AdSense for Domains Now Open to All Publishers

We've announced that we are extending AdSense for domains to all publishers

[AdSenseAdvisor]

We just posted this announcement on the Inside AdSense blog.

ASA

[netmeg]

I just got this in my email. Dunno what to make of it.

[farmboy]

I think it's certainly going to fuel the theories that Google is desperate for dollars.

I think it's going to disappoint those who wanted the entire AdSense for Domains program eliminated.

I think it's going to cause a lot of desirable domains to be unavailable for site development purposes.

FarmBoy

[himalayaswater]

It is only limited to north American publisher. This page troughs lots of light on conversion issue:
[adwords.google.com...] and here is a blog post [adsense.blogspot.com].

[OnlyToday]

Wonderful for Google and domain speculators. For the internet, the public, and our civilization, another bucket of slop in the face. Shame on you Google.

This is coming from someone who watches these things and thinks about them a lot. You may rationalize it all you like with remarks about "relevant information" IMHO you are monetizing error.

There may be some (tiny) redeeming value if you exercized more control over the ads being run. But as it stands this just degrades the value of the internet, hurts the acquisition of knowledge generally and slows human progress.

edited for clarity

[edited by: OnlyToday at 5:59 pm (utc) on Dec. 11, 2008]

[netmeg]

I can't help but wonder what it's going to do for the parking companies with Google ad feeds, like SEDO, Fabulous and more. Whoosh! Gotta say I wasn't expecting this.

I think it's going to cause a lot of desirable domains to be unavailable for site development purposes.

This is already the case, I don't think it's going to cause more. Domains are like real estate, and the likely valuable ones get snarfed up by those who can and do. AdSense TOS are actually a lot stricter than most Parking companies' are, that's going to limit some of the current domainers - and some portion of them aren't eligible for AdSense for other reasons anyway.

disclaimer: I own around 1500 domains myself

[farmboy]

I think it's going to cause a lot of desirable domains to be unavailable for site development purposes.

This is already the case

Maybe I should have written, "it's going to cause a lot more..."

This will likely create a new wave of people seeking to get rich quick. Look for ebooks explaning the "Secret to Easy Money With Domain Names."

Even poor domains will be purchased and parked, at least until the renewal fee becomes due.

And just as it seems Google doesn't have the resources to keep bad ads out of the system (i.e. the recent diet ads), now they are going to have to devote resources to policing the domain program to weed out the trademark and intellectual property violations in the domains people register.

FarmBoy

[netmeg]

The big question is, will they show up in the SERPs? Currently most parked domains (not all, I know I know) are deprecated and don't show up except for a really really long tail search.

[OnlyToday]

Domain parkers are continually upgrading the look and feel of the pages they serve so as to mimic actual websites. When AdSense blocks begin appearing on these pages it will increase the tendency of the average web surfer to associate the AdSense brand with "oops, error, move on."

It is a dilution and debasement of the brand and added incentive for me to find an alternative monetization for my site(s).

[Bddmed]

Why do you ask for our top five wishes? Apparently you are spending time and efforts in things we really do *not* want as publishers.