Comments on: Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?

By: Curly

Curly — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:40:50 +0000

Adsense garbage is even worse and is cluttering the Internet. Google is reponsible for more garbage than any other single entity online. There are billions of pages of grabage created soley for adsense revenue.

And you have their PR man talking about balckhat spam. It is only spam when Google aren’t making money from it.

By: cliff

cliff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:27:26 +0000

Major advertisters want to play 5 second audio ad on your website(s)
and Parked Domain Pages
Get Paid Per Visitor You Get To Your Website(s)
1> Yes you get Paid per visitor you get to your website whether it is 1 or 1 million visitors or more…

2> 100% FREE Opportunity.

3> Limited time Opportunity.

4> we only deliver ads that are directly related to the contextual nature of your site.

5> No hate, pornographic, or subversive ads .

6> Does Not Take Visitors Away From Your Website(s).

7> No Banner ads or Links no pop-up or pop-under ads to put on your website(s) for you to get paid.

8> No graphic or text ads to put
on your website(s) for you to get paid.

9> No Action Required From the Visitor for you to get paid.

10> Yes you get Paid per visitor you get to your website whether it is 1 or 1 million visitors or more…

Get paid for every visitor to your website(s).
How many visitors do you get?
paid4visitors.info

By: cliff

cliff — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:52:56 +0000

I represent a major online advertising company that specializes in a new form of Internet advertising . I am interested in buying advertising on your website and all your park domain names on an ongoing basis, that GURARANTEES that you will get a 100% conversion rate on 100% of your website traffic.
Your website appears to be running ads on some of your pages and we want to pay you a fee for every visitor you receive and GURARNTEE that you will get a 100% conversion rate on 100% of your website traffic. I would like to fill you in on more details. Are you the correct contact in regard to business development for your website?
Like I said we want to pay you a fee for every visitor you receive on your website and all your park domain names.
If you need more details please visit us at tinyurl.com/3yp4yr
Or anyone that has a website
THANK YOU

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:00:15 +0000

Hi Rose. Right, you run 2 campaigns with identical ad groups (except for different tracking URLs + different bids):
1) Google only w/ high bids
2) Google + Search network w/ low bids

Since ad rank is CPC x QS, identical ads should have similar QS. Therefore, CPC is the overriding factor and keyword ads in campaign #1 will outrank keyword ads in campaign #2 and display on Google. Granted, there will be exceptions where a high CTR for a particular keyword messes this up. But, it’s a pretty reliable way to achieve the goal of separate ads for Google only vs Search network.

By: Rose Sylvia

Rose Sylvia — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:58:58 +0000

Also, Google is not “working to keep these guys away”. Google has a formal offering called Google Adsense for Domains which is explained at http://www.google.com/domainpark/. The immediate question that comes to mind is if they named it “Adsense for Domains” why aren’t they displaying content ads on these sites instead of search ads?

By: Rose Sylvia

Rose Sylvia — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:53:05 +0000

I just tested the idea of running separate campaigns on Google Search only and Google’s Search Partner Network. You can’t opt out of Google Search and select Google’s Search Network.

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:43:37 +0000

What does direct navigation to major brand sites have to do with Google AdWords search network traffic from coming from searchportal.information.com?

By: andy

andy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:22:03 +0000

Loren,

your question above: what kind of conversions, if any, are coming from this traffic?

ClickZ put the following article out last January and supports the fact that direct navigation traffic converts and converts quite well.

“The third, and best-converting group, is made up of people who know what they’re looking for, and know where they want to shop to get it. These users arrive at a site via direct navigation, by typing in the site’s name or using a bookmark. These kinds of users converted almost twice as well as those using search engine links, with a 4.23-percent conversion rate”

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3581646

By: Dr Altaf

Dr Altaf — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:47:43 +0000

Thanks Richard and everybody for opening our eyes. Until now we remained ignornat how adwords can be scams. Cannot believe it!
I hosted many of my domains with one hosting co. Added googleadsense ads, wished to go for google adwords , yahoo pub.net. etc. what should I do? Should I try designimports.com? How to rely upon them too. Please advise best solution.
Regards,
Dr. Altaf

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:52:22 +0000

Anthony, thanks for posting an example searchportal.information.com site. Here’s why I wouldn’t want this sort of a site to show Google PPC search engine ads:
1) Annoying popups
2) Not a search engine
3) Visitors follow navigation links

I don’t have a problem with parked domains. I have a problem with parked domains being a part of the AdWords Search network. If they’re on the Content network, I could probably live with that. It’d be more transparent, though, if Google had a Domain network distribution option. If these sites really do convert, advertisers will opt in.

I want the Search network to be pure search engines. That’s what I’m buying on behalf of my clients. I don’t want to mix non-search engine ads with search engine ads. I don’t buy the argument that direct navigation is equivalent to search. If I’m buying search engine advertising, I want to have those ads distributed on nothing but actual search engines.

My 3rd point is probably the most important in this case. Every single instance of referrals from searchportal.information.com I’m seeing are coming from people somehow getting to a parked domain site and then clicking on navigation links. Then, they see the ads. That’s completely different from someone actively typing keywords into a search box and seeing ads. Clicking on navigation links and then seeing ads is more like contextual advertising than search engine advertising. That’s not just IMHO – that’s from looking at the behavior both in terms of tracing visit paths through sites and tracking conversions.