Smells fishy

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by NewCamz, Aug 16, 2006.

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    NewCamz, Aug 16, 2006 IP
  2. jackburton2006

    jackburton2006 Peon

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    What "above suggestion' are you talking about? The "If you find this blog helpful, please support this site by linking to it." text? He's asking people to link to his blog; what's so wrong with that? It has nothing to do with his ads.

    By the way, guys, it helps to come out and TELL us what it is you think the violation is. We're not here to go "violation hunting" with you, okay? Just point it out. :rolleyes:
     
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  3. qwestcommunications

    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    I think he is probably suggesting the method of generating traffic mentioned there is probably against TOS, I could be wrong though.
     
    qwestcommunications, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    Still cant really see an "issue". Blogexplosion is a pretty established outfit. Its aimed at getting bloggers traffic/links from other bloggers. He isnt suggesting, or asking for, any iliicit practice.

    Perhaps the OP can explain what he felt the problem was.
     
    whitespider, Aug 16, 2006 IP
  5. NewCamz

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    OK - following is what I thought against the TOS of AdSense:

    "You can get more traffic to your blog via BlogExplosion in different ways. For every two blogs you visit via BlogExplosion, another will visit your blog. So the more you surf, the more visitors will visit your site. Remember to add a visitors counter to your blog so that you can see the visitors coming in."

    Isn't the above artificial traffic and impressions? I could be wrong - just wanted to be sure.
     
    NewCamz, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    Blog explosion is an auto-surf, and adsense TOS specifically states that auto-surfs are not allowed.
     
    akamaimommie, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    Blog Explosion is not an auto-surf, it is manual surf :) (and btw it has many other blog-related features).

    However I'm not sure if this is allowed by AdSense and I'm using BlogExplosion only on my ads-free blogs.
     
    hanso, Aug 17, 2006 IP