Back to our regularly scheduled programming… Over the weekend several news channels reported on how Google has decided to take a stand against domain kiting. Domain kiting is the technique used by domain name speculators to “test the waters” without having to pay for a domain. You can do this because there’s a 5-day grace period when you buy a domain that lets you back out of the transaction and get your money back… The basic idea is very simple: register a domain, immediately display some ads on it, and then wait to see if you get any traffic in the first 5 days. Then either keep or cancel the domain name. (If you’re in it strictly for the money, you don’t even bother keeping the domain name… you just keep the earnings for those 5 days and move on to another domain, or else drop and re-register the same domain…)

It may not sound like you can make much money, but if you’re testing thousands of domains it can definitely add up. (For more information on the domain name business, I recommend you read Domains Into Dollars, it’s the best one I’ve found.)

Anyhow, AdSense is a favorite program for domain kiting. It’s so easy to implement, and Google even has a specific program (AdSense for Domains) designed for domain parking. Now, however, they’ve decided that domain kiting is bad and so they’re changing AdSense to not serve ads to any domain that has been registered for only 5 days or less. Note that this doesn’t affect domain parking per se, it just means that you have to wait 5 days before you can start using AdSense for domain parking. At that point you own the domain and you can’t get a refund on the registration fee. So it shows (in theory) that you’re serious about doing something with the domain.

Pundits who think this will destroy domain kiting are wrong, of course. Domain kiters will simply move to other advertising programs. And there will be plenty of script kiddies who will jump into the fray and offer new scripts to fill in the void.

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Last week I made PLRSiteBuilder available at the special price of $67 to my mailing list, warning them I’d increase the price shortly to $77 for the public release. As someone pointed out, I really didn’t given many people time to think it over carefully before raising the price… so I’ve decided to lower the price to $67 until February 1. I’ll be contacting those who bought it at the higher price to arrange for an upgrade or rebate.

Now you have no reason to hesitate! Go directly to the order page. (And for $20 more you can get a copy of Uncommon AdSense, which is sold separately for $67!) Hurry, hurry and start building your AdSense empire today!

(Starting to sound too much like a marketer….)

Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.

Due to popular demand, I’ve officially launched PLRSiteBuilder, and it’s now available to the general public. You can download the PLRSiteBuilder manual for free to see what the software lets you do.

The documentation needs more work. I’ll be increasing the price of PLRSiteBuilder over time as I add more documentation and videos to make it a more complete product. The software works, however, even if all the features haven’t yet been documented.

I built this software as much for my own use as for anyone else’s. I wanted something that would let me quickly and easily build a content-rich website, a website that was complete and worked “out of the box” and yet was easy to change and update. PLRSiteBuilder lets you work with simple text files, letting you concentrate on the content. Sites like Debt Is Great (that’s tongue-in-cheek) and Credit Card Scorecard are two examples of some simple sites created with PLRSiteBuilder. Then there are mailing list “squeeze” sites like Eat Less, Weigh Less!. There’s also an option to create a site whose home page is an order page. (I don’t have an example of that one yet.)

You can easily change the look and feel of the site, either directly through the user interface or by editing CSS files. There’s even a template system if you really want to change things around. You can also automatically insert affiliate links and other links into the content. You can automatically split long content pages into multiple pages, complete with automatically-generated navigational links.

And, of course, AdSense ads are already embedded in the content.

Like I said, there are lots of features. Start by looking a the manual. Ask me questions if you want. All sales are through ClickBank, with a full 8-week guarantee.

Not much of a sales pitch, I know. The affiliate program’s open now, though, so go ahead and market it for me. ClickBank vendor ID is “plrsiteb”, as in egiguere.plrsiteb.hop.clickbank.net — just replace the “egiguere” with your own ClickBank ID.

Eric Giguere is the author of several printed books and knows a thing or two about content monetization. Subscribe to his AdSense blog today and never miss any of his insightful comments. And the not-so-insightful ones, for that matter.