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It is similar to how many people have currently been reporting AdSense sites. Simply view the violating page, click "Ads by Google" or "Ads by Gooooogle", and on the following page, be sure to enter "spamreport" into the comment field, as well as including the specific violation.
You can do it anonymously, or include your email address if you wish. And with the "spamreport" keyword, it will go to the team in charge of quality checking AdSense sites.
I've filed out a 100 of them and don't think anything was done with a single one. If they would just look at my negative site lists in adwords they'd find 150 of them.
Couldn't Google make turn this into a tick box instead? Not too many will know to do the above.....
Which begs the question, why don't they?
Jenstar, did he actually reference scraper sites when he announced this?
I have a lot of ads that seam very very relavant to my page, but are junk with NOTHING relevant if you check them out.
It would be the easiest thing in the world for G to do this. They could put a "report this site for spam" button on their toolbar or something then provide a few drop down options to make it sooooo simple for people to do it.
They have the vote buttons, when I see a spam site I vote numerous times with the :( and than fill out a spam report.. No Help... The spam stays and the good guys have to suffer or go spammy also. :(
Yeah, why bother? I did the same thing, none of the offenders were removed. Unfortunately, Google can't control the amount of spam and cheating that is going on with Adsense program.
I'm just speaking from 1 experience when I reported this free hosting site that bascially said, "Signup, click our ads, for every $50 in ad clicks we get we will offer someone a free hosting account in the order in which they are received." I reported this many times and 2 months later .. it's still there!
But now, if you use the "spamreport" as the title, it should go to the appropriate people who are only now going to be concentrating on getting rid of the junk.
Why not just use my button idea? These reports could be channelled to the right people no problem and it would also make it easier and quicker for anyone raising the report.
Spam is a massive problem and if they are serious about encouraging reporting of it then they should make it as easy as possible for people to do this.
If they just started closing down accounts of some of the worst offenders, word would get around and people would start policing themselves to protect their accounts.
Allthough most of the sites I reported are still alive with adsense on them, I still somehow have faith that Google will eventually go down hard on them.
Just clicked the "Ads by Google" and told them everything. Now that I think of it, it proby went to their feedback department who had no clue of issues like these, but the lest they could do if forward it to the right person. Anyway I have no idea what ended up happening but I'm sure Google did the right thing as they're no longer in business as I check now
AdSense has always nominally had feedback for complaints. I've probably complained about a hundred sites (never scrapers because there are too many, and I don't think Google cares), and I always get an automated reply how they'll look into it. Actually, they always promise to "forward [my] concerns to a team of specialists."
Yeah. Right. It means nothing.
I've got some "Click my ads" sites dealt with this way. Oddly enough, Google rarely dumps them, as the webmaster usually removes the offending inducement. Clearly G *does* try and work with publishers by warning them before they cut them off.
