I wonder if Google will index sites they park differently than sites parked at SEDO?

I can’t imagine Google won’t be trying to tie this into their /a apps platform and encouraging people to start down the path of developing their sites, even if it is with their cheezy site builder.

the thing I find more interesting is the hypocritical nature (again) of google’s position. They’ll punish your for a MFA site, consider it search engine spam to have duplicate content on your site… Yet here they go down the slippery slope themselves.

i wager you’ll be able to add fees from google groups and blog search within a year to your site builder content to help you develop your name.

They’ll ban article spinners and sites like articlemarketingautomation.com from auto posting content to blogger, yet in the end, how different is that from posting RSS feeds to your site and using google.com/friendconnect to add (duplicate) content from your friends sites, blogs and photo galleries.

Anyway… I think the moral is that parking companies need to evolve their publishing platforms to be able to compete with other content development platforms…

Helping people monetize their names is the purpose of a parking company, they’ll just have to get a little more sophisticated as the landscape changes.

Companies like Dotzup are already more selective about what names they’ll accept, looking for strong generic type in potentials, I just see that extending as parking companies move from web1.0 static page frameworks (arguably the ultimate MFA sites) to more web2.0 content and publishing networks.

The smartest one’s will take advantage of google’s own API’s to draw in and create mashup’s from their content.

That’s my 2cents anyway

I dont think we shall see any parking companies disappearing for at least 18 – 24 months.

Most people shall be scared to walk away from nice parking payments and risk it with Google!

Also Google might not pay aswell as everyone is thinking – They can offer this service and keep more cash but give us the same as we got before so wheres the advantage?

We really need to wait and see what happens but I tell what would be a good interview for you to do Patrick – Get Donny from Parked.com back and see what he has to say about it.

Regards,

Robbie

Whether it is a successful competitor and option, we’ll have to wait and see but I wouldn’t bet against Google.

I will say that I would be pretty pissed off and/or scared that Google is going direct to my customers.

I will say too that there will be less parking companies around this time next year.

They will merge or die. Some will have a “run” by their customers where so many domains leave they one or more simply won’t be able to survive.

I get the sense that parking companies are in the same position as the newspaper business… a dying industry.

That is really too bad and that will probably have an effect on the valuation of all domains. People will speculate less on domains because the simple revenue won’t be there anymore.

I also think that MFA parking companies like VentureNames.com will offer higher PPC revenue than Google’s own parking system because I can guarantee that Google will cap the PPC on their AdSense for Domains feeds in relation to their standard AdSense ads.

Just my 2c..