As a business, how do you handle large accounts acting up?

[bakedjake]

Found this today while looking through some referrer reports:

[tucows.com...]

In fact, there's about 200K of them:

[search.yahoo.com...]

Straight out of Google's AdSense Program policies:

No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages. This includes error, login, registration, "thank you" or welcome pages.

As an advertiser, this BS pisses me off, especially when it's ranking for non-insignificant terms.

Yes, I know that some of you are going to step forward and claim that it may be a bug, tucows didn't mean to expose it, etc., etc., etc... But it lowers my faith in AdSense as an advertising network when they don't police this stuff.

Anyone going to be submitting traffic from AdSense via tucows for review as clickfraud? This is getting crazy.

[Jenstar]

They run their AdSense in iframes, and their iframe URLs ended up getting indexed, which is what you see in the serps. They created a new iframe for each download they offer on their site, it seems.

They are a premium publisher, and their publisher ID uses the term XML in it, so they could also be beta testing an XML feed application with those individual iframes being used.

[bakedjake]

Thanks Jen.

What stops them, then, from promoting these ad-only pages in the search engines? Is that allowed, simply because they are a premium publisher?

[Jenstar]

No, they are not allowed to be promoting them. But it makes it harder for advertisers to figure out exactly what page their ad was appearing on, unless you track it through the #.

They don't seem to be ranking though, even if they are in the index.

[bakedjake]

They don't seem to be ranking though

They are in Yahoo. I'll have a word with my rep today.

[MikeNoLastName]

I would say they do not appear to be very well targeted terms either based on the page titles. I see "Learn Hungarian" ads all over what appear to be automotive review pages for example.