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As per requirements of their main PPC provider Google, Sedo will now include unpaid search results on Domain Landers. From the Sedo announcement as posted on their site:

One of these industry-wide changes is the implementation of organic search results on parked domains. Organic searches will appear at the end of a search results page that is generated when visitors click on a related link or enter a search term. These unpaid links should improve the user experience and the relevancy of the content. Another change required of our advertising partner, is that visitor clicks on your parked domains will now open the target page in the same window.

Both of these changes will be rolled out globally and users may see variations in CTR. However, with the new Auto Layout Rotation tool improving CTR at 11% on average, this should counteract any negative effects. We are also working on several new parking features which will be rolled out in the coming months to improve your parking experience with Sedo.

Fabulous.com, also using a Google PPC feed, already had to make similar changes to their parked pages earlier.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

Chitika has announced a new service to help domainers make more money on their parked domains. “Chitika for Domainers” is a customizable product store that can be added to parked domains to generate extra revenue. The store has a very professional look and pays after the first click.

[via Chitika Blog]

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Original post by Chad Kettner

Google Adwords has announced a new feature that allows advertisers to opt out of parked pages, error pages, forums, social networking sites, image sharing sites, and video sharing sites.

While parking pages have historically performed equally well or better than other ads, there is concern within the community that advertisers will opt-out of parked domains due to the large amounts of fraud and uncertainty.

In the end, if domain parking continues to deliver desirable results then this could turn out to be a positive change for domain investors.

[via Domain Name Wire]

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Original post by Chad Kettner

Forgive me for missing out on the obvious additional misuse of another racist domain name, Niggers.com which is owned by the “Anti Hate Association” and currently is displaying a parking page by Sedo. Is the Anti Hate Association aware of how their domain is being used? (more…)

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Original post by Adam Strong

According to an article by DomainNameWire, Ask.com is to stop syndicating the google advertising feed to parking providers.

Domain Name Wire has learned through multiple sources that Ask.com’s Google feed will no longer be syndicated to parking companies as of March 1. A number of parking companies use this feed to augment other search results. I know that Parked.com uses it for traffic to some foreign companies, and apparently HitFarm and Skenzo use this feed as well.

Ask.com had also recently dropped a large part of their domain parking deals.

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Original post by Frank Michlick

The Germany based Domain Market Place NICIT has started a beta test for their new domain parking service. The service is  to offer two options: “domain parking” and also “content parking”, which promises to add content to your parked domains, hopefully resulting in additional traffic from the search engines. Participation in the test is by invitation only.

[via DomainSmallTalk (German)]

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Original post by Frank Michlick