r u penalized by google for parking domain?

[webdomainer]

does google penalize a domain, for being parked ? at a traditional parking company with only text link content and one picture?

thinking of developing some domains as minisites and am wondering whether domains that i have parked previously will be penalized in google for having been recently previously parked.

tx
tom

 

[copper]

Most of my domains are being parked until it's developed.
I haven't noticed any penalties.

 

[south]

Most of my domains are being parked until it's developed.
I haven't noticed any penalties.

Ditto to that. Choose your keywords & description carefully, so you can re-use them when you develop it & make it a smooth transition.

 

[Vinnee]

The reach for Google (ppc in general) is strong, they're not interested in penalizing parked domains. If they were, you would see a steep decrease in their stock price. Parked is fine and not considered spam, however, you don't necessarily gain quality points for page rank. The prior post is correct, choose good keywords; choose a good title (unique) and good description so that when you develop a mini site, it won't shock the rankings. Transition is key when going from parked to developed web site. Of course, this is going in the direction that you are thinking long term.

 

[HuntingMoon]

even if the name was blocked, you can get it unblocked and re-indexed if you contact google.

& to answer your question, in our experience google does not give very favorable positions to parked domains. whether that is a penalty, or just a good algorithm is a matter of opinion...

 

[james2002]

No. Google even offers parking.

 

[joess83]

even if the name was blocked, you can get it unblocked and re-indexed if you contact google.

How does one know if Google has blocked a domain name? Is there an easy way to find out?

 

[tristanperry]

How does one know if Google has blocked a domain name? Is there an easy way to find out?

It's really just if you search for your site (i.e. by typing in your domain via Google) and nothing comes up. Or, say, you used to have 1,000 pages (if it was a big site) coming up, and now it's much less than that showing up, etc.