Disclaimer: This is NOT illegal, only because there are no laws that state that this method is not legal. Therefore, if you choose to do it, you are doing so at your own risk and of your own decision, and I cannot and will not be held responsible for you and your actions. This is purely an unethical route, not illegal.
This is not Black Hat. This is just plain against all of the feed providers' TOS and the parking services as well, but, this has worked every damn time I've tried it, so I figured I'd let everyone know about it here.
It's easy enough.
I've used just about every domain parking service with this, and to date, none have banned me. Hell, none of them have even emailed me or warned me about it either.
The method is so simple. I clicked on my own domains, and then on the ad sponsored feed links. It's the good 'ol "don't click on your own ads" method.
I know you think I'm fucking stupid and crazy for talking about it here, but it's true. I know it works, because when I first started to do it a bunch of years ago, I did it for one purpose. To find out the level of security that the parking services had, and how they measured clickfraud (the term didn't even exist back then), and what they would do to the avg domainer if they were caught. Well, it's been years, and the only two parking services I've heard from other people that will ban you are Fabulous and Sedo. But I tried it on Sedo, with only 6 domains, and I got paid. Never tried it on Fabulous, but I have clicked friends' domains and links as per their request, and they got paid too.
When I do this, I try to be as blatantly obvious as possible. I'm not trying to hide at all. I feel like the only way to make it clear to them that I'm testing this is to email them and let them know "hey guys, I'm clicking my own ad links on really high paying keywords that have nothing to do with the nature of the domain, just to see how you guys handle it!" -- Which emailing them would make it too obvious. So screw them if they brag and advertise about how clean their traffic is, and how highly secure they are and blah blah, when the truth is, all they have to do is match my IP that I log into my domainer panel with, to the IP that is directly hitting the domains and clicking on the links.
It's fucking amazing to me that they allow something SO blatantly obvious. If I were to get a warning, I'd never do it again at that registrar, and/or test out other methods.
Why do I do this? Well, two reasons.
First reason. I want to be sure that if someone clicks on the feed links, I know I'll be getting paid or credited, regardless of their action on the advertiser's page. I also like to know that even if someone searches or clicks on a keyword totally unrelated to my parked domain, that I still get credit. Lastly, I try and track it to see WHAT they count or credit. For example, are they counting it as an impression, a raw or a unique click? How long does it take for them to display a click made on an ad link? Do I get credit for multiple clicks on multiple ad links on the same page or sponsored results for one keyword or multiple ones? Finally, the main reason, I want to see if they will ban a certain IP from performing a search or click, and if they do, is it temp or permanent?
Second reason. If they fail in being able to not credit me for the stuff I've done in the first reason, I figure, alright, I'll just click enough to recoup my initial investment of the domain purchase price, and let it take over naturally from there. This way I know I'm in the black for the rest of the year. If I choose to renew the domain at the end of the year or not, I won't feel like I've lost cash on it (I haaaaate losing money, even the fee of the domain at $6-$7) and letting it go won't be an issue for me. Hell, if I can flip it before it expires, even with the extra few bucks it would make, it's all profit so I have a smile on my face.
I'm curious to see how much longer this will last for. I think years. Because from what I've seen so far, there is SO much room for pillaging, and 99% of the hype about fraud monitoring and security has been bullshit to date, I really don't see them doing much more about it anytime soon. Domaining is still NOT mainstream, so even when it becomes mainstream, you have to figure there will be a good 3-6 years before any really big changes will be made to combat the insane amount of fraud and scammers that will come into the industry and make what I do for testing purposes and recouping a few bucks for the year, into a business model of their own with the goal of doing it on a very large, and always foolish level.
Moral of the story... Don't be greedy.
If you're going to do this, don't do it for crazy high or even medium level profits. Do it to recoup your costs only AFTER you do it for testing purposes. That's my justification to what makes it OKAY, but then again, my ethics may not be as high as yours.
This is not Black Hat. This is just plain against all of the feed providers' TOS and the parking services as well, but, this has worked every damn time I've tried it, so I figured I'd let everyone know about it here.
It's easy enough.
I've used just about every domain parking service with this, and to date, none have banned me. Hell, none of them have even emailed me or warned me about it either.
The method is so simple. I clicked on my own domains, and then on the ad sponsored feed links. It's the good 'ol "don't click on your own ads" method.
I know you think I'm fucking stupid and crazy for talking about it here, but it's true. I know it works, because when I first started to do it a bunch of years ago, I did it for one purpose. To find out the level of security that the parking services had, and how they measured clickfraud (the term didn't even exist back then), and what they would do to the avg domainer if they were caught. Well, it's been years, and the only two parking services I've heard from other people that will ban you are Fabulous and Sedo. But I tried it on Sedo, with only 6 domains, and I got paid. Never tried it on Fabulous, but I have clicked friends' domains and links as per their request, and they got paid too.
When I do this, I try to be as blatantly obvious as possible. I'm not trying to hide at all. I feel like the only way to make it clear to them that I'm testing this is to email them and let them know "hey guys, I'm clicking my own ad links on really high paying keywords that have nothing to do with the nature of the domain, just to see how you guys handle it!" -- Which emailing them would make it too obvious. So screw them if they brag and advertise about how clean their traffic is, and how highly secure they are and blah blah, when the truth is, all they have to do is match my IP that I log into my domainer panel with, to the IP that is directly hitting the domains and clicking on the links.
It's fucking amazing to me that they allow something SO blatantly obvious. If I were to get a warning, I'd never do it again at that registrar, and/or test out other methods.
Why do I do this? Well, two reasons.
First reason. I want to be sure that if someone clicks on the feed links, I know I'll be getting paid or credited, regardless of their action on the advertiser's page. I also like to know that even if someone searches or clicks on a keyword totally unrelated to my parked domain, that I still get credit. Lastly, I try and track it to see WHAT they count or credit. For example, are they counting it as an impression, a raw or a unique click? How long does it take for them to display a click made on an ad link? Do I get credit for multiple clicks on multiple ad links on the same page or sponsored results for one keyword or multiple ones? Finally, the main reason, I want to see if they will ban a certain IP from performing a search or click, and if they do, is it temp or permanent?
Second reason. If they fail in being able to not credit me for the stuff I've done in the first reason, I figure, alright, I'll just click enough to recoup my initial investment of the domain purchase price, and let it take over naturally from there. This way I know I'm in the black for the rest of the year. If I choose to renew the domain at the end of the year or not, I won't feel like I've lost cash on it (I haaaaate losing money, even the fee of the domain at $6-$7) and letting it go won't be an issue for me. Hell, if I can flip it before it expires, even with the extra few bucks it would make, it's all profit so I have a smile on my face.
I'm curious to see how much longer this will last for. I think years. Because from what I've seen so far, there is SO much room for pillaging, and 99% of the hype about fraud monitoring and security has been bullshit to date, I really don't see them doing much more about it anytime soon. Domaining is still NOT mainstream, so even when it becomes mainstream, you have to figure there will be a good 3-6 years before any really big changes will be made to combat the insane amount of fraud and scammers that will come into the industry and make what I do for testing purposes and recouping a few bucks for the year, into a business model of their own with the goal of doing it on a very large, and always foolish level.
Moral of the story... Don't be greedy.
If you're going to do this, don't do it for crazy high or even medium level profits. Do it to recoup your costs only AFTER you do it for testing purposes. That's my justification to what makes it OKAY, but then again, my ethics may not be as high as yours.
