Many web site owners are getting their Google Adsense account terminated when they have done nothing wrong to deserve the punishment. Considering the money that they are getting from Adsense, they would certainly want to get back into it. Considering the money to be made with Adsense, it is no wonder that they would want to get back into it. It is that same consideration why the Google Adsense click fraud is thought of and why many people are getting into it. Click fraud is the act of clicking on ads for the purpose of costing the advertiser money. It is simply the same as paying out cash for false leads. Many people website owners are aware of this fraud and are sharing the same sentiment that this is the one big problem that Adsense is facing. Read the rest of my article here
Click fraud is major. At this moment I've got a website that it appears is being massively scanned, over 20 million times a month, as part of a click fraud activity. It took us weeks to determine that it is being scanned to see if can be used as a proxy or otherwise for use with click fraud. I've got massive logs of the advertisers being defrauded as well as the ad merchants being used. (I finally figured out a way to determine if a visitor is connected with click fraud, but it only works in ASP). I can tell you now, of the millions of records I have AdSense is not listed even once. I think Google is much more proactive in defending against click fraud than anyone else. But my site is being mistakenly probed. I have to think that, if this small site had an AdSense ad on it, Google would detect the activity as click fraud. BTW, in an attempt to get the site's IP address back, I contacted some of the ad merchants. Many, such as AdBrite, not only appeared totally unconcerned, AdBriite seems to condone the practice because they benefit financially from the click fraud! Well, I tried. I have no choice but to go through the hassle of moving the site to a differnet IP address and forget about it. If the ad merchants are complicit, and if the authorities don't care, then I don't care. But I think I'll keep the IP address just for the logs. From the logs, I may write a story about how the industry handles click fraud in the future.