How do I Report Adsense Problem?

[designaweb]

Hi,

How do I report someone who is abusing Adsense? I have reported a few of this spammer's domains already, but is there any way to specifically report adsense abusers?

[whoisgregg]

Why report Adsense abuse?

If you're an Adwords advertiser and are unhappy with the quality of only certain members of the "content network."

If more adwords advertisers read threads like this, adsense publishers might just see their revenue stream dry up -- regardless of the quality of your site.

[alika]

Read this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Even without others reporting to G "questionable" publisher sites, many advertisers are opting out of the content network. Those who report "questionable" publisher sites are of the belief that it is better to bring to G's attention the sites that may be violating the TOS or downgrading the image of the program BEFORE an advertiser sees that site and decide to pull out of the content network.

It is not about minding one's own business, because one's hanky panky business can and may affect all our businesses. Those who report sites don't and will not care if one's hanky panky only affects oneself; but it if will lead advertisers to pull out of the content network because of one's hanky panky, then they feel the need to do something about it.

And please, it is not only newbies who break the rules. I have seen sites by experienced Internet people break the rules, who may think "they can get away with it."

[ownerrim]

There are an incredible number of crap sites in adsense. Emphasis on "incredible" and "crap". In fact, it's pretty amazing how useless these sites are to users. And,yes, they do an amazing amount (in my opinion) of brand-value damage to google. But how did these sites get in to adsense in the first place? Admittedly, if I was an advertiser I'd be pissed that my budget was being drained by this kind of crud. But...this is google's fault and responsibility. I guess I wouldn't have a problem with the worst of the worst being reported, but I think the "ratter" sometimes has an agenda of his or her own, or has an opinion about net etiquette that may not bear up to scrutiny. Still, it's obvious that adsense falls short on quality standards for its advertisers and, ultimately in a related way, for its publishers.

[beren]

Yep, it's in the interest of legit AdSense publishers for the crap sites to disappear. And if you don't think there are many of them, you're not looking in the right places.

But try to tell that to the people here and they're all: Snitch!

[gethan]

Unfortunately I think many who visit this forum are mostly interested in gaming AdSense. Maximising revenue from crap content - looking for things like "I made adsense look like my navigation and my CTR doubled" - really - and what did your user think about this deception?. It's short-term thinking.

Sitescrapers and the like: I don't look for this crap - in fact I don't want to see it - but if I do I report it. And if more internet users did the same, both in adsense and the serps - they would work on algo changes to make these sites invisible - I'm sure they are. Goodbye visitors, goodbye money.

This is why the anti-snitchers are so vocal...

Positive: work on my site.
Positive: report a sitescraper.

[Born_User]

Gethan,

Why do you want to bust on someone that doubled their clickthrough by making adsense blend more into the design and color scheme of their site? 2 months ago, Adsense sent us all little flip booklets, to encourage us to do certain things; some of which was to try new things, change ad colors, put more than one ad block on our page, try the ad blocks in different places, etc.

[Born_User]

Unfortunately I think many who visit this forum are mostly interested in gaming AdSense

What's this? What does "gaming adsense" mean? That's the strangest thing I've ever heard.

Adsense is here to make us (and them) money. Just like the stock market, investment banking, real estate speculation, etc. It's all gaming. Isn't it?

And, if it's not gaming, then... what is it? Are you building sites and promoting adsense just to be nice? I have a feeling that you're in it for the same reason that I am - to make money. "gaming adsense". I don't get that.

[patski]

Now that g00gz is a public company and has to meet wall street's growth expectations who knows what they'll do next... I keep expecting to get an email from them telling me it's ok to use 6 adsense blocks and here are some helpfull fluorescent colour codes.... and here is our new 200x1200 tower....

[gethan]

> Why do you want to bust on someone that doubled their clickthrough by making adsense blend more into the design and color scheme of their site?

Never said that. I'm all for good design and making advertising noticed by visitors. I report sitescapers and spam.

> What's this? What does "gaming adsense" mean?

Short term disposable site, drive by advertising at the expense of attracting users by having a quality site/service/content.

> That's the strangest thing I've ever heard.

I don't believe that ;)

> Are you building sites and promoting adsense just to be nice?

Yes. But I have bills to pay as well, and I'd like the sites to have a longterm future, introduce new features - this costs money - adsense is one of the less intrusive ways for a site to generate it.

[Born_User]

Well, gethan. That's great. The SEO world, like life, needs balance I suppose.

It's clear that you're a purist. There's nothing wrong with that, of course.

Most of us are more in the middle, I would suspect.

But there needs to be that "purist" fringe element balancing out the extreme black hat guys. Keep it up.

[recordc48]

Gethan, I just hope that you would report the issues you have with a site to the site owner if possible instead of snitching them out. That would be the right thing to do in my eyes. That person might sincerely want their site to follow all guidelines and might not know if they are in violation. Not everybody is a perfect web designer or optimizer. By the way I am speaking from experience.