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.

 

[Babyfacemagee]

Google Juggernaut

At first glance, it looks to be a game changer. Sounds to me google is gunning for all the parking companies. For us domain holders, why would we want to give a % of our take to parked.com or sedo etc etc if we can keep 100% of our earnings through our own adsense account?

The parking companies will be forced to offer much better templates, customization features and other value-added services in order to compete imo. The "whypark" model might become more the norm as adding feeds, promotion and mini-site development might be the only way to upstage a google-parking juggernaut.

The only exception is adult domains which google seems not be interested in so there will be opportunity there for niche parking.

Regardless, this should be interesting. Interested in hearing other's thoughts on this.

BFM

 

[DN BROKER]

Adsense for Domains Opening Up

Adsense for Domains Opening Up
Looks like Adsense for domains is opening up:

Posted By Inside AdSense Team to Inside AdSense at 12/11/2008 09:08:00 A

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.

Posted by Loren Donelson - Product Manager, AdSense for Domains

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

 

[netmeg]

Well, yes and no. Haven't thought it out much yet. Some niches do better in Yahoo than Google (that's true on the AdWords side too) The AdWords advertisers are not going to be terribly happy about it unless it brings conversions - domain parking can be blocked, but they don't make it easy. AdSense TOS is much stricter than many parking companies' TOS from what I can tell; I don't think I'd be able to put my domains with the words "prescriptions" and "prescriptiondrugs" in them.

We'll have to see how this all shakes out.

 

[dmi]

Google is expanding everywhere... I saw this coming.

It'll be tough for other parking companies, definitely.

 

[netmeg]

Also makes me wonder - if Google now has a financial stake in a bunch more parked domains, does that mean that more of them are going to start showing up in the SERPs again? Will they appear to give preference to domains in their own program? Gosh, every time I think of one question, I think of five more.

 

[maoam]

Only available for North American users now.

Does anyone have a screen shot to share of how the parked Google page looks like?

 

[eFingerz]

wow sounds great
cant wait !
i wonder what the requirements are?
and when will it be available?
will we have to sign up or will it just be in our current adsense account ?

 

[Pound]

Adsense For Domains - The End of Parking?

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.

Source: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

 

[Kenny]

Extending AdSense for domains to all publishers

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

 

[henniemeijer]

x

 

[johname]

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

Its in AdSense Setup



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[v5x]

When I beta tested it, I thought 'Great, I can cut out the middle man!' (the parking company) and get 100% rev straight from Google AFD. But (in my experience) the RPC is alot lower to that of parking companies who use the Google AFD feed. CTR was also very low, perhaps due to very average looking landers. I think large parking companies must levarage a much greater rev share from Google and pass it on to us.

Like always, I think some portfolios will perform better with AFD and some not.

At the moment:
All you can customize on the landers is colors.
You can use keyword hints but these don't always seem to return the related ads.
You can't edit/change your own custom related keywords.

See: https://www.google.com/adsense/supp...&sourceid=aso&subid=ww-ww-et-asui&medium=link

 

[netmeg]

Nope, it's not in MY account yet. Neither is Analytics for AdSense, and they've been rolling that out slowly for several months.

I get all kinds of stuff on the AdWords side; advanced notices, beta versions of stuff, etc. For AdSense - I tend to be low meg on the totem pole.

 

[guarddragon]

Interesting. Many thanks!

 

[nicedomains]

Wow! Great find Netmeg..

I would be happy to park my domains with adsense, my current adsense clicks vs other parking companies are MUCH better. The parking companies are going to get what they had coming.. if this is a hit they will fall flat on their faces and I won't be there to help them up. They must be crapping their pants right now.. Hmm now I bet they are wishing they would have stopped paying .01 - .02 cents per click while keeping who knows how much...

[edit] Not saying google is a saint or anything coming to the domainers ppc rescue, just basing my reaction upon many months of being paid squat by sedo, parked, etc..

 

[guarddragon]

TY! Interesting!

 

[advaita]

Sounds like big news to me - I'm surprised there hasn't been more adverising of it,or maybe it's just me that hasn't been keeping in touch.

Can anyone show a page of what there new Adsense for Domains look like? I'm not in the US so it won't affect me for a while but it 'd be good to see what one looks like. I would imagine parking companies will be worried.

A total about-face by Google of course, but maybe this was their long-term plan all along, destroy parking companies then move in and snap up all that doosh that's lying about in advertisers bank balances.

 

[Mark]

It is in my account - But seems to have pretty limited functions so far.

+ Add new domains | AdSense for domains quick start guide | Your unique identifier is: *********************
Active (0) Pending (0) Disapproved (0) All (0)

They do have an approval process for each domain also.

 

[BizBot]

Great news but not in my account yet.

 

[tetrapak]

Great stuff, hope they will expand their domain parking service to other countries!

 

[netmeg]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more adverising of it,or maybe it's just me that hasn't been keeping in touch.

No, there hasn't been. It was just announced today. The advertisers are gonna SCREAM.

Too early to tell if it's good news or not. As with most things, I expect it will be good and bad. Need to try it out, and see the ramifications, and the trickle effect on other parking companies, the SERPs, the advertisers, etc etc.

 

[cancerian]

Good news

Thanks for sharing.

 

[notlikeyou]

Quick start guide

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100301

 

[gazzip]

Wow, Google does parking !

This has been reported on a few blogs shown on domaining.com

Extending AdSense for domains to all publishers
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.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

Hmmm, how quick things can change !

check it out



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