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to the extent that ads on parked domains deplete the ad budgets of AdWords accounts
There is no way of knowing, but consider the possibility that there might not be a heck of a lot of crossover between those two groups; if not, there's no dilution at all.
Like it or not, the new policy has been announced. How many people here intend to quit AdSense in protest? And how many are going to live with the new policy (as I am), despite a lack of enthusiasm for ads on parked domains?
I may not quit Adsense in protest, but I would quit Adwords in protest as this does no good for advertisers. How many clicks from parked domains do you believe are targeted, relevant, and converts? I'd make the assumption, not many. At this point Google might as well allow and encourage MFA sites.
Just remember how long it takes for pages to fall out of some search engines!
Just a thought.
Parked domains are at the very best a bad experience to any accidental visitor. Being associated with that isn't high on my wish list, on the contrary.
Now with the new trends at Google Chrome which allow direct search from the web address area and automatically provide search suggestions type-in traffic is likely to diminish.
How about Google's thinking ahead to all the sites that may close down over the next few months and possibly many of these sites with a lot of traffic may disappear and placing a parking page with the relevant advertising information on them may be useful to AdWorders and visitors?Just remember how long it takes for pages to fall out of some search engines!
Just a thought.
That's actually a good point, because with the state of the economy they could likely cash in from all the failing websites.
How about Google's thinking ahead to all the sites that may close down over the next few months and possibly many of these sites with a lot of traffic may disappear and placing a parking page with the relevant advertising information on them may be useful to AdWorders and visitors?
That strikes me as being a pretty unlikely scenario. I'd guess that the majority of sites with AdSense ads aren't staff-intensive, and of the ones that are, many could simply go into "limp mode" and profit from ads on existing pages.
What are you joining us today from the Gulag in Siberia? The wall fell man, people can own stuff now, come out into the sunshine my friend.
I shake my head when I see people making these comments, particularly if they are American. The reality is that free markets never existed, and that I have to wonder at people who don't quite get that there are some things besides greed and the use of capital that are important.
In fact, one can make a very strong case that the Internet is a common resource, and as such the hording of a limited resource (domain names) is not only unethical but interferes with proper commerce, since it makes it harder for people to find things.
And to extend that, one can argue that google is causing damage to the Internet and its users by providing incentives to hoard domains, and speculate.
The absolute irony is that Americans have several times seen the horrific results of greed and speculation on a) commercial real estate, and b) more recently, homes, under the mistaken notion that the free market (which actually doesn't exist) would regulate.
Who is the better "owner" of widgets4your.com? Someone who bought it, let it sit while speculating it will rise in value, and stick junk ads on it, or me, a lover of widgets who will put intelligent content on it?
Domain names are in essence a finite resource (practically, not theoretically), just as the broadcast and radio bands are, and just as other things are regardless of who "owns" them.
Is farmland better left unused, or used?
PS. It's a null for advertisers, btw, since I just checked the recent interfaces and advertisers can opt out of parked domains. Which I will, when I resume.
