opinion Does Parking affect your Domain SEO?

[onlysndp]

I heard from somewhere that parking makes negative impact for seo. It means the one who buys it later has to deal hard for SEO?
Is this true?

 

[Hypersot]

It depends what kind of parking you are referring to,

if you talk about a sales lander similar to Undeveloped's then no, you won't necessarily lose any seo that has been made on the domain as undeveloped provides both https and a customised description which will get indexed.

if you talk about parking for monetisation from various feeds then yes, any work that has been made on the domain will slowly vanish, domain will slowly get de-indexed from google's index, etc.

Someone that's more experienced in seo will probably give you a better answer though

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

No any impact.
Just another myth.

 

[poweredbyme]

Nothing can affect SEO performance of a domain except dropping.
"Nothing" includes parking and redirection (301/302/masking or another technique) to another page/domain.

Because domain means website with no content. SEO is about domains with content. Of course domains without content carry some SEO value depending on age, backlink and former content. You can't increase or decrease that SEO power until you develop that domain with text content. Redirecting (301 redirect) domain A to domain B will transfer SEO power of domain A to domain B. But when you develop domain A with text content on its own internal URL's and remove the 301 redirection to domain B, that transferred power will be transferred back to its original owner, domain A.

In short, whatever you do to your undeveloped domain (except letting it to drop/expire), you can't affect its SEO.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

If no any monetization using Google feed - then you may redirect freely.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

> Parking companies are not using Google AdWords.

They use Google AdSense for Domains.

 

[biggie]

if, a domain is parked, gets traffic and earns revenue..... does it really need seo?

prolly not

though, if a new owner uses it for something unrelated to what visitors were previously looking for,
then they ( the new site) would experience lower conversion rate from that existing traffic.

imo….

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

How about if I redirec the domain to another domain?

To another parked domain?
This is prohibited by Google Terms.

 

[xynames]

ebay.com had no traffic. Then it was acquired and used by eBay, Inc. and traffic went through the roof. Do you think it mattered what was on the site before?

Lot of nonsense being posted here.

Also consider:

Google will not allow ads on pages without real content. Parking companies are not using Google AdWords.

If a lot of people are still going straight to a domain, it will still appear very high in Page Rank, parked or not.

Google did not remove parked domains from searches absolutely, rather - it stated that "In most cases, we prefer not to show them" and that was something they said, in passing, seven years ago, who knows whether they still follow it now.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Google Adsense for Domains was retired as a Google product June 27, 2012.

Yes, this program was stopped for individuals.
But it works for parking companies only.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

The company I park with says No they do not use Google whatsoever. They bring me a couple hundred a month consistently so evidently Google is no be all or end all.

What company?
TheParkingPlace/Redirect???
Yes, they work via ZeroClick model, Google PPC is not used by them.
All others, except Skenzo and DomainAdvertising, are based on AdSense API.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

What sense???
You will not receive any gain, because lack of SEO parameters of your newly created subdomain, so nothing will be inherited.

In other words...
Domain and its subdomain(s) are considered by Google separately/independently in terms of SEO.
Each subdomain has its own SEO parameters. 0 in your case.

 

[onlysndp]

What sense???
You will not receive any gain, because lack of SEO parameters of your newly created subdomain, so nothing will be inherited.

I just saw when I search for "Cheapfly8" in google, it does show the search result of "Cheapfly8.com" but with the content of "Cheapfly8.besmartass.com". So the problem solved!!! I want to redirect because there I made a simple WordPress with an affiliated flight search engine. And I made a contact form for anyone who is interested in buying.

 

[Hypersot]

Not sure I agree that a one page for sale page would be "better" than a parked page with ad links on it. both offer little to no unique content on the page. I think any major change in from the existing content of a domain that is off topic to the previous "keyword theme" of the site would effect or even reset search results after enough time.

The main difference is the customised text I mentioned that one can enter in Undeveloper's lander.

I can only assume that, even a small amount of relevant text in a single page is better than a totally blank page with only ad links.

 

[toughdomains]

I personally have seen very few parked names come up in search results. partly from all the reasons mentioned here. What you do need to consider is the traffic and links already coming into that domain. Unless your making considerable rev from parking ($5 to $50 per month) I think its more important to take advantage of the traffic.
That inlcudes
- a clear way to contact you (make an offer form)
- some customization on the form like a logo or background image and text that is relavant to the domain
- many and clear payment options (escrow, bitcoin, paypal, credit card )
- clear metrics on the domain to help you make the final decision. (what you paid , domain age, .com monthly visits, domain potential etc)
- promoting your names on as many marketplaces as possible.

focus less on seo'ing parked pages and more on promoting the name itself and making it easy to purchase.

 

[onlysndp]

It depends what kind of parking you are referring to,

if you talk about a sales lander similar to Undeveloped's then no, you won't necessarily lose any seo that has been made on the domain as undeveloped provides both https and a customised description which will get indexed.

if you talk about parking for monetisation from various feeds then yes, any work that has been made on the domain will slowly vanish, domain will slowly get de-indexed from google's index, etc.

Someone that's more experienced in seo will probably give you a better answer though

Thanks for the information.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

And again...
In terms of monetization such redirected traffic is invalid and prohibited by Google.
Soon or later your domain will be banned to show Google Ads.

 

[xynames]

No.

The way it works is that a company that wants the ads, uses AdWords. They pay for the PPC. Then the company that wants to place the ads on their domains, uses AdSense - then the AdWords PPC are placed onto the domains.

However, parking companies for their domains do not use any Google ads at all, they have their own system for this sort of thing, which is why I say No - Google ads do not appear on parked pages with no content. (Google Adsense for Domains was retired as a Google product June 27, 2012.)

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

LOL

They all are using Google AdSense XML feed via AdSense API.
+ various ZeroClick networks for Tier2-monetization.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

More details here: https://developers.google.com/adsense/host/become-a-host

 

[xynames]

"Only websites with over 100,000 daily page views across user pages are eligible to participate in the AdSense Host API program."

There are a lot of assumptions being made, and as someone else posted: "Perhaps they are big enough that they have come to some arrangement with Google. Perhaps they are a premium publisher. Perhaps the ads are not Google ads at all."

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I already aswered above.
If any additional questions - ask Bodis/ParkingCrew/Voodoo etc. - and they will confirm the same.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

There is also Yahoo feed.
But it is unpopular, only DomainAdvertising and Skenzo use it.

 

[xynames]

The company I park with says No they do not use Google whatsoever. They bring me a couple hundred a month consistently so evidently Google is no be all or end all.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Who still doesn't understand English...
This is from my archived conversation of 2015 with Matt (Bodis founder and CEO):

Almost all the tens of thousands of our users with the exception of a handful are on the Google setup. We won't redesign our sign up page now as we are mainly focused on the Google side of monetization.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I have this recently bought Domain "Cheapfly8.com" and I wanna sell it. But until I sell I just don't wanna park but rather I wanna use it. I have one Domain with hosting "Besmartass.com", I made one subdomain "Cheapfly8.besmartass.com" and redirected the main domain to it. I managed to make the Sitemap too. I am just curious if I can make my main Domain SEO optimized just by redirecting it to other managed Website.

What sense???
You will not receive any gain, because lack of SEO parameters of your newly created subdomain, so nothing will be inherited.