I think Google should introduce a feature in the Adsense Panel that will allow publishers to report TOS violators directly to Google Employees as a 'hot lead'. This would be a strong stance for Google to take and would show the big advertisers that Google were trying to reduce all instances of TOS violations and improve both advertiser leads and visitor experiences. Rewards would be relative to the scale of the abuse... Common TOS violations: 1. Multiple Contextual advertising on the same page 2. MFA automated scraper sites - hiding scraped content below 3 blocks of google ads etc 3. Requests for people to 'support' them by visiting sponsor links 4. Add your common experiences on TOS violators
I disagree. There are so many people already helping out -- such as myself -- that are more than happy to do it for free. I want to support Google and keep the advertiser/publisher base clean. Google doesn't need to pay people to find stuff because it's already being done.
How about somewhere to submit sites selling click-fraud tools...? It'd probably work like the referrals system - if your lead ends up with google busting the person selling the software you get say, $100. It'll probably save google a lot more in risk-management.
If Google is spending millions on free wireless access, I guess what you said won't hurt them and would greatly reduce bad practices.. Peace,
People would abuse it by creating shill adsense accounts with obvious violations and then 'report it'. Not a good idea.
No, that is not what I meant. I meant it was using Adsense + other contextual advertising companies. One site I seen had 3 google adsense blocks stacked vertically, a google link unit under it and then had to scroll down a long way to find some scraped content that had kontera contextual adverts as well as having chitika and amazon I think. Also, I should have said reward rather than Pay ... and it could go towards publisher trust levels, obviously people caught abusing the system would have their account terminated.
I disagree furst there would be lots of abuse among competingt sites then helping to keep OUR world clean never needs to be paid or rewarded I consider it part of common community service Google has already means to report peacefully and w/o reward TOS violation - before dooing so it might be good idea to first inform the webmaster of that site reporting bad behavior always is delicate matter and should be handled very carefully and only if direct contact ends without immediate correction of any clear TOS violation in all past I have reported only once a TOS violation and that was a large site having apparently an unlimited number of empty machine created pages built around search queries without search results and only for adsense dispaly and no relevant content at all
i think google will be swamped by reports - whether genuine or not - and that'll increase administrative costs... which would ultimately be passed to the publishers...