Click Fraud - Can I Buy Your Domain Parking Account?

Click fraud is a real problem for domain parking companies – one that does not look to be going away anytime soon. Having been online for the last five or so years I have read and head about click fraud and adsense. Many webmasters have had their adsense accounts banned due to “shifty” clicks, some of which I have known of fairly well and I have a hard time believing these webmasters would game adsense for the short term pay off. Of course most people who have had an adsense account disabled are in fact trying to game the system.

It only gets worse for domainers and parking companies like NameDrive.com, Parked.com, Trafficz.com and SedoPro to name a few. Right now I can probably find dozens of threads across the popular seo forums like digital point and Site Point offering to “buy your parking account at any of the following companies”.

It would appear their are many fraudsters who make it their business to cheat parking companies, Google, Yahoo as well as decent domainers like you and me. Last week I ran into one of these fraudsters little gaming set ups. I had recently picked up about twenty domains targeting attorneys in popular us cities.

One such domain has the state of Texas in the name, instead of parking the domain I thought I would do better over the long run to get some content up on the site and to work to rank over the next few years.

This way I can offer not only a domain but a site driving traffic. I launched the site and added adsense and smiled when I saw all those lovely adsense ads. One ad caught my eye so I direct navigated to the domain (I for one am not going to jeperdized my adsense account that is worth about a hundred bucks a day to me). The domain in questions also had the word “Texas” in the domain.

My jaw dropped when I landed on a Parked.com parked page that was highly optimized with tons of attorney links. This person is simply paying for clicks on the low end (off my real website via adsense content network) and sending them to a parked.com page.

Sad -

It is this type of activity that has made it such a dam pain in the ass when honest domainers / seo’s apply at these parking companies. Over the last five weeks I have applied to four companies and have been accepted by three.

I don’t thinks I like this click fraud stuff.

Brian