Comments on: Parked Domains Will Make Google Irrelevant http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/ My rants and raves about life as a coder. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:42:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: xhydra http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-97 xhydra Wed, 21 May 2008 13:36:39 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-97 fast forward to 2008 Google's results pages are so clean now. I hardly hit any parked ad pages or even scrapper sites when I use google. Well done GOOG fast forward to 2008
Google’s results pages are so clean now. I hardly hit any parked ad pages or even scrapper sites when I use google.

Well done GOOG

]]> By: Ralph http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-21 Ralph Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:27:01 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-21 @Neil Dickson: Wow! You are correct! I guess this entry provided a more relevant result. :-) @Neil Dickson:

Wow! You are correct! I guess this entry provided a more relevant result. :-)

]]> By: Neil Dickson http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-20 Neil Dickson Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:41:47 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-20 The search above no longer shows the parked domains at the top. In fact this blog post is pretty high up there. :D The search above no longer shows the parked domains at the top. In fact this blog post is pretty high up there. :D

]]> By: Ralph http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-18 Ralph Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:02:48 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-18 @bleak247: There is no beef about SEO, especially if there is usable content. If a site has usable content, by all means the site should maximize their potential. My point was that these parked domains are containers for advertising. They have no usable content. They solely exist to measure how much demand there is for the domain name, and the owners can flip it for profit. What irks me the most is that Google is counting these leeches as relevant results. @bleak247:

There is no beef about SEO, especially if there is usable content. If a site has usable content, by all means the site should maximize their potential. My point was that these parked domains are containers for advertising. They have no usable content. They solely exist to measure how much demand there is for the domain name, and the owners can flip it for profit. What irks me the most is that Google is counting these leeches as relevant results.

]]> By: bleak247 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-17 bleak247 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:50:29 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-17 I hate when people associate SEO with SPAM. A good SEO just follows Search Engine Guidelines on how to build a quality site that Search Engines Understand. Obviously, there are people looking to make a quick buck who abuse the heck out of these guidelines and find loopholes that get them to the top. The reason Google seems to have some bad results is because they command a much greater market share, and SPAMMERS focus their efforts there. As soon as searchers move to a new platform within weeks these other search engines will be full of SPAM as well. Don't blame SEO, blame D-Bags who abuse the knowledge. I hate when people associate SEO with SPAM. A good SEO just follows Search Engine Guidelines on how to build a quality site that Search Engines Understand. Obviously, there are people looking to make a quick buck who abuse the heck out of these guidelines and find loopholes that get them to the top. The reason Google seems to have some bad results is because they command a much greater market share, and SPAMMERS focus their efforts there. As soon as searchers move to a new platform within weeks these other search engines will be full of SPAM as well. Don’t blame SEO, blame D-Bags who abuse the knowledge.

]]> By: Baby Milo http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-16 Baby Milo Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:20:12 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-16 Being heavily involved in SEO myself - lets say Google is one of the easiest search engines to manipulate. Maybe its because I only focus on this search engine though... the others just dont matter to me. Being heavily involved in SEO myself – lets say Google is one of the easiest search engines to manipulate. Maybe its because I only focus on this search engine though… the others just dont matter to me.

]]> By: Mike http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-15 Mike Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:43:06 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-15 I have noticed the same thing with google, and on top of being irrelevant to the search, I have come accross sites I don't go visit. How would you like to be looking for a metal sleigh bed and end up in a porn site, and trust me there was no sleigh bed on the page that pulled up. Thank goodness I got the window shut before my kids walked up. I have noticed the same thing with google, and on top of being irrelevant to the search, I have come accross sites I don’t go visit. How would you like to be looking for a metal sleigh bed and end up in a porn site, and trust me there was no sleigh bed on the page that pulled up. Thank goodness I got the window shut before my kids walked up.

]]> By: sketching http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-14 sketching Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:34:32 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-14 Thank you for the informative post. Parked domains are becoming a contentious problem for search engines. Its very odd. the parked domains are nothing but link farms but yet they are usually in the top results. Most of the time however they will have domain names that just spell 'Parked domain'. Thank you for the informative post. Parked domains are becoming a contentious problem for search engines. Its very odd. the parked domains are nothing but link farms but yet they are usually in the top results. Most of the time however they will have domain names that just spell ‘Parked domain’.

]]> By: Autocrat http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-12 Autocrat Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:32:24 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-12 Not a suprise really. Google is rapidly developing the same image/reputation that companies like MicroSoft get... they are big, they do a lot of things... an when they stuff up we view it as unacceptable as we expect better from them. I disagree with ... TME ... on the idea that the "obscure" is likely to return less filterd results. Either it's a case of "no-bias", as google to not apply any priority over content types... orthat due to it's obscurity and smaller result range, by simple ration Google should have found them and removedas it has less to go through. I'm not one to agree wtih knocking the big boys as their big (which is a common social trait)... but I do beliee in the idea that if you have a lot of users and make the claims that they do, they should damn well stick to them. Permitting Parked domains to carry specialised adverts when they are blatantly Advert-spree sites is disgusting. So much for Google doing the job of finding relevant results. They have obviously opted for the "more money" choice over the "this is what you wanted" option!. May be we should call it "boo-gle" and bouycot :D Not a suprise really.
Google is rapidly developing the same image/reputation that companies like MicroSoft get… they are big, they do a lot of things… an when they stuff up we view it as unacceptable as we expect better from them.

I disagree with … TME … on the idea that the “obscure” is likely to return less filterd results. Either it’s a case of “no-bias”, as google to not apply any priority over content types… orthat due to it’s obscurity and smaller result range, by simple ration Google should have found them and removedas it has less to go through.

I’m not one to agree wtih knocking the big boys as their big (which is a common social trait)… but I do beliee in the idea that if you have a lot of users and make the claims that they do, they should damn well stick to them.

Permitting Parked domains to carry specialised adverts when they are blatantly Advert-spree sites is disgusting.
So much for Google doing the job of finding relevant results.
They have obviously opted for the “more money” choice over the “this is what you wanted” option!.

May be we should call it “boo-gle” and bouycot :D

]]> By: ジェイソン (Jason) http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-11 ジェイソン (Jason) Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:43:47 +0000 http://coderz4life.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/parked-domains-will-make-google-irrelevant/#comment-11 How is "modular dresser drawers" obscure? It sounds pretty darned specific to me. That said, I've also noticed that parked domains are starting to rank much higher in the Google results. A few months back I did some digging into this phenomenon (because my boss at the time wanted the company website to appear higher when someone typed specific keywords) and it appears that many of these parked domains have decent Google PR's thanks to links from other parked domains. It's chains upon chains upon chains of spam sites that look real to the GoogleBot and create great PR scores (between 3 and 5 on average, depending on who owns the domains) and lots of random traffic. Once the sites gain enough value (PR, keywords, domain uniqueness, etc.), they go up on the block to the highest bidder :???: Kinda makes me wish I had $20,000 in extra cash lying around to do the very same thing.... How is “modular dresser drawers” obscure? It sounds pretty darned specific to me. That said, I’ve also noticed that parked domains are starting to rank much higher in the Google results.

A few months back I did some digging into this phenomenon (because my boss at the time wanted the company website to appear higher when someone typed specific keywords) and it appears that many of these parked domains have decent Google PR’s thanks to links from other parked domains. It’s chains upon chains upon chains of spam sites that look real to the GoogleBot and create great PR scores (between 3 and 5 on average, depending on who owns the domains) and lots of random traffic. Once the sites gain enough value (PR, keywords, domain uniqueness, etc.), they go up on the block to the highest bidder :???:

Kinda makes me wish I had $20,000 in extra cash lying around to do the very same thing….

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