Google Prohibited use

[Good_Vibes]

I have a questions relating to AdSense. In their Terms and Conditions (https://www.google.com/adsense/terms)Google states:

Prohibited Uses. You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) generate fraudulent impressions of or fraudulent clicks on any Ad(s), including but not limited to through the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the fraudulent use of other search engine optimization services

My question is:
What is "The fraudulent use of other search engine optimization services"?

[Sharper]

What is "fraudulent use"?

Pretty much, anything that Google says it is. It's like the percentage you get paid. They don't tell you anywhere and can change it whenever they feel like redefining it.

In this case, as long as you aren't doing anything that might earn you a penalty in Google's SERPs (see the Google forum here), you're probably fine.

If you are, then stop doing it. If you aren't sure, ask in the Google forum, but it's probably bad if it's not clear-cut.

[Jenstar]

This thread, message #234 [webmasterworld.com] gives Google's response about what this means, even though they don't really give much information about it, IMO. The use of WebPositionGold came up as one of the things they were probably referring to, since they specifically mention this in the webmaster guidelines too.

[cornwall]

>>The use of WebPositionGold came up as one of the things they were probably referring to

The 2 things Google appear to dislike with WMG are

1. Doorway pages using the WMG page creator

2. Automated checking of ranking using their ranking checker

As the second does not apply here, I assume that it is the first that, in this instance, they are taking exception to.