Linking to parked domains a no-no

[Phronesis]

There's a lot of links to parked pages on NP in peoples' signatures. Since most people don't actually read the T&C at their PPC company, I thought I'd put a snippet from Sedo's below.

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COMMITTING ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PROHIBITED ACTIONS CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR IMMEDIATE TERMINATION FROM THE PARKING PROGRAM AND FORFEITURE OF ANY ACCUMULATED EARNINGS WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. PLEASE READ AND OBEY THESE RULES!


Participant may not click on advertising links displayed on Participant's own domain names, nor ask friends, family, or others to do so.

Participant may not beg, ask, entice, or incentivize visitors into clicking on advertising links.

Participant may not re-direct traffic to Participant’s parked domain name. This prohibition extends to traffic redirected from other domain names, and purchased traffic such as pop-under or exit traffic. Each domain name must be parked separately.

Participant may not display Participant’s parked page as a pop-under or pop-up window without prior written approval from Sedo.

Participant may not categorize domain names in unrelated categories or specify an incorrect language parameter. Participant may not submit advertising keywords that are unrelated to the subject area of the domain name.

Participant may not generate traffic to Participant's domain name(s) or clicks on advertising links by any of the following methods: listings on newsgroups or discussion boards (with the exception of "domain for sale" postings), bulk emailing, PPC or banner advertisements, ICQ postings, or chat room/IRC postings, iframes, zero pixel frames, hitbots, clickbots, spiders, CGI scripts, java-scripts, or any other similar method.

Participant may not modify the Parking Program page or code in any way without prior approval. Only clicks originating from an unmodified, Parking Program-served parking page will be considered valid. Participant may not place the Parking Program page within a frame without prior written approval from Sedo.

Participant may not mislead visitors into believing that he/she will receive anything other than an internet search by clicking on a text link or search box.

Referring pages must not be password protected in any way.

Sedo reserves the right to terminate your Parking Program account if it is idle for more than one month.

Inability to comply with any of the terms of the User Agreement or the Parking Program Rules will forfeit any unpaid earnings and result in the termination of Participant’s Parking Program account. Further legal action may be taken in response to such violations as well.

 

[Devil_Dog]

Interesting.

 

[Fleege]

Excellent. Very needed. We need to safegueard this industry.

Domain parking is a privilege - We must all fight fraud to protect our advertsisers which ultimately protect us.

I'm glad you posted this. I often times have a hard time even finding the terms after creating an account. I think all parking service providers should make it more clear what is ok - what is wanted and what is not ok.

MY personal opinion and One that I would one want to act on is to create a domain parking service that would only pay out if the clicks actaully generated sales - just like affiliate marketing click payouts work.

This way it would be up to the domain owner how much traffic they wanted so send and HOW.

Thanks REP ADDED!

www.DomainParkingGuru.com - Proper Domain Parking Crusader

 

[2knew]

I guess not too many of us read those PPC agreements, eh?

Take a good look at the "NP-FOR-CLICKS" section of this forum. A few of the entries will invariably be SEDO parking pages.

Buying traffic for parked domains with NP is a bad idea IMHO. It's not good for the industry, not good for the namepros reputation and won't be good for the peeps doing it if SEDO ever analyzes their traffic.

Just another reason you can't trust any traffic stats you didn't compile yourself..

 

[Fleege]

but what if you buy a domain that has a ton links to it and you dont know where all those links are ... are you liable?

 

[2knew]

but what if you buy a domain that has a ton links to it and you dont know where all those links are ... are you liable?

I doub't very much you'd be held to account for that. I have parked domains with many old inbound links and have never heard a peep about the traffic. It makes the domain more valuable and more likely to sell IMHO, so I expect the companies like SEDO don't care.

I think the difference being that they are old links and no one is actively driving traffic to the park page to inflate clicks or impressions. If I bought one of the domains currently being "pumped" I'd be reallly annoyed to find out the traffic stats were all due to PPC or link farming.

 

[Phronesis]

but what if you buy a domain that has a ton links to it and you dont know where all those links are ... are you liable?

Apparently yes. Read this: Linking to other domain/domain related forums isn't allowed.

 

[2knew]

Apparently yes. Read this: Linking to other domain/domain related forums isn't allowed.

The SEDO rep in that thread says:

If its not from type in sources then it has to be coming from acceptable links either through natural search queries, directory listings, or other past development that leads targeted traffic to the domain.

I still think you're O.K. so long as you don't push traffic to the domain. Clarification would be nice, though.

There is at least on SEDO rep on this board (Mara). Don't recall her screen-name or I'd PM her this thread for clarification. Anyone?

 

[Dannoth]

Interesting, I never knew about that. So i guess this applys to NP Pay per clicks too, i have seen many of these!