europeforvisitors - 7:39 pm on Jun 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

He admitted he clicked on ads on his own site. Fraud is in my opinion when it was intentionally to gain money.

Call it fraud, or call it a willingness to examine landing pages at the advertiser's expense. Either way, there's no question that the clicks were invalid, and Google terminates accounts for "invalid clicks" all the time.

Actualy, who on this board--besides AdSenseAdvisor and Jenstar--knows all the details of the Google Terms and Conditions?

A publisher doesn't have to know the TOS intimately (or even to read the TOS) to understand that advertisers pay for clicks, and that publishers who click on ads for "testing purposes" are profiting at the advertisers' expense.