Have you ever thought of sabotaging someone?

I just wonder if anyone here has thought of sabotaging some of the sites that you know they are for AdSense rather than for users? I hate them personally and will do my best to find out any violation of the ToS in their site and report it to the AdSense Team (though they seldom take action).

 

Do you really have that much time

 

It takes less thana minute to do so. Just wild click on the ads and drive up his/her CTR and AdSense will be keeping an eye on his account for sure.

 

And what ? They will see you are using the samo IP and just will ignore you

 

I disagree, AdSense do filter double clicks but for link units, they can hardly filter out click coming from the same IP. And by this, their CTR will go extremely high.

And by the way, I strongly oppose the idea of sabotage and I'm just asking if you have thought of it only. I should change the thread title to "Do you hate spam AdSense sites". Sorry about that.

 

Heh, hope the saboteur isn't an Adsense or Adwords user that checks their account from the same IP....

 

If yes? I don't get the consequences ...

 

I personally think thats not right or nice thing to do What i would do if i find out any violation is email the webmaster and let them know about it rather then google however if i am sure that webmaster is aware of that policy and is violating it knowingly then i would just email google about it rather then clicking on their ads.
Now you clicked on somebody's ads like 1000 times and then you login to your account with same ip guess what would happen

 

keithchan.. You will win ban And get google really angry.
They are tracking IPs, dont worry about them, you cant do nothing about this
Ask your friends to click 10000 times on your ads and you will see what will happen
You CAN NOT get banned for this(or at least if google dont know the previous sentance ).

 

Yea, of course it isn't nice to sabotage anyone. But sometimes I am really fed up with Google when they don't treat the violation reports for users seriously but then ban some advertiser's (heard many of it in DP) account easily. You got your point, jaree.

 

If google has the intelligence and tracking to be able to ban you based on invalid clicks on your own site, I bet they could just as easily ban your accounts for intentional invalid clicks on someone else's site.

While MFA's are annoying, they often have so little time and duplicate content put into them that without serious spam tactics, they can be easily outranked by a competitor who wishes to, with a real site.

 

You are talking about the dream scenario Telmari, is real situation, MFA's often take over real sites making the AdSense system less effective. Say like the word "Free", you ofter click on ads because they claim they service is free but after you visit their site, you find out you have to make a purchase before it becomes free. It is unfair to those who are really providing free of charge service. I just hope the Adwords landing page issue can improve the situation.

 

Thought of committing clickfraud? No, it's totally illegal.

If you're trying to sabotage others by clicking on their ads crazily, chances are you'll get your AdSense account banned.

Now if only AdWords advertisers would get banned for clicking on their competitor's ads...

 

Hmm, I'm not sure about that. I was mainly referring to being ranked in a search engine. I guess I tend to feel that sites that are MFA's would likely have less work put into them in terms of link building, overall/total SEO, and thus would likely be not nearly as likely to appear in the top over someone who was truly optimizing for that keyword or phrase. I guess conversly, I would tend to believe that a site which ranks very highly for a competitive keyword would therefore also tend to not be a MFA site, unless they have used excessive spam, black-hat SEO tactics, etc etc. Maybe I'm naive, but I tend to believe while fallible, search engines generally do a fairly good job of rejecting sites which haven't had any time put into them over sites which have had lots of time and content put into them.

 

Yes, but only for those who spam my inbox with their made-for-adsense-websites.

I've tried to email about spammers, but till now i got no response at all.

 

I wonder how many people hear back from AdSense for their abuse reports. I have never heard back from them (excluding the must-receive canned reply).

 

This is just blatantly wrong. You have to be a pretty immoral human being to do that.

 

Yeah that is really lame. Going out of your way to screw people who've
never hurt you...nice one. How about minding your own business ? Maybe use your surplus of free time on your own adsense campaigns.

 

I will not sabotage such sites. But, I will stop going to sites which contains a abundance of links to such sites.

I have noticed increasingly that older, expiring domains are being grabbed up by MFAers and their ilk and turned into sites where every outbound link is an ad. Sadly, these sites are well representing in equally old sites which try to link people with useful resources.

I wish people would check the links in their link directories and start killing access to such sites. It diminishes the value of those originating sites.

 

I find it best to let others do it; if I were to try, I would end up with bad luck.