I seen many adsense sites with pure content

Some are spamming just for adsense

[zeus]

I thought they watch carefully who used there ads, I see a lot of sites that is only consentrated on adsense, the sites are of very little text, rest links to other domains or pages on the same site with the google adsense at the top, do they realy accept that or is that also a thing they cant control these days.

[ferrari0george]

well i am not sure, but if they wanted to stop it, its not just one site is billions!

[beren]

I thought they watch carefully who used there ads

On the contrary. Anything goes at AdSense.

[europeforvisitors]

Their standards are certainly loose. I'd expect this to create an opportunity for a future competitor, unless Google does the obvious thing and introduces a tiered structure with options ranging from "run of network" (the potluck mixture that advertisers get now) to hand-vetted "AdSense Gold" or "AdSense Select" sites.

[martinibuster]

As an advertiser, I don't give a damn as long as it converts.

As a publisher, I just don't give a damn, period. ;)

[ownerrim]

Too many times when I'm searching I wind up on some crap site that has nothing but 3 blocks of adsense at the top and a scraped section of links and text (or non-links and text) either at the bottom or at the side of the page.

Finding this garbage every once in a while--well, fine. but finding it ALL the time...the effect is to turn people off and inhibit search activity, which isn't good for google, users, publishers, or advertisers.

I like the idea of vetted sites, especially if such sites received a somewhat healthier slice of the pie.
This would have the effect of encouraging and rewarding the development of sites that truly cater to users, rather than autogenerated garbage. The truth is, solid content takes a considerable amount of time to produce. But when it IS put online users value it and adsense should too.

90% of anything is pure crap. That applies to the web. But it would be in google's long-term interest to encourage better site content by rewarding it.

[Jenstar]

AdSense went through a massive publisher clean-up at this time last year - I am curious to see if they are going to make the same undertaking this year as well.

If you don't like what you see, you can always send an email to AdSense support with the URL, and they will send a quality checker to the site to check it out, and make sure it is in compliance with the terms and policies. You can also click the "Ads by Google" link as well.

I don't feel that AdSense has an "anything goes" policy. But when publishers sign up with a clean content site, then put it on spam sites after they are approved, it can be hard for them to find all those sites and pages, because I am sure they don't have the man (or woman!) power to run compliance checks on each and every site or page. They probably do rely on people turning in "publishers gone bad" to a certain degree, along with some of their internal checks as well.

If you don't like what you see, you can do something about it - other than complaining that is ;) Otherwise, those same sites will continue to run AdSense forever.

[Atomic]

I found a bunch of these by following my referrals and this one publisher had at least 10 of these for obscure search terms. I was starting to consider alerting Google or contacting this individual to demand the removal of my links when the sites all suddenly disappeared. Luckily, a few offenders are probably creating most of these so when Google finds them they are just...gone! This is hardly anything goes. These sites waste everyone's time and Google seems almost eager to eliminate fraud. If they didn't who would want to advertise on their network?

[europeforvisitors]

These sites waste everyone's time and Google seems almost eager to eliminate fraud. If they didn't who would want to advertise on their network?

A low-quality "made for AdSense" site isn't necessarily committing fraud. It's likely to be a poor value for the advertiser, though, especially if the site is designed to maximize clickthrough rates by confusing or entrapping users. (Examples: Borderless ads that blend into the background and are placed in the left column of the page where users may confuse the ads with navigation links, or pages that have very little content and no obvious exit path except for the ads.)