Google advertising swapclicks programs

is it me or ...

[walkman]

got one of those "Swap Clicking to Riches" spam emails and wanted to see if the page was indexed on Google. It was. Then I searched for the term and Google is even selling ads for that term. What's wrong with Google? Why would they advertise sites that teach how to rip advertisers off? Seems very short-sighted to me

[Frequent]

I can't believe they would allow it since it is essentially advertising an illegal activity. It must have slipped through the reviewers.

Freq---

[ronmcd]

Depends what you're talking about. Theres a product by a Costa Dedes which uses that same phrase, but its not a fraud product, its just a (poor) page generation software designed to get adsense ads clicked. And hes given it a suspicious sounding name.

Now it could certainly be argued creating sites specifically for adsense is against the TOS, but check if its this product you are seeing ads for: its not fraud. If however you are seeing ads for "click my ad and I'll click yours" type programs, thats fraud.

[AdWordsAdvisor]

Walkman, if you'd send an email with details to AdWords support (to my attention) I'll be happy to forward it to the right team, who will take a close look.

If you do write, please use the subject line "ATTENTION ADWORDSADVISOR - click swap - by request"

And if you'd rather not send it from your account, just use the 'Contact Us' link in the Help Center: [adwords.google.com...]

Thanks in advance!

AWA