I already edited it.. was jumping to conclusions a bit too fast because reading that people are doing this makes me so mad.
Yeah exactly the person visit any site from that email, and click ads, the money is going to your account. Moreover the Person who is doing this is a part of security team in india. They had informed the Google in December, however its still active till September when again they tested. So its something quiet Odd.
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Well first of all i am not doing anything illegal or something fishy.. If i had used any of the illegal ways to earn money, i wont even published such news.. because again its going to harm me... im letting other people know what is going around, especially for the users who are using adwords. So i dont think that my adsense should get banned.
This is b.s. you are not allowed to send mass emails out to people. It is considered spam and will get you kicked out of the program.
I think one can do this , by using the server and other methods. So one just need a will on the www. way is going to be there. if i am not wrong from gmail itself you can send around 300-400 emails daily without getting banned.
I want to ask senior members, is there any way that we can get any alternative... as i think many people are using adwords and might felt cheated after this. This is a common issue and i think google must do something regarding this.
haha, have your read any portion of the terms of service from adsense? https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182 Pay attention to the bullet points.
i totally agreed to your point, that one cannot put thier site on the mass email. Now tell me one thing, if the other person is doing for your site, without your permission can you ever think about it or stop him. Now what the guy had done, he just send mass email (using you verbiage's) he had send popular site links, that one can send for getting some useful information. and he was generating revenues. He did not misused any of the things and told the Google about the same. and he himself told that to cancel his account. Google also send him some gifts, which he told the magazine and i will try to put that Pic ASAP. Now my point of starting this thread is that the people who were using adwords and got their ads clicked by some illegal means... What hppnd to those people. WE got to know by the person himself however what if the things are unclear... Somebody had done this for his personal Gain. Guys i am talking about some good broader picture.
I could immediately tell that this wasn't going to work by the title. Adsense + Hack + Large Amount of Money = Ban = Worthless no pointing reading.
You were not able to understand, what i want to show and what i want to tell people. The person who did this had told the google about the same... So there was no way that he had earned money. Now think other prospective, if he never had told the google about what he is doing... i think he might had recd the cheques. The monthly income has been calculated at that time and cheque was ready to come at his premises. Think if tried to fool and earn money... The scenario would be different!!!
Go to your ads right click and copy link target or whatever. the page2ad.google.com or whatever it is. Then just embed that into the email and write the link to go to the forwarding URL that will send them to the site, but at the same time act like a click from your account.