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1. register a new domain using his contact details
2. build a site that clearly violates the Adsense TOS
3. visit webmaster x's site and get his pub id
4. place ads on the site
Eventually Google is going to see this and could boot him from the program. He'll have a hard time claiming he was innocent when the domain has his contact details on it and his adsense code running on it. From what it sounds like, Google doesn't seem to even listen to webmaster's who've been booted.
Google really should force you to specify which domains your account is associated with before you can place ads on that site.
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Did you ask Google that question?
It logic like this which requires the model to move to pay per aquisition(PPA) rather than pay per click (PPC).
As for blaze's example, that has nothing to do with PPC. That kind of stunt would get a site kicked out of most affiliate programs, not to mention probably get it shut down outright.
You'd have to spam a particular company, CJ doesn't bother policing unless there are complaints from the actual company .. at least that much, as far as I know.
And lord help you if you spammed and mentioned a particular company. It wouldn't be your competitor suing you that you'd need to be worried about..
But yah, in theory you could get sued by a small fry. But it's very very theoretical given the untraceable nature of the net at the moment and the complete lack of support and resources all small fries have.
I get people outright committing credit card fraud on my website, a very very jailable offense. You think I (or anyone) bother's doing anything about it?
It's not because I don't want to.
Trying to hunt down and sue some anonymous individual who used a russian spammer with my various affiliate codes would impossible and impractical.
It is one of the weaknesses of the program that webmasters can get their foot in the door using a decent, upstanding content site and then peddle the code onto a hundred auto-generated site scrapers.
One reason I would like to see the ability of publishers to list the sites that their ads appears on. G knows anyway but it would do away with someone doing the above.
I think this is an excellent idea...hope someone at Google takes it into consideration. It might also get some of these auto-generated spam directories out of play.
getting your oposition dropped from adsense doesnt incresase your traffic or your CTR or therefore your earnings, so why bother?
Mack.
The vast majority of webmasters would never do something like this. Most webmasters want to help one another (as evidenced by WW) but there are always those few who want to ruin it for everyone else.
Doesnt adsense code only work on the registered domain? I thought it showed a PSA otherwise
Nope. That's actually one of the interesting things about Adsense. Once you're in, you can run it on any site that is in compliance with the TOS.
