Rumors flew last month in July about possible plans by Google to eliminate domain parking for domains that do not get type-in traffic. Julia Mackenzie reported that Google will only serve parking ads to domains it thinks to be capable of receiving type-in traffic and conversions. According to MacKenzie Google's new system "will assess all domains calling their parking feed and immediately give domains either a “pass” or a “fail” score. Meaning that if Google decide your domain has little chance of type-in traffic or if it scores low on conversions, it won't serve you a parking feed." How will this affect domain owners?
A lot depends on how high they set the bar. If the bar is set high, allowing parking income only on one-word generics, for example, then Google-based domain parking is over for a majority of domain owners. If the bar is set relatively low, allowing ads to be served on 2-word keyword .coms that get small amounts of genuine type-in traffic, then this may actually help most domain owners. Parking feeds will disappear from long-hyphenated domains and nonsense domains, while maintaining this source of income for legitimate lower-volume domains.Source: Reprinted with Permission by Leonard Holmes - Original Namemonetizer Post - Posted by Roland G. Buck - Chief Editor on August 28th, 2008 Chief Editor