If you’re anything like me, you probably have about 100 domains registered, doing nothing but putting money in godaddy’s pocket. I’ve been playing around with AdSense, and found some great documentation which shows how to configure your parked domains to use google’s AdSense instead. Without further adieu, here are the steps:
AdSense for Domains
After logging into your AdSense account, click the “AdSense Setup” tab, then the “Get Ads” link, and finally, click the “AdSense for Domains” link.
Add your Domains
This one is pretty easy. Click the “Add new domains” link to reach the add domains page.
From here, Google gives you two options:
- Manually type in all the domains you want to park (up to 1500)
- Upload a CSV file containing your domains
Very Important: Make sure you select your language, and then click the “Add domain(s)” button.
Once you have added your domains, you need to make DNS changes to point all those domains to google. To pull this off, you need:
- Your unique pub id
- A record and CNAME values
Google gives you both, and appears on the next screen after you Add your domains:
Updating DNS Entries
I’m currently on godaddy, so all my screen shots are from my account. Google does have step-by-step for other hosts like enom, register.com, 1and1, network solutions, yahoo, etc.
Updating with godaddy is pretty easy, whether you have 1 domain or 1500. All you have to do is apply the changes to one domain, and then bulk copy the settings to the other domains.
Making CNAME and A record changes to initial domain
From your domain manager, select the initial domain you want to change, and then scroll to the “Total DNS” section and click the “Total DNS Control” link.
Once you see the screen containing all the A, CNAME, and MX settings, click the edit icon (paper with pencil) in the CNAME’s “www” row. When the following popup opens, change the “Points To Host Name” to be your unique pub id from the AdSense page.
Click the “Ok” button, and then click the “Add New A Record” button. When the popup window opens, the IP address should point to 216.239.32.21. Repeat that for the other three IP addresses:
- 216.239.34.21
- 216.239.36.21
- 216.239.38.21
After adding all the IP addresses, now comes the fun part:
Bulk Copy DNS Settings
Godaddy actually makes this pretty easy. All you have to do is:
1. Click the “Copy” button, the following screen will pop up:
2. Check the box next to all the domains you want receiving AdSense.
3. Check each box BELOW the above popup (yeah, not the best UI choice) next to the new entries (all the A Record @ rows and the CNAMES www row):
4. Click the “Copy Records” button in the window listing all the domain names.
Hurry up and wait
After completing the domain registrar step, you just have to wait around for two things:
1. The DNS changes to propagate
2. Godaddy to approve your sites
When I did it for about 30 or so domains, the whole process took a total of 30 minutes, but your time may vary.
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