Rick Schwartz has been writing about how Google turned off serving ads on his minisite, a few days ago, without notice or a right to appeal.

Rick asks in his 2 posts, what does that type of treatment say, for how Google feels about domainers.

Well Rick,  Google has been operating like this for years.

Many years.

Remember when Google Implemented “Smart Pricing” many years ago?

At that time we had a direct contract with Google.

One day we noticed our revenue got slashed dramatically, overnight.

We called our Google Rep to find out what happened, no response.

We e-mailed our Google Rep to find out what happened, no response.

We left support tickets, no answer.

It wasn’t until a WEEK passed that we received a any notice from Google.

Google told us that they had implemented “smart pricing”, not only without prior notice, but without notice for a week until after it was in effect.

To this day, Google has never supplied a domainer its “smart pricing” ranking.

Compare this to Yahoo which gave the world months of notice of its “Panama” project and its newest quality score adjustment that was launched on September 9th.

Google doesn’t tell you what your “smart pricing” score is, whether its gone up or down since last week, last month or last year, how it is computed or any other information on this extremely important issue which dramatically affects what domainers earn from Google.

When I asked a question to Matt Cutts at the TRAFFIC show, I got the standard answer you always get whenever you ask Google about this: Its proprietary information and we aren’t going to tell you.

Nice.

Compare this to Yahoo which shows you your accounts quality score on a scale from 1-10 every day of the year, (even when you use a parking company) clearly showing any changes.

How about domains Google “bans” from their system overnight, again with no notice or explanation.

Google doing what ever the hell they want is nothing new.

Google basically pays you want they want.

No transparency, no notice, no explanation.

This is how Google does business and they have been doing this to domainers for many, many years.

However,  Google continues to grow in market share, their profits continue to rise, and the stock is at a 52 week high.

So I sure wouldn’t expect any positive fundamental change from Google and they way they treat or think about domainers.

Google will continue to do whatever they want.

I think we lost this battle a long time ago.

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