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Guess what? It's been 2 weeks. All these websites are still UP and RUNNING google ads. Google did nothing to disable them from the program. So I reported them again, several days ago. And nothing. These websites are still UP and RUNNING displaying google ads and making money.
My question is: Under they system being advocated here, what is to stop my less nimble but more established competition from branding me a “bad” site and have it banded from SE’s, adsense, and even my own computer?
Because if your site isn't doing anything against the Terms of Service, then Google isn't going to kick you out for nothing.
Just because someone says "hey, go look at this site" doesn't mean Google just closes the site down immediately (which seems to be the reason for the first post).
Are low quality sites taking income from you? How do you know? Really, how can you tell?
None of us can really know. We are really just guessing. In fact, the only one that could possible know is Google and they are choosing the status quo by their inaction.
Let the consumers sort this out, let the market work its magic, and finally if it Google is allowing substandard publishers into its system that is Google’s problem.
Stop telling on each other. Take the high road and improve your one site instead finding faults in others.
Some of them do not have any content at all, and yet they display google ads
Dantol, wake up and smell the instant coffee dude!
Google LOVES sites with no content whatsoever and lets them run AdSense on so-called parked domains.
Content isn't king anymore, the most advertising space available for Google is king, didn't you get the memo?
I asked Google to review my own site - they said it complies with Google TOS. They even offered me good compliments by saying they like my web design and structure of my content pages.
Somebody change the title of my post. I opened this post with the title: "AdSense Cheaters". Somebody changed the title to: "Reporting Adsense TOS Problems".
My point being: If I were an advertiser, I would want to know what sites the clicks are coming from and if I found a site that said "click the ads" I would expect Google to refund my money.
They also accepted my adult site after i emailed and asked them, witch i wont use because i could get dobbed on by someone surfing the net, they could then go and let anotehr adsence rep know, who will then close my account.
I think its disgraceful the way Adsense will not police the sites that participate in their program. Right now I would think that Adsense is somewhat remorseful and aware of the way things have gotten out of hand, hence the option they give to Adwords advertisers allowing them to opt off of sites of their choosing.
Dantrol, IMO, should not be judged too harsly for his actions. I happen to agree that his money is being mishandled. The problem is that G should be doing something about it, not Dantrol. He's paying for the service. Why should be have to police it?
Scrapers and scammers are all over Adsense and it's gotten pretty ugly, and now with this update, pretty stupid.
I have no problem with people reporting scammers. Actually, I encourage it. Nobody should have any tolerance for deceit and skulduggery.
And for bigbaddad, what Dantrol is doing is part of the invisible hand of capitalism. I hope you get that.
So chill, eveybody. Google's obviously gone bonkers. No need for evryone else to do so as well.
Peace
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Its a forum, so not many clicks anyway.
The owner before me was able to also.
I don’t think being an informant is in any way a component of the “invisible hand of capitalism”
I do think it is the first step to censorship, and a giant step towards totalitarianism. The road to H*ll is paved with good intentions.
If G is not providing a good service then move on to another advertiser – now that would be the invisible hand of capitalism at work.
Do not lower yourself to the level of those that creep in the night, those that hide in the shadows, those that would gladly cause others pain for the least personal benefits and those useless souls with no honor.
The informant takes a slippery path. At first his goals may be noble and he may truly believe in his cause. But were do you draw the line?
Bottom line: if G is not providing a valuable service then find some one who is. Otherwise mind your business.
An Adwords advertiser pays to advertise their service, if the results aren't great then they will find another service to use (this is the capitalist notion you are referring to). The trouble is, it's not that simple. If there are two publishers, one honest and one corrupt, then the advertiser will most often simply leave the network because the ROI is too low. The corrupt publisher has made his bit of money and moves on to the next, the honest publisher loses a valid paying advertiser.
So, in this case, the only person to benefit is the corrupt publisher (with his "click on my adverts" instructions) and both the advertiser and all other publishers lose out as a result.
Why on earth should either the advertiser or the other publishers sit by and let this happen? We aren't talking about subtle infringements of the TOS based upon content, we are talking about outright theft of money from advertisers to the detriment of all other publishers and the advertiser themselves.
Not to mention the point previously made that it totally encourges content theft (another area Google isn't particularly interested in it seems).
There is no hypocrisy here either, anyone advocating reporting sites that infringe the TOS would be happy to open themselves up to the same scrutiny. Whether Google acts on these reports or not, doesn't make them any less valid an action on the part of those doing the reporting.
