[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by greggish

Try adding one more record as follows... ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/parking-and-traffic-monetization/541579-adsense-for-domains-official-thread.html URL Redirect * www.yourdomain.com

Where would I put that? this record stuff is all new

How come there isin't a @ as the host instead of the www in the CNAME?

I just checked at Google again, and I do have it right

Quote:

# Click Add New CNAME Record. If you've already created a CNAME record for the address, click Edit next to the existing CNAME record. # Step 1: In the 'Host Name' field, enter 'www'

so I guess an email to Godaddy......

[Sadr]

Sorry!!!!!! Don't have a sxxt fit guys. I misunderstood AFD I guess. I checked into that AFD and get it now.
L2, Whypark can't have too much wrong with adult, there is adult in the site category. No nude body on my site.

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by Sadr

Sorry!!!!!! Don't have a sxxt fit guys. I misunderstood AFD I guess. I checked into that AFD and get it now. L2, Whypark can't have too much wrong with adult, there is adult in the site category. No nude body on my site.

Where's the edit?

[Cyberian]

Thread cleaned up... Please dont quote bad posts, as that just makes for more work... report them.

Carry on....

Thank you,
Cy

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by amenzl

Well just for S*ts and giggles...Delete and recreate the A and CNAME records. Also, reselect default hosted nameservers. I think it's a glitch in their updates. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 I've had this happen before w/ actual sites.

I don't know about S*ts and giggles..
...but that didn't fix it either...and still no word from support

Thanks for the suggestion

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by amenzl

"well, I'll be damned" ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 On one name or many? Check that the staus for the update says 100%?

I only tried it on the one for now,
and yes, said 100% complete

[goodkarmaco]

I am not even going to try this, it seems to not be performing any better than parking with our now regular parking companies. Just might be better with good type ins, but sounds like pages are not looking better and click thrus are low for regular domains. Good luck to others Imo,

[greggish]

Just got disapproved for fotoblog(dot)net. "Disapproval Reason - Policy Violation"

Google's approval system is messed up. There is no policy violation for that domain.

[nielsencl]

I had been looking for this to appear in my AdSense account and just before I was going to go to bed I checked and it was there! So it may help others if I recap what I just spent a couple hours on, BEFORE I found this thread and started at the end and read back about 4-5 pages... :-)

I picked 10 domains that I have parked at TrafficZ. Some are good and others are what would commonly (around here) be considered poor to worthless. ALL have been getting traffic, but my attempts to optimize them and get some clicks have mostly failed. So I jumped at the chance to move them to AFD because they didn't do anything at Parked.com when I tried that for a while. Here is the list and where they are registered:

ordercreditreport.xxx Dotster.com
domainercomplainer.xxx Namecheap
music-download-universe.xxx Domainsite
avandiainjuries.xxx Domainsite
structured-settlement-advice.xxx Godaddy
hand-gun.xxx Godaddy
collect.xxx GoDaddy

The first snag is that Dotster wants $10 a year to let me mess with the DNS and I think the basic reg at Domainsite also wants a fee. Google listed EveryDNS.net as one option so I thought I would try them. Since I have so many registrars (a few more than listed) I thought it would be easier to bulk update domains at the reg home and then point them all to a service like EveryDNS so I can forward them to G. EveryDNS was a little confusing at first(Goodluck newbies...!) but I think I figured it out.

I only set up 7 out of the 10 domains because I first had to find out where they were regged and make a list, then go to each registrar and change the name servers. Since I didn't have too many I only used the bulk update at Domainsite and that worked as expected.

After reading that up to 50% of domains have been rejected for some people, I'm glad I didn't set up the other 3. From now on I may submit them and then change the DNS if they are accepted, or will they reject them if they are still parked elsewhere...? We'll have to see.

Even if I just make a little from these domains it would be good because my business plan calls for me to at least come close to breaking even. I don't know WHY Google didn't put aside a few dozen servers to use for DNS and just let us change the nameservers like other parking services do...? Perhaps it's to weed out the newbies.

So that's my story for what it's worth. I'll post back when I have more news to report.

But I'll just add a couple of thoughts while I'm here. I read a couple of things about rankings dropping, and that's a concern. Once G can positivly ID a parked domain, they could use that to start filtering them out from their search results. I have some domains that have been incubated to have some nice PR and rankings while parked. I generally don't check rankings, but I see them show up here and there. If you think about it, this could be a good thing for G and domainers. While I don't want my domains culled from the SERPS, Google does beause most parking pages are not what anyone would call "good, unique content".

But parking pages have their place, and Google knows thise only too well. So what I expect and hope is that if Google does lower some of the rankings for parked domains when people are doing searches where the seem to be expecting "valid" content, that Google also takes more random traffic, and traffic where people type in something like "What is the best kind of pet grooming brush to buy for my cat?", and calls up my petgroominggoods.com and presents that as one option for the user. In this way G can have it's "good" search results, and we can eat too...! :-)
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579

[Update: I have one active domain, 7 pending, and two were rejected: the 2 that were rejected are avandiainjuries.xxx and hand-gun.xxx. Heck, they are "Verifying Ownership" so maybe they reject if you have domain prvacy turned on...? Some of mine do and some don't. Another pain in the... domain, if that's true and it makes sense because that's what TrafficZ does. I'll have to check.]
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579

[2nd update: I only had one domain with private whois and it wasn't either of the ones that were rejected. I have disabled the privacy for now. The one domain that was approved allows you to add keywords and change colors. So I picked what I think are the best keywords.

[greggish]

Originally Posted by greggish

Just got disapproved for fotoblog(dot)net. "Disapproval Reason - Policy Violation" ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 Google's approval system is messed up. There is no policy violation for that domain.

I just re-submitted it. On the resubmission form there is a field called "reason". I wrote...

Why was this disapproved? "Foto" and "blog" are generic terms. The domain receives consistent type-in traffic mostly from Brazil. As Google should know from Orkut, social networking sites and "foto blogging" are very popular there.

We'll see what happens.

[netmeg]

Quote:

and two were rejected: the 2 that were rejected are avandiainjuries.xxx and hand-gun.xxx.

They might approve those, but I doubt it. One would have TM issues and the other deals with a topic that's against TOS (moreover, you probably wouldn't be able to get ads on it anyway, since AdWords doesn't permit ads relating to firearms)

[greggish]

Originally Posted by amenzl

Mine were never approved until all records had been updated.

Not updating the dns records doesn't cause Google to disapprove the domain. The domain will just remain in the "Pending" status in that case. At least I think so.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579

For most people, like myself, who have domains "disapproved", it was for an alleged "Policy Violation", which Google won't be specific about for each domain.

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by greggish

Not updating the dns records doesn't cause Google to disapprove the domain. The domain will just remain in the "Pending" status in that case. At least I think so. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 For most people, like myself, who have domains "disapproved", it was for an alleged "Policy Violation", which Google won't be specific about for each domain.

So far that has proved true for me also,
I submit the domains and wait, if their going
to be disapproved - it's usually in a few hours.
Then I change the records on the others
that are pending - and they were all approved.
My most recent "policy violation" is Chaz.ca - I did
resubmit it...but still now word!

As for the record issue in my above post- still working on it
I may have to post the godaddy responses if they don't fix it soon!
sad......

[greggish]

Originally Posted by mis_chiff

My most recent "policy violation" is Chaz.ca - I did resubmit it...but still now word!

I haven't had a status change on my disapproved domain fotoblog(dot)net either after I resubmitted it last night. Google says it can take up to 7 days for the resubmission process to complete. The annoying thing about that is that I think the dns has to be set to Google's as soon as you do the re-submit. So now I have to wait maybe as long as a week with a 404 error page on that domain.

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by greggish

I haven't had a status change on my disapproved domain fotoblog(dot)net either after I resubmitted it last night. Google says it can take up to 7 days for the resubmission process to complete. The annoying thing about that is that I think the dns has to be set to Google's as soon as you do the re-submit. So now I have to wait maybe as long as a week with a 404 error page on that domain.

It's been a few days for my resubmission -
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579
I never changed the records to google.
They disapproved it without them being changed.
I've noticed the status will indicate it's waiting
for the zone changes with that question mark.
Otherwise it just gets the boot
Did you read the part about: if your domain is rejected
you can only re-submit it once - or your account is canceled

[greggish]

Originally Posted by mis_chiff

It's been a few days for my resubmission - ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 I never changed the records to google. They disapproved it without them being changed. I've noticed the status will indicate it's waiting for the zone changes with that question mark. Otherwise it just gets the boot Did you read the part about: if your domain is rejected you can only re-submit it once - or your account is canceled

When you did the re-submit, did you write a reason why you think it doesn't violate the policy?

[mis_chiff]

Originally Posted by greggish

When you did the re-submit, did you write a reason why you think it doesn't violate the policy?

Yes, my reason : "Why was this domain rejected?
What policy could it be in violation of?"

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579
Chaz was my fathers nickname (Charles)

[greggish]

I'm hoping to see that the majority of these disapproved domains are approved after the resubmission. The only logical reason I can come up with for most of the rejections that people have reported so far is that Google is solely using a very screwed up automated approval system for the first submit, and no human has actually looked at these names.

Hopefully, a human review will be required for the re-submission process.

If Google had actual human staff making these initial disapprovals they should be fired immediately and replaced with folks that actually have a brain.

[nielsencl]

I urge all to download and make sure you understand the rules about what is not allowed. This is more true for those of you that are not native English speakers and it may save you a lot of wasted time and frustration.

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579
An earlier poster complained about a domain like "Foto blog" that was rejected. This MIGHT be because it's close to the trademarked term of "Fotolog ® is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc." or something else that I did not see. It's up to us to try and figure out some of what is going on, but I think we have enough sharp people here to get a pretty good picture...

To update my story, I now have 7 domains approved since yesterday. 2 were rejected and one is still pending ownership confirmation. I discovered that 3 of my domains still had the default CNAME record at EveryDNS. When I entered the CNAME for some of my domains I missed changing the part for "A" to "CNAME". That caused it to fail and I didn't notice it.

My domains have had about 54 impressions so far today, but no clicks yet.

[greggish]

Originally Posted by nielsencl

An earlier poster complained about a domain like "Foto blog" that was rejected. This MIGHT be because it's close to the trademarked term of "Fotolog ® is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc." or something else that I did not see. It's up to us to try and figure out some of what is going on, but I think we have enough sharp people here to get a pretty good picture...

I agree with you that that might be the reason. But, if that is the reason, it's a really bad reason, and means that Google does not understand trademark law. "Foto" which is short for photograph in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and other languages, and "blog" are generic terms. Millions of people around the world have and maintain their own "foto blogs". Do a search for fotoblog and "foto blog".

If you are a company that has a trademark that is similar to a generic term, that's your problem. Google owns Blogger.com. The word "blogger" has become a generic term. Do you think Google should be able to claim infringement against the website Bloggers.com? Of course not. And trademark law would not allow them to succeed if they tried.

[mis_chiff]

Can't be the word "Foto"
I had FotoShop.ca accepted

[blaknite]

AFD finally showed up in my account today. I'm still looking through my names to see if if I can find one worth trying on afd. I've got lots of adult and foreign stuff that probably won't pass the google test. My adsense account is to valuable to me to risk it trying names that might ruffle some feathers.

I thought I'd point this out from the licence agreement in case any of you missed it: "all queries must originate from individual human end users inputting a URL directly into the address bar of an Internet browser."

Like I said before I expect they will drop you from the serps if you park your domain with google. This caveat from the license agreement basically says they won't pay you for a click unless its true type-in traffic. (no expired SE traffic, no traffic from other SE's, no traffic from backlinks.) Google is fishing for the pure generics here.

[Nem0]

I've added 84 domains to AFD and so far in 4 days I have 518 Impressions and only 2 clicks.

Most of these names are not keyword-type names; most are 5-letter names that were past websites.

So far, ho-hum.

[nielsencl]

I'm not a lawyer, but I think "bloggers" is close enough to "blogger" for infringement, IF the site content also infringes. I found this:

Quote:

Google is a global technology leader which offers Internet related services such as the famous “Google” search engine and the “Blogger” electronic publishing service. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579 Claimant is the owner of the trademark GOOGLE, as well as other trademarks and domain names including, in particular, the trademark BLOGGER, and the domain name <blogger.com> (see Annexes 2 to 6 to the Complaint).

Here. We may not like some of what can be covered under trademark law, but it would be a mistake to underestimate it... :-)

Quote:

I thought I'd point this out from the licence agreement in case any of you missed it: "all queries must originate from individual human end users inputting a URL directly into the address bar of an Internet browser."

I was not able to find that. Can you post a link to the page that has that information??? Thanks!

[newviewit]

Total page impressions: 227
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=541579
Results page impressions: 3
Revenue: $0.8 on 3 clicks

However, those 3 clicks occurred on my first day at Adsense. For the past 3-4 days I have had over 200 page impressions with 0 clicks, $0.

The revenue came from keywords that Adsense says are worth $1-$30/click with active advertisers, but I'm getting something like $0.1-.3/click.

So far the only thing G is registering is clicks made through search type in (result page impressions) and search links on the side. No revenue coming from anything outside of search... why is this? Is anyone getting clicks outside of search?

The click through rate is rock bottom... 1% click through rate. If nobody clicks on ads how is anyone supposed to make any money off of this? I'm willing to give it another week then it's back to parked.