SOrry guys I just had to come on here and rant about some MFAs I've been coming across. Seems like when I have an idea for a marketable site and good name it is already taken. I go to the site kinda excited to see what someone else did with the domain.... but find no content, no original ideas, just adsense and other search. Sorry if I wasted your time with this post but ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH
Everyone has a business model...maybe you could buy the site from the owner (who by the way is running just as legit of a business).
I here what you are saying I am sure it is a great business model... No updates just set it and forget it.( I hope ron popeill doesnt sue me for saying that.) I'm not complaining about them getting their first I'm just saying if someone got there first I would like to see some content or actual work having been put in the site.
Those are not MFA per se. Those are parked pages. They may have Yahoo feeds, depending on their parking provider. Those sites don't piss me off. MFA sites do. MFAs are those that generate content from other's hard work. They are usually blogs, and generated with the work of bots. They have pages that reads like this: I found a great page at so and so site. Check it out....And then they link to you.... It is these sites that piss me off. Also, you will find many sites on Blogger that have garbage content, and filled with Adsense ads. I strongly urge you to click the report blog link at the top of the page... Basically, you can say, ANY site with Adsense is an MFA. But the difference is in the amount of work put into it, that makes the difference. Sites with unique content, and have work put into them, you will know instantly. Sites made by ass****, you will also recognize them from afar.
Hard to do when you have 200 sites. It isn't in the owners best interest to have a bunch of crap articles spun and respun, but when those articles are legit articles, it can be great for everyone.
Not a true definition. MFA = Made for Adsense Any site with the goal of earning adsense money is "made for adsense". Not all are spam and made by bots. Some surely are, but not all.
Afterhim, read my definition again. MFA in the true context is a site with no value for anyone. And people who make are lazy, so they use software or bots to do it.
I don't really bother about MFA sites expect when they use Adwords. If they are ranking higher than us in serp that means they have done better SEO than us.I wouldn't try to blame them. also MFA means made for AdSense if you make a site targeting AdSense its a MFA sites even it has genuine content and against TOS. But who really bother about it ?
many people searches for niches and high paying niches so if they are looking for it then they are or they will make another MFA isnt tht right?
i hate parked domain as much as MFA, they are just crap site with no content that are trying to make money... what's the difference. ad provider should stop funding them and make them shut off from the internet. They are doing no good except messing SE ranking, polluting the internet and wasting advertisers' money. I wonder why advertisers don't even check where their ads are on and block those that are only there to show ads. If everyone start doing that, they will not make any money and they will go away. Like what is wrong with google, even providing domain parking services to godaddy's junk domain. I thought google = 'do no evil' ... not when huge amount of money is involved? ... the reality tells everything ... There was always time that pisses me off when i wanted a domain and it's taken and parked. One time i waited for so long for the .com version of my current domain expires (i have the .net, mine is a high traffic site). It expired and the previous owner didn't renew it, it goes to godaddy auction. I wanted to bid it but the price went out of my range, stupid domain parker ended it with a final price of $7,000 USD. Just what is wrong with those parkers, they are taking advantage of my traffic. My users sometimes type / link my site as .com by mistake in forums when they recommended it (so it has a good traffic report on godaddy) and godaddy just made 7k out of nowhere. Then parker making $ out of my mistaken traffic. What a shame, i can't do anything to stop them.
I think parking pages serve a useful purpose. Many years ago there were a whole bunch of "website under construction" messages and minimalistic "coming soon" pages instead of parking pages. Most parking pages provide relevant links to the domain and provide something more useful and attractive than a "page under construction page". They also generate income for domain owners while the pages are parked. Obviously some people abuse the system and park with no intention of developing a site but this is a minority. Many parking services are also used to promote the sale of unwanted domains.
you are so right, yycc there is so much on the internet that is wrong that could have been prevented if the main domain registry had thought ahead
I don't see it as wrong, people can do whatever they want with their domains and that is their choice. If they want to throw up a parking page and earn a few cents instead of developing it that's fine. I own thousands of domains and do you think i have developed them all? No of course not, but i do unpark one and develop as often as i can because it's in my best interest. It's a great business model for some people, if you have 1,000 domains making $1 a day would you be complaining? If you couldn't afford the domain you wanted that's bad luck sorry, i can't afford that 26 bedroom house on the beach just yet either. It's the way things are.
I'm sorry you wasted my time as well. There's nothing you can do about someone else decides to do with a domain, except try to purchase the domain from them. If you're not interested in purchasing the domain then it's your own fault. You should have came up with your idea sooner.
It seems like you're frustrated with parked domains due to personal issues. Parked domains, in my opinion, provide more conversions for advertisers than developed domains. For example: if you go to spyware.com... obviously you're looking for some spyware stuff. If it's a parked page (which spyware.com is), advertisers have a chance to get HIGHLY TARGETED traffic. Better than a blog talking about spyware. Also, parked domains have a "google footprint." Google knows they are parked pages and therefore normally don't rank high. They DON'T mess with SE rankings. You have a real misconception of domain parking. I'd rather people park domains than create MFA sites with copied content. Yep. Trying to buy domains has had the best of me also... sometimes you just have to fold, no matter how bad you want the domain. Wallet speaks more than words sometimes.
I havnt heard of making money with parked domains. How do you do this and if I bought a domain with godaddy and it is parked there are links... but I dont see a dime from this. How do you monetize a parked domain>