E spotting results within Google!

Has anyone else noticed this?

[lufc1955]

Has anyone else noticed that there is a proliferation, especially in travel searches, of affilliates of the E-spotting PPC search engine? They are beginning to swamp the general results with highly optimised spammy web sites and they are also paying for Google Adwords to drive traffic to their sites. Once someone clicks on a search result the affilliate makes money. In my view this is diluting the results of the Google search and means in many cases that Google users will end up using E-spotting and the advertiser will pay for the priveledge of being clicked on. Ok, this may mean more traffic but probably on keywords that the advertiser never wanted in the first place. How these affiliates make it pay is beyond me too. They appear to be able to make a profit even though they are paying for Google adwords. I know that Google makes money from these affilliates but I think Google should ban these sites. Anybody else agree?

[Mike_Mackin]

If you have spam to report, please report it to Google. We are not the Google spam reporting system or the place to "shop the competition" knowing that Google techs may read it. Posting someone elses url is no different than violating them by posting their name and address. That includes posting of Google search terms.

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[lufc1955]

I wouldn't and haven't posted a url. Sorry, but it was the principle of PPC affilliates within Google that I wanted opinions on.

[europeforvisitors]

Mike_Mackin wrote:

If you have spam to report, please report it to Google. We are not the Google spam reporting system or the place to "shop the competition" knowing that Google techs may read it. Posting someone elses url is no different than violating them by posting their name and address. That includes posting of Google search terms.

Lucf1955 didn't "report spam," post any URLs, or post any Google search terms. Can't we keep this discussion on topic?

[makemetop]

Google has been spidering and displaying PPC affiliate sites for years. Every so often they purge them - this is a Google spidering problem and nothing to do with the PPC affiliate IMHO. Take it up with them.

[GoogleGuy]

Hmm. Yah, a spam report might do some good here.