Legitimate Content Providors

Does Adwords care about spyware advertisers?

[BillyS]

Over the past several days, I've noticed quite a bit of traffic from two places. I don't think the moderators will allow me to post the destination websites, so let me try to describe it:

- One has the term "msie" (not M$)
- The second has the term "topx" in it

When visiting both these locations, the website is exactly the same, with the name search at the top. They have categories of advertisements, some of which I would rather not be associated with. In reading up, it appears that this company specializes in hijacking browsers. Disclaimer - not sure if this is true - just what others are saying.

I cannot find any real content on these sites - just a search bar that returns advertisements. To me, it appears that this traffic is low quality. The volume of clicks seems larger than it should be. I have complained to Adwords about it and they gave me the company line describing their process to ensure fraud is not occurring.

Is anyone else seeing this in their logs? Is there anything else I can do, short of removing Content Providers?

[BillyS]

No help with this one?

[Jenstar]

You could click the "ads by google" link on the page(s) in question, and give feedback to AdSense that you think the site should be quality checked or checked for fraudulent clicks. You could also use this:
[google.com...]

I don't think information you report to Adwords usually makes it back to the AdSense team so if it is an issue with an AdSense publisher, you need to bring it up with AdSense.