Ads to parked pages.

Ads for parked pages, now what?

[fischermx]

Wait a minutes, this is something we really can't stand.
I understand the "business model" of directories and small search engines that put ads for value keywords just to land in a listing with more ads. That's certainly, somehow, fine.

But, now, looking for lousy advertisers on my site, I found an ad for a site, <snip> that is a parked page. Yes, a parked page. And note, I have nothing against parked domains, I owe a couple hundred, but I don't place ads nor put any kind of traffic to send people to a page with merely ads.

I think this is really against the Adwords TOS.

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:23 pm (utc) on Nov. 24, 2005]
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[Tropical Island]

Many of the MFAs and MFO/Ys we have been talking about in the other threads are parked domains. Google's own parked domain program is a big offender..

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[fischermx]

Many of the MFAs and MFO/Ys we have been talking about in the other threads are parked domains.

Well, I don't think so. No way to compare. I mean, "formal" parked pages are one thing totally different than what people call MFAs.

[fischermx]

Google's own parked domain program is a big offender..

Why? I mean, why on earth?
What's the offending thing in legal parked pages?

[Tropical Island]

There is nothing wrong in legal parked pages.

What is wrong is when they start buying AdWords campaigns and then flood the AdSense publishers with ads that land on parked domains with nothing but paid links.

I don't know about the rest of you but I don't want to lose my visitors to this low paying garbage.

That's the problem!

[novice]

Buying AdWords for parked domain does not violate AdWords TOS. However using a redirect or a forward from the displayed URL is a violation of AdWords TOS. Most domain owners forward their domains to authorized AdSense parked sevices which means they are violating the TOS.

Also, out of curiosity, I contacted Sedo a while back about their policy on running AdWords ads for domains parked with them and stated it violated Sedo TOS.

fischermx, the best thing you can do is, when you see these ads contact AdWords and inform them of the redirect. Also contact the company hosting the parked domain and inform them of this activity.