| Someone Else wrote: |
| We have been occasionally hearing about Google's concern about Adsense Click fraud, as not too long ago, Google's CEO said that we must do something to eliminate this problem as soon as possible.
People at google say they strictly follow the rules and never spare any publisher. That sounds scary to most of the publishers, specially those who are successfuly making money from Adsense program. But how often does it happen that we see a website indulging in Adsense fraud or voilating the program policies? To me it has happened more than once. I have seen numerous sites that have no content of their own, just a few links or pictures and large boxes displaying Adsense ads, this clearly shows that the site owner has made built the site only to run Adsense ads. This is against Adsense policies and according to Adsense terms, they do not approve such sites in the first place. So how do such sites get into Adsense program is beyond my understanding. OK, this is a minor voilation of Adsense, what about those sites who openly commit adsense fraud and ask their visitors to click on ads before offering them any "Free" service. I have seen atleast one. Now the question arises, what can a visitor do if he knows about such a fraud? Adsense Help page has shown a very convenient way of reporting a fraud. Do they always act and investigate when a fraud is reported. As far as my experience is concerned, the answer is NO. So the story goes like this: Once, while searching for a free web host for my ASP application I came upon a site ipdz.com which was offering a free ASP account with a fairly large space and bandwidth. I immediately signed up for one account. But when I tried to login, I couldn't. I wrote to the contact person telling him about my problem. After a few days, a reply came in which the support person told me that I would only be able to Login if I clicked on the ads on the main page just "once". I immediately understood his motive and went to the site's main page and clicked once on the Google Ads. Having a good knowhow of Adsense, I knew why he wanted a click just once, and I did just that. After that, I was able to Login to my account. But due to extremely slow speed I left the task of site uploading for another day. After a few days, when I typed the site's name in my browser, I got a message on my screen telling me that I had clicked on the Ads more than once(which I had not), so my I.P. was banned from accessing that site (ipdz.com) forever. This came as a rude shock to me. Realizing that I had comitted a mistake by clicking on his ads, It immediately came to my mind that according to Google's policies, such sites get bannned by Adsense, if reported. So I sent a mail to Adsense support telling them about the fraud and as a proof I forwarded those mails which the site owner had sent to me. To my dissapointment, people at Adsense have not taken any action against that site even after a month of reporting! This attitude of google is of greater dissapointment to me than that of the fraudster. After reading so much about Google's strict approach towards evil minded people, it is hard for me to believe that google is really concerned about click fraud. Or maybe their Support team is too busy to look into such individual complaints. Or maybe it is so because they won't believe in a complaint coming from an Email address which has itself been banned by Adsense. |
| Animal wrote: |
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