Return of the Mini-Site? Google Stops Its Domain Blocking Tool

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Google has discontinued its domain blocking tool (known as The Blocked Sites feature”) i

The tool would allow internet users could elect not to see results of say parked pages or content farm pages in their search results when logged into Google.

Google says users can still block particular sites from your search results, we recommend the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension from Google.

You may also download your existing blocked sites list as a text file.

So for parked pages, especially mini-sites it could mean a boost in traffic as a lot of domains that were automatically blocked by Google will no longer be blocked.

However you should keep in mind that Google’s Penguin updates have attempted to discount Exact Match Domains for sites without unique and valuable content

 

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Andrew Allemann says

    I don’t understand any correlation between the blocked sites tool and traffic to parked pages, unless your specific parked page was indexed in Google and people were blocking it. The blocked sites tool targeted a particular domain, not types of domains.

  2. DropHawk says

    Michael, the domain blocking tool hasn’t worked for over a year now. Google finally just made it official that they weren’t bringing it back. It only blocked sites that individuals decided to eliminate from their search results (and they needed to be logged in for permanent removal) so this has no relation to whether mini-sites are making a return to the SERPs.

    Panda algo takes care of any parked page or thin, mini-site from ranking.