I just discovered an ad about mesothelioma in a health related site and leaded to a parked page!?
Unbelievable!
I'm not trying to top you, but I pulled this excerpt out of an old post of mine which described one of the most egregious uses of adwords/adsense that I've seen. And I haven't been looking for such things.
Without looking hard I found a whole network of "medical" information sites (that had been operating longer than I've been in adwords). Each one contains perhaps 100 category pages with its own ads and between 50 - 200 words of text pulled from a medical book.Since the same material gets used by multiple sites, a word or two is changed here and there to stymie either the Google Bot or some automated AdSense checker. These changes to what ostensibly originated as legitimate medical advice sometimes can result in serious misinformation. Consider the following altered statement:
Other types of ovarian Cancer are malignant or cancerous
Read that a second time if need be.
Potentially tragic to one willing to cling to any hope or who simply believes if it is on the Internet, it must be true.
Now I stumbled onto these by accident. Struck me funny that one of the adsense sites was called Prodisease.com - seemed like an odd name. What I found was an endless nest of similar sites advertising on each other's pages as well as on legitimate adsense sites.
They obviously wanted to capitalize on the ads from Big Pharma, surgical supplies and sadly also included the legitimate non-profit health organizations (who I hope google allows to advertise for free) among their results.
I didn't even go any further with this, but this #$*! is evil!
Sadly, you can probably pull in thousands of dollars each week with this sort of charade if you completely lack moral character
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