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Constant Attacks from Parking Site

Is there anything I can do?

         

sailorjwd

12:27 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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There's a parking site out there with a search box on it.

I'm getting more than 100 clicks (3-5% of total clicks) from this site everyday that go nowhere and go basically to the same page each time.

They have links to gambling searches.

There is no other content on the page other than a seach box.

I've contacted Adwords & Adsense support and am basically totally ignored.

I don't want to switch off the entire search network.
Can't exclude the site.
Can't exclude by keywords.

Does anyone know anything I can do?

Spudstr

1:35 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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i believe there is an option where you can put in a list of up to 25 domains to not be displayed on.

sailorjwd

6:26 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the thought but as I said in the original post you can't use the exclusion list since this is using Google search to get the adverts.

Any body else?/

elsewhen

9:07 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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sailor... how about adding some negative keywords that are unique to that page. i am sure that you can find some words on that page that have nothing to do with your keyword...

it should work in theory.

sailorjwd

9:15 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Sorry but perhaps folks don't understand how Seacrch sites work... the pass a search string to Google and get back the adwords ads that would normally appear on Google search.

When you look at you logs you can't tell they are even an Adsense site - no publisher Id.. or anything. You can't figure it out until you go to the site and see that there is no javascript for the ads.. they are hard coded html links.

The pages are generated on the fly when someone types in a search string. I'd be happy to give you the url in a sticky if you want to see.

So there's no negative site ability and no keyword blocking. The only thing I can do is disable all search - which means everything but Google search and I'm not sure even that will work since they are going through google search.

I don't even know if what they are doing is legal.

I called my special support person about it last week. they were to get back to me last friday with an answer... today is?

A few hours ago I did drop search so I will check and see if there clicks to my site have gone away.

elsewhen

10:13 pm on Jun 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

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sailor... i misread your post - i mistakenly thought it was just in the html of a parked site from the title of the thread. my bad.

sorry, i can't think of a way to avoid that.