trader - 12:28 am on Feb 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

It's quite possible someone is framing your website in the search results, thus stealing your traffic and income.

When my own stats were much lower than expected we used the Google Tool inurl:domainnamedotcom which found everyone with my url as part of their url.

In clicking on them we discovered scammers who illegally framed our site and put their own Adsense Code at the top of my index page, thus getting our traffic and clicks.

Reporting it to Adsense Abuse with detailed information several times did not accomplich much as after 2 weeks the fraud was still ongoing and the scam Adsense was still there, and we only got canned kind of replies from G. I also asked G to reimburse us for the stolen income from the scammers account with no response after 3 weeks.

After more than 2 weeks the framing and scam Adsense was still onging and the scammers adsense account was still active last time we checked. Amazing how easy the fraudster can do this and get away with the scams.

We also asked about this at the Tracking and Logging forum here and someone kindly sent us some Javascript code to insert which stops the framing and worked well.

I suspect this is something getting to be commonly done (involving both Adsense and YPN ads) but for some odd reason it's rare anyone talks about it. For example, when we posted about this before there was very little response or feedback.