18th million 4 adsense cheater(s)

There are two sides - The product and the affiliates

The product is basically a program that scrapes another site and adds your AdSense code into it. His pitch is the money you make via AdSense.

The affiliate side is reselling this program and making a percentage of every copy you can get someone to buy.

The thread is more about Costa Dedes and his threat to sue anyone talking about the program in this thread. The original post was because someone was recieveing Spams selling the program.

The thread died until Costas Dedes threatened Shwan with a lawsuit if he didn't take it down. Now its huge and is starting to rank more and more.

There is a sucker born every minute and many people want to get rich without any effort so they buy programs like this. THere are tons of them out there

 

I went to a site called http://www.marketingsyndrome.com - because I googled SWAPCLIX in hopes of trying to figure out exactly what Costa Dedes was selling. The guy who runs that blog has up a "site template" that includes an adsearch. Are such adsearchs allowed in the TOS?

Seems to be that this Costa fellow is causing a lot of drama here

 

All I can see there is he is selling Costa Dede's program through an affiliate link

Not sure what you mean by "Are such adsearchs allowed in the TOS?"

I don't know the "AdSearch" that you are reffering to

 

Unfortunately, I don't think he has learned much from this. Maybe he has? At least the tone of his posts appear to have changed from the earlier ones. A few reasonably argued / discussed posts would have gone a long way ... probably still could. Or am I being naive?

 

And there is more from Costa Dedes..

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=2374&goto=nextoldest

Spotted by Nick W from threadwatch last xmas

 

Ugh... What some people would do for money, I hate these things. Great going on that $1 a day google adwords campaign - very considerate of you to point people to this thread so they're alerted

Adi.

 

Looks like it may be slipping

Costa Dedes #6
Costa Dedes Not on first page
Costa Dedes #2 and #3

MSN is no surprise there

 

I think I found a page that uses his "tool". I am pretty sure it's his own. Check this out!

http://www.youracnehelp.com/newsletters/issue13.html

Looks like Co-Op is used as well!

 

I sure hope those links arn't co-op! If they are, then why do sites like

ofthetruth.com/cheap-cruise-rate.html

get in??!!!!

Edit: Ugggg!!! I reload the page and a DP link shows uf there!!!! What happened to quality??!!!!

 

I'm seeing indented results on Google.. both one and two for Costa Dedes:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-47,GGLD:en&q=Costa+Dedes

 

Yeah, it made a huge comeback. Partially fueled by Costa Dedes starting a thread using his name

There are also Number 1's for:

costa dedes scam
costa dedes adsense banned - Nearly beat out by a warrior forum post

and my personal favourite:
costa dedes hates you

 

Earlier in the thread I was asking to give this guy a little slack but the more I read up on the subject he seems to deserve all the bad press he gets, just hope he doesn't get any conversions out of it.

 

I suspect all this exposure is actually helping his sales...Not sure if that will be the case long term or not.

I only started looking into his software and other dealings more and more because he decided to threaten me early on. I probably would have grown bored quickly if not for that (as well as others)

I basically decided if he was going to sue me, I might as well find out what I was up against. Low and behold his "huge legal team" was his father and he never even bothered to file a single thing.

His taunting of Shawn was funny as he never even followed up with all his threats.

To each is own, but if someone goes around threatening to sue you if you even mention their name (at that point it wasn't even negative), they deserve what they get if they push you to fight back.

Costa Dedes thought he could rule by intimidation. It seems to have worked in other forums but luckily Shawn isn't like other forum owners

 

Costadedes swapclix is a pure scam like envolope stuffing..long on the promise short on the delivery and full of hot air

 

Have you tried it?

 

It is nothing like envelope stuffing...You may want to read the thread before jumping on the bandwagon.

I'm all for putting Costa Dedes software under scrutiny but at least take a look at what it does. I don't think I have ever used the word Scam (only posted the SE results). My main concern is his threatening behaviour but my issue with his software was its potential to get you an AdSense ban.

That has nothing to do with the "Envelope Stuffing" type of scams

 

No, but it is obvious..reading the sales copy

 

yfs1 puts it very well:

 

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

COSTA DEDES #1 ON GOOGLE.
SWAPCLIX #1 or #2 depending on Datacenter