Leosghost - 8:08 pm on Dec 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

What one sees far more often than their examples is 4 images in a horizontal row ( usually near the top of the page pretending to be thumbnails and their associated nav links ) with text link adsense ( the part that is intended to be taken for the nav links ) precisely lined up under each image and less than 10 pxels below it ..

Shame they couldn't have shown that "combo" and said "don't do this clear and out loud" ..

It's way against their TOS ...but far more prevalent than the exmaples that they did show ( albiet this is at least apartial pulling aside of the curtain ) ..maybe from this toe in the water at clear speak they will go further?

worst one I saw recently as last friday .."click to download" links that open to a page with "if the download does not start within 5 seconds ..click any of the links below to begin your download" ..needless to say the only working links below were all adsense related to the descriptive text ( "free software site" and thus to the supposed download ..that never would start ..

friend thought his machine was broken ..said "I keep trying to download this thing ..but the links just keep opening on other websites" ..he's in France ..the site was in english ( which he understands a little ) ..he was searching for an old app ..normally freeware ..the fake freeware site rules the serps for 100's of apps ..none of which it has ..

all the site's adsense was in english ..well targeted pages ..well crafted ..pure scam ..manual site reveiw by adsense would have blown it out of the water ( it may yet :) ..if Mr cutts is on the ball ..?

then again decent serps wouldn't let it exist any way ..it had 7 from 10 of the page one places ..for each app it supposedly has available to download ..and sits in the serps like that due to it's being the centre of it's own web of recip sister sites all of which are linked to from the bottom of it's pages ..

despite what Adam may say in another thread ..G has lost it's grip on fake recips and fake sites and MFA's ..

And G ..having spent years saying "blend it" ..is now backtracking and saying different ..short memory? change of heart? ..

In which case why did I find a froogle ad at the top of serps today ..above the number one site for a 3 word search ..the froogle ad ( called itself the "product search result"..I wasnt searching for a product ) "had 2 words from 3 in the title that matched the 3word search ..the site below ( the normal number one organic result ) had 3 from 3 in the title..perfect match according to G ..but somehow it came second ~:o

serp ..3 words ..G gave 158,000 results

the "product search result" ..had a little image ( shopping sac ) right next to the ad text ..sort of screaming to be clicked on ..cute lil' grocery sac it was :)

and it and it's "Oh so close" ad text was out of the blue ..in the white ..down there in the place where normally only the organic search results are ..just above the first real organic result ..which was a better match for the search string ..

do as we say ..but not as we do? ..hey G?

edit ..clarity and spelling

[edited by: Leosghost at 8:10 pm (utc) on Dec. 18, 2006]