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Big fraud, big fraud!

Do you think scrapers are bad? See my referals, they are.

         

fischermx

9:10 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I can't believe what I've just discover.
I made a search to my site in quotes "www.mysite.com", and I found arround 300 websites where my ads were showing. These sites are somehow "premium" adense publisher because they were allowed to strip the adsense code and embedded in their (parking) pages.

For my technology related site, I found my ads running on baby foods, recipes, wine shops, body cleansing, divorce, a soccer player, engagements, naked pictures, search fetish, jeez!, an endless list of absolutely non-related websites!

DumpedbyG

9:19 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Had the same problem. E-mail G, and got replay to exclude the sites. Mailed back and explained that I can not because it is not content sites. The suggestion then from G was to disable search and use site targeting. (Our ads showed on site like #*$!xxxx-sex.com)

Personally I feel G must select there partners better!

moltar

10:12 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Were those Sedo parking pages?

heyday

10:39 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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how are you tracking which sites are coming from the Content network? All I see in my stats is:

[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

This is all Urchin tells me as far the the reffer?

heyday

fischermx

10:52 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Were those Sedo parking pages?

No those that I complain about.
I mean, I do receive traffic from Sedo parking pages, but they are totally on topic with the parked pages name/theme. So, it seems logic someone arriving to such pages can perform a search and found get ad.

But these other parked pages are some of them custom made, or belong to smaller parking programs.
Take a look, add com to mixfever, washingtonwineshop, babyfood, body-cleansing, searchfetish, sex150, etc.

[edited by: fischermx at 10:57 pm (utc) on July 12, 2005]

fischermx

10:53 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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how are you tracking which sites are coming from the Content network?

You need to access your raw logs to see the full referal, but in my case, I made a google search for my full site name exactly as listed in google adwords ads : "www.mysite.com", and then it brought me all these sites.

oldpro

11:38 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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how are you tracking which sites are coming from the Content network? All I see in my stats is:
[pagead2.googlesyndication.com...]

This is all Urchin tells me as far the the reffer?

This same url costs me a few bucks a day. Anybody know what this site is? When I click on the link in my logs a blank page shows.

oldpro

11:41 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

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When you type in the root url...

it displays "nothing to see here!"

doesn't seem on the up and up to me.

fischermx

9:17 pm on Jul 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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When you see an URL starting with "http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads", all that means is that you receive a visit from someone clicking your ad in the content network.