Please review www.GoogleSiteClub.com

Hi,

I have decided to make the Google Site Club a forum for people operating sites where Google Adsense is the main income source.

There is an area there for you all to plug your sites.

Please give me any suggestions that you may have.

Cheers.

 

it is a creative idea and i hope this forum will be a successful one as Google is main source of income and every webmaster wants to get more and more traffic.
wish you best of luck

 

There is a section for you to plug your site.

Hope to see all your sites listed there.

 

You cannot have "google" in your domain name, its a trademark infringement and you will get a mail from their legal team soon enough.
If you really have to have google in ur domain, you need to fill out approval forms for it and get written permission.
just my 2 cents.

 

I thought I could.

I haven't used any of their trademarks or anything at all.

Can you not have MercedesSiteClub.com

JohnyDepFanClub.com

??

 

well you can in a way.. let me explain..
google's main revenue stream is online. so their brand name is the most important thing to them. and its all online. what might happen when u register www.googleXXXXXX.com or some other domain with google in it. people associate it with google which hampers its brand. And googles legal dept does all that it can to protect this trademark image.
Wait i'll copy paste a excerpt from a mail i got for a domain with google in it. and all that poor ol domain was doing was redirecting to the google labs page (with no profit/benefit to me).
hope this helps.


Google is the owner of the well-known trademark and trade name GOOGLE, as well as the domain name GOOGLE.COM. As you are no doubt aware, GOOGLE is the trademark used to identify our award-winning search engine, located at www.google.com. Since its inception in 1997, the GOOGLE search engine has become one of the most highly recognized and widely used Internet search engines in the world. Google owns numerous trademark registrations and applications for its GOOGLE mark in countries around the world.

Google has used and actively promoted its GOOGLE mark for a number of years, and has invested considerable time and money establishing exclusive proprietary rights in the GOOGLE mark for a wide range of goods and services. As a result of its efforts, the GOOGLE mark has become a famous mark and a property right of incalculable value.

You have registered, without Google's permission or authorization, the domain name [edited]google[edited].com (the 'Domain Name'). The Domain Name is confusingly similar to or incorporates in its entirety the famous GOOGLE mark, and, by its very composition, suggest Google's sponsorship or endorsement of your websites and correspondingly, your activities.

Your use of a Domain Name that is confusingly similar to the famous GOOGLE mark constitutes trademark infringement and dilution of Google's trademark rights and unfair competition. Your use of the Domain Name is diluting use because it weakens the ability of the GOOGLE mark and domain name to identify a single source, namely Google. Further, your registration and use of the Domain Name misleads consumers into believing that some association exists between Google and you, which tarnishes the goodwill and reputation of Google's services and trademarks.

Your registration and use of the Domain Name is clearly designed to appropriate the goodwill associated with the famous GOOGLE mark in violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ('ACPA'). Because you are using a Domain Name that is similar to the famous GOOGLE mark to direct Internet traffic to your commercial website, your bad faith intent to profit from our mark is manifest. Please note the ACPA provides for damages of up to $100,000 per domain name.

 

What should I do to monetize the site then, if I cannot use adsense?

Any preferences on affiliate programs?