered then it defeats that purpose doesnt it?