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[jacal1]

Do bots scan parked pages? Is there a simple answer? I have some two-word generics that get about 2-5 hits/day, and I'm wondering how much, if any, of that traffic is non-human.

Thanks!

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[.X.]

Bot do crawl parked pages, But not for long, They hate them, A few impression a month, May be coming from bots on your parking page, Imo

 

[konipro]

I would think after they see no or little content that they move on elsewhere no?

 

[Kate]

Yes the bots index the parked pages. They index most pages even where there are errors. Clearly the parking pages will not rank well but if the keyword is very specific you could be in the first page for google search results.

 

[rudyhernandez]

I agree with sdsinc. Parked pages are indexed and a great specific keyword will pop it to the top of a search query. I'd keep on eye on daily traffic to see if a spike or jump in visitors happens because of a new "crawl" of sites.

 

[.X.]

I would think after they see no or little content that they move on elsewhere no?

Absolutley, They move on, And most usually report back that the name is search engine friendly

Yes the bots index the parked pages. They index most pages even where there are errors. Clearly the parking pages will not rank well but if the keyword is very specific you could be in the first page for google search results.

I disagree, Bots do crawl parking parking pages...yes...They recognize almost immediatly, Parking pages are not Bot friendly, Search engines HATE parking pages, Because they have no content, The releventcy is aweful in most cases, They tend to see them as "link farms" , The bots then report back with negative results, Thus not indexing parking pages. The best way i found to get a domain name that is parked, Indexed in search engine directories, Run the name in the valuation forum here, Post the name, But not the the link to your parking page. That will get your name indexed, But it will never get indexed as the domain name itself, It will be "Cache" indexing, which brings little to no traffic, Google And Yahoo check the top pages indexed daily, You will not find a domain parking page indexed with a high rank, once again, search engines HATE parking pages.

 

[Kate]

For example I own www.teletva.com.
Thus I get traffic from the French looking for teletva in google or yahoo.
Teletva is quite a specific keyword. Just because of the domain I rank well in Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=teletva&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=BE
and I rank well in google too, at least until recently

 

[FPForum]

As everyone has already stated. Yup! the se's will index your page's. Like others have said, if you have a really good keyword it may be possible to see some search engine traffic coming to your parked pages.

 

[jacal1]

Rep to all (that I haven;t given rep to before) - this is very helpful.