Comments on: Adsense now allows Click Fraud Reporting

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:49:14 +0000

Well you know, I’ve actually come across a lot of websites that explicitly violate the TOS and still remain in the Adsense program. And these are, I think, some very popular websites and I’m a bit confused as to why they still have active adsense accounts. One site I saw was a video search directory, that stores videos uploaded by their registered members and makes them available to anyone who accesses their sites. The videos are indexed and searchable. You’ll see alot of copyrighted material such as video clips from TV shows. This site is pretty popular and it would be a surprise if google hasn’t even heard about them yet. I also saw this one site that has keywords written around the adsense code. CSS is then used to hide the keywords so that the site gets targeted ads regardless of the content. You really start to wonder. You hear stories of people who inexplicably have their adsense accounts cancelled and then you come across some sites that clearly violate the guidelines and yet they’re still running the ads.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:29:19 +0000

I’m with Denise. Follow Google’s Terms of Service and you should be fine… Now… to go and read them again so as to remember. :)

By: Denise O'Berry

Denise O'Berry — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:31:39 +0000

I think the worry is overrated. Or maybe I’m just an optimist. I would think that Google would use the reporting tool to BEGIN an investigation into the facts, not just to kick someone right out of the marketplace.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:58:25 +0000

I’d be worried about if someone doesn’t like what you wrote about them on a site and decides to try to submit your website.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:51:45 +0000

I recently posted about Google being sued for not doing enough about click fraud, and the potential for a class action.

Maybe Google are being forced to fix the click fraud problem because they fear such action could snowball.

I too can see this quite easily being abused by competitors to fraudulently report click fraud

By: Shai Coggins

Shai Coggins — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:47:36 +0000

I’m not keen on troublesome publishers AdSense as well. But, like you, I’m worried that this sort of thing may potentially raise more problems — even with legitimate publishers.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:35:02 +0000

Some people think it’s a hell of a joke to dob someone in (as you Aussies say). But being put on a blacklist or secretly monitored is no fun if it’s your business involved.

By: Heat

Heat — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:03:31 +0000

I can understand you Darren, i’m a bit worried aswell..

I’m currently a member in about 5 forums that engage with graphic designing, alot of members there do have sites that is in direct competition with mine, i wonder if they’ll try to do something like this..

Heat