Do you have many domain names which you have parked and they are not live? Don’t you think they are sitting idle doing nothing for you except putting a hole in your pocket every year for the renewal fee? Here is what you can do. You can run Adsense ads on the parked domains and can earn some cash which can help you in paying the annual renewal fee. This post will explain how you can show Adsense ads on GoDaddy parked domain. As a prerequisite, you should have an already approved AdSense account which I assume you have. To show Adsense on your GoDaddy parked domain, you need to do the following:
- Creating a New Hosted Domain on your AdSense account
- Delegating your domain’s GoDaddy nameserver to Google’s DNS nameserver
What else? Were you expecting a long list of steps? naah…its very simple and I will walk you through the entire process in an even simpler way.
OK, Lets get started with the first step:
1. Creating a New Hosted Domain on your Adsense Account
- Login to Adsense and Go to “My ads”
- Click on “Domains” in the left sidebar
- In the next page, click on “New Hosted Domain”
- You can add up to 100 domain names in the text box that appears after you click on the “New Hosted Domain”. You need to separate every domain name with a comma, space or line break.
- Now select a language for the domains you have updated and click on “Add Domain(s)” button. You can also alternatively upload a CSV file containing the domain names.
- After you click on the “Add Domain” button, you will see a confirmation message that your domain has successfully been added. Click on Close to close the pop-up message.
- You can also click on the “View the domain setup guide” link and can note the Google nameserver details. To save you from that extra screen, I have already taken the note of them and have mentioned below which can be updated into the GoDaddy name server details page.
Now let’s do that second and the last phase of this activity.
2. Delegating your domain’s GoDaddy nameserver to Google’s DNS nameserver
- Go to godaddy.com and Login to your account
- Hover over the Domains menu item until you get a drop down with Domain Manager Link in the bottom right
- After you get inside the domain manager, you need to click on the desired domain name on which you would like to show Adsense Ads
- Now you can see the existing DNS entries of the domain name. You need to change these entries to the Google DNS nameserver entries as mentioned in the screenshot below
That’s it, As soon as Google detects the new DNS entries, it will start showing Adsense ads on your parked domain and you will start earning from something which was earlier sitting idle doing nothing for you.
The steps might be a little different for other domain registrars but the basic concept is same. You need to change the existing DNS entries of the domain name with the Google DNS entries and Adsense will start serving ads on your parked domain.
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