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These were all good, 1 and 2 proper word domains and have quite a number of impressions daily. I have yet to make one dime on them however in over a month.
How has your experience been with Adsense for Domains -- should I just bail on it and make my own pages?
G never ever considered my proposed keywords, their auto-generated keywords are totally out of context.
This service is BS.
For the OP- yes, you'll most likely be better off putting some content on the pages.
including ones that should have been accepted like wildernesSEXperts.com
LOL. About.com used to have a "kidsexchange" subdomain for children. I can't remember how long it took until they removed the "s." :-)
These were all good, 1 and 2 proper word domains and have quite a number of impressions daily. I have yet to make one dime on them however in over a month.
I have one domain in the program. It's a typosquat of a very popular website (two letters transposed). In July 2009 it received approximately 1200 "landing" page impressions but less than 10 "results" page impressions. Total revenue for the month is about $3, so the eCPM is in the mid $2 range.
The "results" page doesn't have any obvious connection to the revenue. Most often there is some small amount of revenue even without any results impressions. On the flip side, I have seen where there was a results impression with no revenue.
How has your experience been with Adsense for Domains -- should I just bail on it and make my own pages?
The only reason I'm using AdSense for Domains is because it would be pointless to put any effort into a typosquat name. My general impression of the program is that it would be more useful for someone who has thousands of domains to park. If you consider registration fees, I'll bet the margin on this proram is pretty thin. But if a person can clear (on average) 10 cents per name per month, then that's $100 profit for each thousand names. In following years it would be more profitable as the non-performing names are culled. Seems like a lot of work, though.
They close down accounts with little or no content... then allow this.
Stinks of desperation to me.
The important thing to keep in mind about running AdSense on parked domains is that, by nature, it's a low-margin, high-volume business. Unless you're going to have a massive number of domains, why bother?
Unless you're going to have a massive number of domains, why bother?
Curiosity in my case. But as a business model it would be risky, and I don't think the return outweighs the risk. A person could get stuck with a ton of worthless domain names
Unless you're going to have a massive number of domains, why bother?
I have business plans associated with every domain name I own -- unfortunately I don't have the time or resources to address them all immediately. This strategy seemed to me much better than a 'coming soon' page as it offered the potential for revenue generation while the actual plans for the domain were on hold.
The experience thus far has been totally abysmal. One domain I have last month had 999 total page impressions, 998 landing page impressions, and ONE results page impression with NO click-throughs.
Try a real domain parking company then. There are plenty of them out there.
Any you'd recommend particularly over others? It seems the general consensus is that Google Adsense for Domains is total crap... so I've had my original question answered.
I've never seen enough money from a single domain to justify keeping it parked, but it's something to do with them while you're still developing them besides having your registrar put their own parking page up and letting them take your pennies.
I thought Google drops parked pages?
Maybe not if they're parked with Google?
If you park with AdSense for Domains, Google slaps a NOINDEX NOFOLLOW on them, so if they *were* in any search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing) they will be removed.
Other parking companies don't do that. But the search engines are pretty smart about it, and even if a parked domain achieves some rank initially or temporarily, it doesn't usually last.
If you park with AdSense for Domains, Google slaps a NOINDEX NOFOLLOW on them, so if they *were* in any search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing) they will be removed.
In an earlier thread about AdSense for Domains, somebody made the interesting point that Google may have created AdSense for Domains partly for control and tracking reasons or to get a better handle on parked-domain usage. As the old saying goes, "Better the devil you know than the one you don't."
Anyway Google in it's infinite wisdom decided it was in violation of their policies -without any indication *which* part of the policy. I did reread the policy and found nothing even close to what might be wrong with the domainanme ... Asking for explanations yielded also nothing and I gave up on the idea of seeing if my protective area of domainnames on keywords I rank well for have any value at all in parking them.
Hence my very limited experience is all but positive: not worth what you need to put into it.
