Why Google finally says NO to manually redirected traffic + + Storm is brewing...

[mike031]

Why Google finally says NO to manually redirected traffic +++ Shitstorm is brewing as we speak!

Google recently announced that they won’t be accepting anymore redirected traffic to any parked pages which display the Google AdWords PPC inventory. This move is going to have tremendous consequences throughout the entire domain industry come next week. Some parking companies are going to see 50% to 99% losses in revenue… The shakeout will take a few month’s to materialize into a huge shitstorm I predict.

The main reason that Google is requiring people to park their domains using a certain set of provided name servers is to avoid the abuse of fraudsters and scammers from using domains for parking which they do not own. You must be asking yourself… Huh? Well, let me elaborate.

For many many years, just about all parking companies allowed you to manually redirect traffic to a certain lander which either had your unique ID within it and/or domain… All ads clicked on that lander would be credited to your account. So what scammers and fraudsters have been doing is adding domains which they do not own to their accounts, and sending traffic to the provided lander.. What type of traffic exactly? Ghost traffic… Abritrage traffic… Error… Porn… Or of course, the most popular, human clicks AKA click fraud.

...read entire post at http://www.wannadevelop.com/blog/google-domain-parking-companies-click-fraud/

 

[inspirations]

well this is very shocking news........ sad

 

[RazorNF]

Not really "shocking"... Sedo started requiring use of their nameservers some time ago, and more recently, I received notice from DomainSponsor of the same.

In the past, I have used the forwarding option in some cases, so that I can host and verify the traffic myself

If it reduces fraud, than it's a move in the right direction. Even if you think they should have done it ages ago, better late than never.

 

[interestedenough]

Hopefully less fraud will increase value of true clicks. Then it should benefit most.

 

[iowadawg]

I would love to see google just eliminate parked pages period.
No adsense or adwords allowed for a domain that is just parked.

And all companies like clickbank, CJ, etc. do the same.

 

[Nathan]

I would love to see google just eliminate parked pages period.
No adsense or adwords allowed for a domain that is just parked.

And all companies like clickbank, CJ, etc. do the same.

I agree it would actually get domainers to put a site on their domains

Parked pages are so 2010 :wave:

 

[mike031]

I am not for or against parking... Neutral on the case. It does have it's place in our business... But for far too long, it has been abused by fraudsters with the most elaborate scams around, and the parking companies did nothing because all they are worried about is the dollar dollar bills. Don't give a shit about the real domainers.... They just blame others for this and that, and when there are real problems simply look the other way. How convenient

 

[ngenme]

directly parked pages don't do well on search engine.

 

[ngenme]

Mike, besides your own blog, where else do you see this? I am not hearing this news anywhere else.

 

[Witchsoft]

that looks good for me.