Yeah that must be the reason. It's not like this thread is just adding to the already low signal to noise ratio at DP. I'm finished with eating now and I'm now going to work!! on my sites a little.
at the moment he's breaking two major rules. 1. he's asking people to visit the sponsors. 2. he redirects people to a page which has no content, just adsense ads. i really don't have much a problem with that, honestly. if i'd stumbled across the page and it originally looked like that, i would have moved on. but he changed the page when i emailed him and scared the crap out of him. originally the page said to click on two ads, then push the back button on your browser and refresh, and the sex tape will start. he thinks he's smooth, and personally i think if he's still pulling tricks like that he's got to be doing other things to defraud adsense, on other websites he owns.
i don't know why they do it, it seems genuinely stupid and a waste of time. but i do think they get paid occasionally, i know of times when it's happened. there are publishers, like me, who work 14 hours a day putting up a website that will attract and maintain visitors and generate real clicks. then there's guys who spend a couple of hours trying to make the same amount of money, and dragging everybody else down at the same time.
1 single mail from the finder should suffice to "G". They may even bump your ads relevancy up a little better.
Did he steal Kim's video from you This comment was the one which made me think that u just crossed it there. (and here i referred to Kathy)
Maybe it's the one where he said "visitors to our sponsors are appreciated" is what the OP is refering to But I think I missed the page and he already deleted it or something, I am redirected to a 404 page with tittle line Mesothelioma, Personal Injury, debt, tex... where I can see only a Google search bar form
he was originally telling people to click on two ads, and then the download would start automatically. i scared the hell out of him with an email, so he changed the page to say please visit our sponsors. the page you're being redirected to isn't a 404 page, he's purposely sending people to that search page.
Well, I was also guessing like that. GoodWork mate btw, his index page on mike-oliver.com is also removed now I think
WoW nice work guys i didn't thought emails from us ppl could get ppl banned ! but what do u think there are many more websites that use Adsense and dont follow Adsense TOS what do u think will ppl report them ?
He's banned already : http://www.google.com/custom?q=xbx&...:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1&hl=en The google search with adsense tells this.