Ah ok, with no luck i see...:/ Google really needs to start listening more to those reports, this "Click on the ads" is completely unaceptable...
I might be missing something here but I think that if Google doesn’t take these reports seriously, honest publishers will have the uncomfortable “it’s not fair†feeling. Two weeks is a long waiting period for somebody that saw something wrong, reported it to Google and sees that nothing has happened.
i bealive all of you greedy bastards that dont have the eduaction nor the skills to produce a good enough website to get google ads your self need to quit screwing people over. Your just an ingnorant little child that likes to do wrong to the u.s. economy and soon destroy the interent economy as it is
I can only imagine how many people report sites everyday. Google would go out of business paying people to look at these sites to keep up on a daily basis. Well maybe not out of business...
Are you referring to the owner of the sites that are violating the TOS, which in turn gives the program and other reputable publishers a bad image? Or, are you flogging those who have voiced discontent or even report the site to Google?
Yes, in an ideal world, Google would have a specific staff hired to either temporarily or permanently ban those sites from their program. That's one of the reasons I hesitate being with AdWords sometimes, because of goofs encouraging "who-cares" clicks.
Lol, G is probably gonna wait until payout time and then bust them! That way everyone gets free advertising! woot!
Or just serve the ads until the webmaster removes the code. Does google actually email the person reporting to say the site has been banned?
I don't think so! They just reply to the reporting email saying they are going to analyse the websites in question or something like that
I had got given bad reputation for this topic.. is reporting TOS breach websites bad or something because i thought it was a good thing. Jan 18th 2006 12:34 pm waste of a thread.
Considering one spammer could add 1000 sites in a day it would probably take several employees to look at the 1000 sites. Now consider how many spammers there are, and you will find the task is huge, and why google does not as a rule, hand ban or hand remove individual websites but removes them via algorithimic adjustments. Hope this helps ease the angst...Google employees are no less under the full plate syndrome than anyone else.
You would think that google with all it's resources would be able to program it's crawler to spot these obvious violations. Obviously if the "click ads" text is buried in a graphic, it would be a little harder, but still potentially possible with OCR technology.