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My questions:
- Is it really that difficult to identify boilerplate sites?
- Is it really that difficult to identify landing pages that are all hosted on one server and running off the same template?
- Is Google regarding these sites as "quality" sites that add something positive to the user experience?
- How do you experience parked pages, and how do you handle them?
As the speed at which the sites are being produced seems to increase, the 200 filter limit is not sufficient any longer. I could easily populate 400 slots in my filter within days.
- We need a bigger, better filter! Now.
- We need to be able to block "by advertiser" rather than by landing page!
It is SOOOO frustrating to see this happening without any chance to prevent it.
And before you ask, no, this is not about low EPC - I am long beyond these finesses! These days it is merely about quality of landing pages. I simply do not want to expose my visitors to these landing pages, because they do not add anything positive. I think users will associate the bad experience of following a link on MY site to MY site and not to Google.
- We need a bigger, better filter! Now.
- We need to be able to block "by advertiser" rather than by landing page
These are the oldest ignored by google requests, personally I've given up, but good luck!
Google is in the parked domain business
There are even porn advertisers on some of those
I reported one of them and was told off by Google that parked domains abide to a completely different set of rules.
There are even porn advertisers on some of those
Funny that you mention this, Hobbs. Today I blocked the first adult parked domain: instead of going to the (now familiar) boilerplate template, the landing page does a lame age-check (you have to click "enter" to verify that you are of legal age) and only then shows the boilerplate parked page with nothing but ads. Frankly, it makes me mad.
But no, so far I have found 300+ and the filter only lets me filter the worst 200. Trouble is they are ALL equally crap.
Of the 300 at least 275 are pure arb sites no longer adwords>adsense but adwords>other (overture?) but still there just as before.
We either need a bigger filter or google to actually do something about it.
Trouble is they are ALL equally crap.
Exactly. I have an increasingly hard time to determine the URLs to be removed to make room for the new additions. It is really difficult. Is a site from parked domain provider redwidgetsdomainparking.com better than a site from parked domain provider greenwidgetsdomainparking.com? No. They are equally bad. There is no difference between the two.
But why does Google let this happen? Why do they say that they are enforcing quality guidelines when in reality they don't? I often wonder how Google employees feel when reading these threads.
It is so frustrating.
I would like to spend more time on developing useful content instead of chasing landing pages with no value to my visitors and adding them to a filter that clearly is sub-standard for an Internet company like Google.
In reality they buy thousands of "visitors" on adwords with plain misleading (and sometimes outright lies) in the copy. So are getting traffic that is not interested in what they offer and clicks to escape since there often no choice. Its about time google banned them as well as ALL sites that dont actually sell a real product or service. I mean in adwords as well as adsense. I have 50 "allthewidget" sites alone in my filter never mind the rest.
- Is it really that difficult to identify boilerplate sites?
- Is it really that difficult to identify landing pages that are all hosted on one server and running off the same template?
- Is Google regarding these sites as "quality" sites that add something positive to the user experience?
Most of my filtered sites are from only a couple of major, multi-domain mfa advertisers. These major mfa advertisers probably make Google lots of money, and I wonder if this could be one reason why they won't institute filtering by advertiser. I also wonder if these major mfa advertisers' low quality landing pages are exempt from the quality score, otherwise I would have thought that they would have been priced out of the Adwords game by now.
Right, and one of them bought up 15 mispellings of my domain name. Drives me nuts! Ban them!
Right, and one of them bought up 15 mispellings of my domain name. Drives me nuts! Ban them!
You are kidding, right?
Did you know that Adsense has a separate program for Domain Parking? You really think Google is going to ban someone who is in their Domain Parking Adsense program (you need some high-traffic to qualify to get in)
those advertisers are not hosting their parked domains on Google. They are using other (3rd party) parking programs. In fact, I have not yet come across an ad that lands on a Google parked page.
No, i'm not kidding.
I even have a competitor that named is company very similar to mine with the same keyword.
The keyword (logo) is a little critter that doesn't exist in his country.
Did you know that Adsense has a separate program for Domain Parking? You really think Google is going to ban someone who is in their Domain Parking Adsense program (you need some high-traffic to qualify to get in)
I see no reason for Google to have to ban users of their Domain Parking AdSense program. Google just needs to prevent them from advertising via AdWords.
FarmBoy
