Are these Adwords URLs being Indexed intentionally?

[sdani]

While investigating 302 problems for a site, I searched for "inurl:domain" and found many URLs from one perticular domain using my adword ads in the URLs. So, I narrowed the search to the following:

inurl:click_out.php

Most of the URLs that I found on this search are going to Adwords ads DIRECTLY. Does that mean that these sites have actually linked to Adwords Ads directly on this click_out.php page and making money by either getting these pages crawled or even by hiring an army of people to directly click on these pages?

Just bring your mouse to any of these links and in Explorer status bar, you will see the paged.google.com.. (adwords) link.

Thanks
sdani

[sdani]

anyone? any opinion on this?

[toddb]

Do you opt in for content sites? It sounds like a way to create fraud but that is at first pass on limited info.

[sdani]

yes I do. I do opt for content sites.

[eWhisper]

The last time I saw a similar example was a scraper site had grabbed all the URLs from an AdWords page.

AdWords had indexed the scraper site with the AdWords URLs in them, and it caused a bit of a mess.

This case looks like (important note:looks - I'm not a programmer) the 3rd party is a PPC provider. The PPC provider's URLs are being indexed. Since these are redirect URLs where the advertiser gets charged per click, when someone clicks on these URLs in Google, they're taken to the advertiser's page, but through the PPC redirect.

[sdani]

The reason I am confused in the first place is the fact that these PPC URLs are indexed or clickable. There is a pattern in all these URLs and they are all pointing to Google's Adword ads directly through a php script.
Also, when I reported this to Google, they did not even investigated this, and just sent me a standard cut & paste response on how well they protect the fraud.

[Frequent]

Just my technique, and a bit of a pain...but I always reply to the canned responses and explain why the canned response is worthless with regards to my question. Sometimes it takes 3 passes but eventually I get an actual human response and they address the issue.

I would say that your inquiry warrants a genuine human's attention.

Freq---

[shortbus1662]

sounds like fraud to me (but I have no clue)