Google hates parking pages

[DomainMagnate]

Just a little experiment I did.

I had a simple adsense site up on some domain and it ranked #1 for certain keyword. So I decided to park it and see how much it will make on parked.com - 5 days later, after the cache updated, the site lost its rankings and was nowhere in first two pages in google for the keyword.
So couple days ago I put up the site again and it's ranking on the first spot for that keyword again

Just to show how much google hates parking, I'm sure you were noticing similar things.

~MG

[dcristo]

Yeah, to be expected. You can't really say parking pages are relevant results.

[DomainingCom]

How do you want a page you changed the content continue being ranked for the same keyword and/or at the same position?

This is called SEO and has no relationship with parking.

Now that's true some parking services are more SEO friendly then others.

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[fpforum]

I would agree, it's not too surprising. How many times do you do a google search and click the first page only to see a parked page? not very often. I think the best idea is to put a little content up with some adsense and go that route.

[DomainMagnate]

heh of course it's not surprising for anyone who has at least a subtle idea of what is SEO, but many people don't

cybertonic, at least read my post till the end before commenting and you contradict yourself..

~MG

[_Rian]

I can fully confirm that i think. Alot of domains i used to have own content on were just moved out of the index after i changed nameservers to this well known parking service* (to not call out any name now)

..But i wouldn't say this is because google* is getting evil now or anything, since most of the parking services even use google's own PPC feed anyway.. it's rather because most of the parking pages just share the same pattern of:

• just affiliate url's
• missing overall content
• wrong/missing doctype
• unified title
• spammy meta decription,
• etc etc

and there is just no reason that would justify excluding these domains from google's overall quality ranking or preferring adsense feeded sites above any other site that is not using adsense. Everything else could be considered as 'google beeing evil', so they just rank domains based on relvancy and content quality.

There is something new on the horizon though.. read my sig

[Arragon]

you really need a good content site these days, traditional parking just doesn't work anymore!! I can volunteer on seo aspect since I am undertaking an internet marketing course and a seo course (tutor-graded), just PM if you need help. one example, that i know seo is my website, see the affordable Hosting link in my signature, and tried to type "affordable hosting hong kong" on google.com to see my ranking result.

[DomainingCom]

I don't think I am contradicting myself or it's the fault of my bad english.

What I wanted to say is your experiment cannot be used as a way to prove Google don't like parked pages.
Simply because the content is no longer the same in your experiment and content is king in SEO.

Now, YES I share with you that Google as any search engine don't like parked pages and it's NORMAL.

If you want to benefit of search engines traffic you must serve sponsored links through XML or at least don't use parking companies that ask you to change the DNS to their static servers (SoldNames.com for example distinguish sites vs parked pages thanks to the DNS checking ... its' easy).

Even made for AdSense sites are detected by Google (at least the most basic ones) and penalized.

All the challenge of search engines is filter the crap to show the information the most accurate and valuable. It's not an easy task...

[_Rian]

But content isn't everything though. I have domains with about 3000-5000+ indexed pages in google that don't even get traffic just because of missing backlinks. But with just a few backlinks (i.e. ranking and se traffic at all), content is a big multiplicator for all sorts of keyphrases. This way -taken to a chessgame-, content is indeed "king", but backlinks can be seen as "pawns" then

[scottle]

I have parked sites, content sites, etc. & I've found that content sites with Adsense tend to pay less than parked sites. I've used the same sites to experiment. I have a content site that has been on the first page of Google for almost a year ( I parked it for 2 months but the traffic really dropped off) however, the income per click was higher being parked than on the first page of Google. I went back to the content site only because the affiliate revenue was better than the parked revenue. But I'm no longer much a fan of affiliate programs as the revenue on very targeted sites seems to have dropped off this year.

So I continue to experiment.

[Yaffiliate]

Scottle you nailed it... Many content sites with adsense pay less than parking (which is messed up when you think about it) but it makes testing a necessity.

[_Rian]

Scottle you nailed it... Many content sites with adsense pay less than parking (which is messed up when you think about it) but it makes testing a necessity.

Well, i'd say CTR* depends on the layout.. that is valid for both, parking and content websites. But most parking layouts are so well known, even grandma's avoid clicking links on them. Although, most parking services do a better job in keyword research which results in more relevant ads then the average "mini-site creator" is able to get onto his sites. But i don't think
any parking gets you a bigger share of the cake then adsense (etc.) directly.. and i never got any clicks above $1.50 through ANY parking.

99% of all parking pages still have a bad seo-footprint and ZERO content though