Making Money with Adsense for Domains

According to Google, its advertising product AdSense for Domains (“AFD”) “is designed to provide relevant search results and advertisements to website owners, who typically display those results on websites that have been registered but not yet developed.”

A simplified description of this adsense product is as follows. Historically, when one typed into a search engine a web address or a domain name that did not have a developed website associated with it, the user would generally see an error message or simply a placeholder page indicating that the site was “under construction.” However, for participants in the AFD program, Google will generate search results, advertising (known at Google as “Sponsored Links”), related searches and common search terms for display on the undeveloped webpage which are relevant to the web address entered by the user. Google sends back this “content” to the AFD partner which plugs it into the webpage and presents it to the user who is conducting the search. According to Google, this all occurs in less than a second millions of times a day. If the user clicks on an advertisement ( i.e., Sponsored Link) for that webpage, the advertiser is billed a few cents which Google and the AFD partner share.

I have over 100 domains and since many are not being used, this product may be very helpful. I have only recently signed up for this product so it is too soon to know how well it works, but the advantage of the product is that you get all the benefits of having a “parked” domain without have to put up with the much smaller payouts that parked domain companies pay. I suspect that the key to getting traffic will depend on whether any popular keywords are contained in your domain name. Another benefit of this product is that you can get an idea in advance (befoe you spend time and effort in developing a webisite) as to which of your domain names are goldmines and which are duds.

To signup just login to your google adsense account and you will see under the “Reports Section” in bold print on the lefthand side Adsense for Domains.

There is also an Adsense for Feeds but that is a whole other article.