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While reporting aviolation of TOS

should i include my email address or not?

         

stardoc

3:46 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello everyone.

Today while browsing, I came across a website which was displaying 4 units of adsense and one unit of adlinks on hundreds of pages which contained only one or two lines of content. If that was not enough, it carried a red graphic saying "hottest links" over the leaderboards. Well, it did annoyed me to a degree that I clicked the feedback link to report the TOS violation. In that form there is an optional field to provide your email address. Although I posted my report anonymously, I want to know about others. Do you guys post these violations anonymously or leave your email address there in google feedback form? I thought and could not think of any serious reasons against doing that (still I could not muster the coyrage to fill it!).

Sanenet

4:04 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Even if you don't use your main adsense email, I'd still add it. It's just plain good manners. Plus, it probably makes them take it a bit more seriously.

Maxima

4:09 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Well has anyone actually got a reply from google after reporting a website?

I did report a few and I just got an auto confirmation saying that my complaint has been received and nothing afterwards.

sonny

4:15 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

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you had enough "courage" to report them.

ann

4:21 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Yep, standard canned reply. Thank you and we will improve our blah blah to catch blah blah.

Don't bother putting my email in now as I hate writing email addys

Ann

david_uk

5:15 pm on Oct 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I've had success in the past with getting them to deal with a few sites that said "Click on the ads". Nearly all of them now comply with the TOS - one got booted.

However, I've given up reporting any form of TOS violations these days. Primarily because there is a site that breaks the vast majority of Adsenses TOS, and despite several emails as both publisher and advertiser the site is still there serving ads. Typical site - no content just adsense / adlinks boxes on the page, back button disabled.

If they won't deal with that level of TOS violation, I fail to see how reporting any form of violation does any good. They have simply lost the plot.