AdSense for Domains

[netmeg]

From my inbox:

Many publishers have approached us looking for a way to monetize their domains, and today, we're excited to announce the expansion of AdSense for domains. This product allows publishers to earn revenue through ads placed on undeveloped domains.

With AdSense for domains, users can find relevant information rather than see empty pages or "page not found" errors. Today we present ads, links, and search results on the pages, and may add other useful information in the future. To ensure positive user experience and the quality of our network, these sites are monitored for policy compliance and prohibited from using text and images designed to confuse users.

Advertisers also have additional opportunities to find their customers, and ads on these pages convert well. In addition, we regularly receive requests from advertisers who have found domains to be an effective way to reach their users.

The product will be initially rolled out in phases to English-language AdSense publishers located in North America, and we'll expand to additional regions and languages in the future. To check whether AdSense for domains has been enabled for your account, log in and visit your AdSense Setup tab. For more information, please visit our Help Center.

Here's the link to the official announcement:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/

Well? Is this a gamechanger or not?

I don't show it in my own account as yet.

Can't help but wonder what this means to the parking companies with Google feeds, like SEDO, Fabulous, and all the others. Whoosh! This one caught me by surprise.

 

[Spade]

Im testing out one of my domains on this platform. We'll see how it does. It appears to need to be validated with the DNS information.

 

[-REECE-]

I was in communication with the editor for DevStart.com yesterday -- a perfect example of having a few very good websites instead of a bunch of bad or parked ones. Long story short: Their websites collectively receive 500,000 uniques per month. How many domainers can say they get that

I have said it before and i will say it again, "20 well developed domain names will out perform 1000+ parked/mini-site domain names!"

I agree with that 100 % I would rather only own 20 developed and working toward getting rid of everything else.

Smart IMO REECE, Best of luck.

Completely agree. Even something so simple as a blog is much more desirable for visitors than a parked page + you get the benefit of being well indexed in search engines. Between the 2 domains I've turned into blogs, Google has already sent me 300 uniques in December.

I have said it before and i will say it again, "20 well developed domain names will out perform 1000+ parked/mini-site domain names!"

I agree with that 100 % I would rather only own 20 developed and working toward getting rid of everything else.

Smart IMO REECE, Best of luck.

 

[wot]

I have paid people to develop on my behalf and I can safely say that not one of my fully developed/ mini sites ever came/come close to making the money I make from buying /selling- in fact the income has been poor.

That said -I am now moving heavily in to the Chinese IDN market where I see a much bigger potential than in ascii- already had my first Chinese IDN developed (see my sig) launched last week and we are already seeing new visits leaping by the day - hopefully that will continue and then we will look at selling ad space in the next few months. ( avoiding adsense if possible)

Next project will be Putonghua.cn/ 普通话.cn for online study of Chinese - subject to funding. :gl:

 

[Ross]

I was in communication with the editor for DevStart.com yesterday -- a perfect example of having a few very good websites instead of a bunch of bad or parked ones. Long story short: Their websites collectively receive 500,000 uniques per month. How many domainers can say they get that

Exactly my point Reece. Direct ads have a better efficiency and profit that ppc. With ppc you are earning someone else money. With direct ads you are profiting 100% from the work you have put in. IMO, domaining is changing in big ways. People are not seeing this at all and will be shaken out in the end.

I think google is doing this to get a better grasp on domainers. Once they do that they can shake out all the worthless non direct traffic earners from SERPs. After that you will only be left with quality parked type-in domains and with quality content rich sites. What more would anyone getting on the internet want?

Google is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes IMO.

 

[-REECE-]

Google really has no choice imho. Too many arbitrageurs despite it being against their TOS, WAY too many scrapers and now it seems RSS aggregation is bringing scraping to the next level. Then there's all that click fraud...

All this stuff isn't converting for advertisers.

Exactly my point Reece. Direct ads have a better efficiency and profit that ppc. With ppc you are earning someone else money. With direct ads you are profiting 100% from the work you have put in. IMO, domaining is changing in big ways. People are not seeing this at all and will be shaken out in the end.

I think google is doing this to get a better grasp on domainers. Once they do that they can shake out all the worthless non direct traffic earners from SERPs. After that you will only be left with quality parked type-in domains and with quality content rich sites. What more would anyone getting on the internet want?

Google is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes IMO.

 

[Ross]

Google really has no choice imho. Too many arbitrageurs despite it being banned, WAY too many scrapers and now it seems RSS aggregation is bring scraping to the next level. Then there's all that click fraud...

All this stuff isn't converting for advertisers.

Exactly now people are getting it. WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES! Big domainers down the little 2 domain newbie are guilty of it....

 

[cache]

How do you setup this?

I tried to follow the instruction: "To get started, first sign in to your AdSense account and visit the AdSense Setup tab. Then, choose AdSense for domains as the product to begin setting up your domains. Click the + Add new domains link, which will take you to the Add Parked Domains page. "

However I can not find the tab for "choose AdSense for domains". Anyone is successful setting this up?

 

[Ross]

How do you setup this?

I tried to follow the instruction: "To get started, first sign in to your AdSense account and visit the AdSense Setup tab. Then, choose AdSense for domains as the product to begin setting up your domains. Click the + Add new domains link, which will take you to the Add Parked Domains page. "

However I can not find the tab for "choose AdSense for domains". Anyone is successful setting this up?

Hasn't been activated for you yet !

 

[Spade]

I have it in my adsense account. I am just waiting on the domain name to resolve and google to recognize it.

 

[npcomplete]

.....guess I just fear them paying out good in the beginning so all domainers leave the parking companies and then the parking companies close up shop and then a year later google reduces revenue share and then you have no where to turn to as the parking companies don't exist anymore or the ones that do have been weakened so their rev share is now worthless, monopoly with a capital "M" or "G"oogle, will be interesting to watch

I think you've possibly summed up the situation perfectly. It really depends on if Google is looking to extend their tentacles far enough & with enough malice to squeeze the parking companies out of traffic business all together.

Sounds like a great way to grow and expand the monopoly! Kill the competition using near total control of a market, then once the competition is dead you own the world and can dictate terms to customers without that bothersome "free market" thing to worry about. Not as if this hasn't happened numerous times in other markets where a group controlling a market drives the competition out of business.

 

[goodkarmaco]

Could be market share, or maybe they are bleeding money and are doing what those who owned Wall St companies did, sell or grab assets to keep the ball rolling. Who knows, but I seriously doubt doing it like they did, not announcing anything plus the knock out punch to parking companies means that are all of a sudden domain lovers. No I think it the long run they want us out. But cash is needed, and all these domains are just one way to get some cash quickly.

Its all theory at this point and anyone may be right about this. Well at least its not just domainers sharing this. Whats the future? Porn and chocolate, lol.

 

[mwzd]

we'll help the giant bury the very people that were there fighting for us while the giant was imposing its will just a few short months ago.

Are you sure a lot of parking companies wont just sell to google? And this is a way of squeezing a better purchase price.

Sounds like a great way to grow and expand the monopoly! Kill the competition using near total control of a market.

Would actually be better for us, then the US govt can kick in on this monopoly and many others.

My account has not been activated for domains, not that parking or even adsense today makes any difference to our bottomline, in fact our entire network is ad free since August 1 2008. We're going to implement ads again but are implementing an ad server among other things, so took some time.

 

[Carlton]

Sounds like a great way to grow and expand the monopoly! Kill the competition using near total control of a market ...

This seems like the most likely scenario. I'll add the generic Google lander is terrible, and would be a natural starting point for improvement if they're serious about pursuing domainer portfolios.

 

[TOXX]

Overall I think this will bring the Domain Parking industry back in the right direction!

 

[enlytend]

Sounds like a great way to grow and expand the monopoly! Kill the competition using near total control of a market, then once the competition is dead you own the world and can dictate terms to customers without that bothersome "free market" thing to worry about.

Unless they make some major enhancements to the program, I don't see it as a threat to parking companies. Parking companies are miles ahead of AFD with "value added" features like different landing page layouts, image selection, custom text, custom titles ... Adsense for domains has one basic lander. You can change the colors, you can set "keyword hints" -that's it.

 

[Mark]

I haven't added any personally - but someone from another board has ... and if you use the searchbox on the parked domain it shows normal google results with sponsored ads off to the right - Just like any normal "google" search.

You can change font colors etc ... but it appears Very limited to say the least.

 

[Datalife]

This is interesting news....

Parking companies MUST step up their game. Things like customer support, better landers (which lead to higher CTR)....and of course, better payouts.

But of course, the big question is, would Google give SERP rankings for parked domains using their AFD?

If yes, that means every domainer is going to try to SEO their names to the front page, and that can only spell TROUBLE. Nobody will bother trying to make good websites. The internet will become nothing more than a pile of junk.

 

[intheflow]

assimilated

You will be assimilated
resistance is futile!


Interesting move to say the least. It is quite the opposite from the years of going after no content sites and arbies. Reminds me of the google assault on paid links, unless of course they are adwords links, then it is ok! Parking is bad, unless of course they are making money off of it! They will slowly and thoroughly destroy parking companies and anyone else that is making money off of advertising until they are running the whole show. They control the largest database of information that has ever been collected on this planet and will continue to expand their power and influence.

You will be assimilated
resistance is futile!

 

[Spade]

I loaded mine yesterday:

Eagle Talon (.com) (No Space obviously)....

 

[mhdoc]

I loaded mine yesterday:

Eagle Talon (.com) (No Space obviously)....

The #2 result when I look at it is "Eagle Talon" Everything to do with Eagle Talon items. Yahoo.com

 

[Spade]

The #2 result when I look at it is "Eagle Talon" Everything to do with Eagle Talon items. Yahoo.com

Yah, I noticed that too. This domain performed decently on parked - so if it doenst do much in the next week - back to Parked it goes.

 

[mis_chiff]

Question about the approval process,
if the domain has already been de-indexed
by Google because of a bad script - will they
accept it again - since it'll be their ads?

 

[Spade]

Question about the approval process,
if the domain has already been de-indexed
by Google because of a bad script - will they
accept it again - since it'll be their ads?

Only one way to find out...

 

[mis_chiff]

Only one way to find out...

I'm patiently waiting for it to show in my account so I can
find out... but, not there yet

 

[-REECE-]

Once upon a time Google actually did no evil.