PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[Jasdon]

What's a widget? Is that one of those things that takes stickers off of car windows?

Donny

Er....a female midget?

 

[Kenny]

Er....a female midget?

Thats a gidget

 

[Shasta]

Gidget the midget used a gadget to install a Feezilla widget without a fidget on her parked page.

FEEDZILLA WIDGET
Add free news stories to your site and blog.
Add constantly updated quality news stories to your website and blog effortlessly with our free news widgets.

• No registration required.
• Thousands of news sources and pre-defined categories.
• Build unique widgets using a news search engine.
• Content is fully customizable.
• Content is automatically updated once an hour.
• No technical skills required.
• Improve the online experience of your audience.
• Javascript, ASP and PHP code available.

 

[shredbook03]

Unlike feedzilla our widget delivers full length articles directly to your site/domain from any RSS feed you specify.

 

[Donny]

shredbook03 - Examples always help.

Donny

 

[Varon]

Unlike feedzilla our widget delivers full length articles directly to your site/domain from any RSS feed you specify.

Looking at how whypark ended up getting its sites deindexed by google, due to duplicate content from article feeds, I think its better to retain a parked page, either with no content and just use the meta description and title to some advantage, or better still, create your own original content. That would atleast help your parked page get indexed to some extent (atleast for now). It's a much better situation than getting totally off the SE indexing radar due to duplicated content.

 

[shredbook03]

Varon...the way we display our articles is through backend javacsript. search engines cannot access this material. All search engines can index is the snippet of javascript we give you to embed on your domain.

 

[Kenny]

shredbook03 - Examples always help.

Donny

^^^^^

 

[shredbook03]

^^^^^

I'm sorry I cannot publicly disclose such info. But if you are interested in testing this device on your domain please PM me and I will provide more info and links.

Thanks!

 

[Fragger]

Personally, I think google frowns upon using other people's content on your pages... I think they even frown upon it more than parked pages. And in the spirit of keeping the domains that ARE indexed by google to remain that way.... why would anyone want to risk getting de-indexed with duplicate content.

 

[shredbook03]

I agree fragger. Putting duplicate articles directly on your parked page is risky. However by using our widget the content streams in from our servers and therefore will have NOTHING to do with google's indexing. Putting our widget on your domain is like embedding a mini site on your sidebar. There is literally no way for google to index these articles. Please PM to see examples.

 

[netmeg]

There is literally no way for google to index these articles. Please PM to see examples.

In the first place, the only reason to do it would be for search engine reasons - otherwise, you might as well just develop a site with unique content. If you add it to a parked page, then you risk distracting the viewer who will not then click on the ads.

In the second place, such behavior is considered 'cloaking' and is specifically against Google's Webmaster Guidelines, and as soon as they figure it out (and Google *always* figures it out) you can pretty much guarantee your domain will be out the index, permanently. If you're getting purely type in traffic, then that might not matter to you.

Cloaking, sneaky Javascript redirects, and doorway pages

Cloaking

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to users and search engines. Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index.

Some examples of cloaking include:

• Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
• Serving different content to search engines than to users.

 

[shredbook03]

Does anyone know from experience how integrating RSS articles in a parked domain affects CTR's? or revenue?

 

[whitebark]

Does anyone know from experience how integrating RSS articles in a parked domain affects CTR's? or revenue?

it's called whypark. they had many of their domains dropped from google - that ought to kill revenue...

 

[Donny]

Based on extensive testing we have done internally anything new added to a page is just a distraction for the surfers. 99.5% of the time you add rss feeds or other content mainly for the search engines more than you do for the surfers. So something like a javascript or flash widget doesn't really help with the search engines. But if a surfer finds it on the page, then it may be helpful, but that doesn't mean anybody will make any additional money. Except for usually the owner of the widget.

Donny

 

[shredbook03]

Thanks Donny thats helpful.

Have you guys tested full length articles on domains?

and if you have done this how negatively does it affect CTR's?

 

[PowerUp]

Could anyone point me to a tutorial or steps on adding an affiliate banner on the parked page? Thank you.

 

[copper]

Could anyone point me to a tutorial or steps on adding an affiliate banner on the parked page? Thank you.

Go to your domain edit page.
Scroll down to bottom of that page.
Click on square button next to "Custom Content".
This will open up custom content editor window.

To add affiliate banner...
Click on menu icon that look like computer monitor on top.
This will give you popup window.
Type in your URL for your banner image.
Click "Insert" button.
Now, you should see banner image.
Click the banner one time.
Click menu icon that look like chain (unbroken chain) on top.
Type in your affiliate URL.
Click "Insert" button.

Here is one of my site with banner.
It's not affiliate banner, but, it should work same.
http://www.lensfitter.com/

 

[Donny]

copper - Very nice.

Donny

 

[PowerUp]

Thank you copper. Rep +