In a post to its “Inside Search” blog today, Google announced a new set of policies for indexing parked domains. While there were very few specifics, it is clearly not good news for people who use domain parking to generate revenue for domains they are not using.
New “parked domain” classifier: This is a new algorithm for automatically detecting parked domains. Parked domains are placeholder sites that are seldom useful and often filled with ads. They typically don’t have valuable content for our users, so in most cases we prefer not to show them.
Having parked domains in the top set of search results for a given keyword, hasn’t been easy for a long time. Domain parking has been on a negative slope for a number of years. The irony is that Google itself runs a parking service that would appear to be at odds with this move. People can still make money parking domains from type-in traffic or even ppc ads, but it looks like natural search engine optimization is a thing of the past with Google.