How to complain about TOS violation?

[fiasco]

I have sent several emails to Google about this site

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and all I get is silence. Am I wrong to assume this is a TOS violation? As someone who pays for the clicks on my ads, it shocks me to see this kind of page being served on and nobody responds to compaints.

[edited by: Jenstar at 6:11 am (utc) on Sep. 3, 2005]
[edit reason] No "outting" of publisher sites please, as per charter [/edit]

[Lex_Luther]

Doesn't look like any thing wrong to me. Do you think thier is a mandatory word count or something?

Just out of coriosity, does google pay you, or do you work for them for free?

[loganz]

yeah i dont see anything wrong with it.. it technically does have content.. i dont know

[Laker]

As someone who pays for the clicks on my ads,

are you saying your ads appear on that site?

If so, why not just filter/ban the site?

[James]

It is a made for adsense page. The content is supposed to be significant content which will provide a useful user experience.

[fiasco]

Well, isn't there something in the TOS that says you can't put up a page just for serving adsense? I mean really, does this look like a website to you? Remove the adsense, do you think this page would exist? Does it have any other purpose than showing an ad?

I don't know what "does Google pay you or do you work for them for free" means. I don't work for Google, but I purchase Adwords clicks, and when I see pages like this, it makes me want to unclick all the "content site" boxes.

[Knappster]

Since there is no contact info given, I suppose the site violates the "Site Responsiveness" part of TOS:

Sites must respond adequately to support requests and enquiries of their users.

[aeiouy]

Although it may not technically be against the TOS, it is the kind of page that is hurting the adsense program.

It is clearly useless as any sort of resource on any topic. If I came across that page because of a search I would be mad for having had my time wasted.

That is, unfortunately what passes for a lot of content this day.

Considering some of the real egregious violations out there, don't hold your breath expecting them to do anything about sites like that.

Unfortunately the goal is to have so little content that people click on ads because they have no other choice. Perhaps if they make the smart pricing harsh enough it will eventually do away with such sites, especially when clicks get narrowed down to fractions of a cent.

I am sure someone will pipe up and tell me that they get good click-through rates from such sites, or that they are delivering quality visitors, but I don't buy it.

By the way ever try to sell someone who is pissed off? It is possible in person or on the phone as you can use it to your advantage and talk them down. They hit your site after being pissed off and they are likely to just remain pissed off.

[Dantol]

send your complaints to:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[MarkHutch]

You may be getting silence because they are not breaking the rules, in Googles opinion and that's the only one that counts.

[david_uk]

Or that adsense simply will not kick out sites if they have an adwords account.

I've reported a couple of sites for having "Click on the ads" and they've dealt with them. I've also reported a site that I took quite a large hit on adsense earnings/smartpricing that has no content whatsoever (prior to blocking it) and guess what? After a series of emails to support/abuse it's still online unchanged. Thankfully smartpricing has also finally recovered.

I don't work for Google, but as a publisher that was being hit by smartpricing for some of the junk they target, I feel that trying to help Google is not "Working for google for free" but protecting my adsense earnings.