No wonder he was making $2100 a month. I could barely make $1 per day even with a decent amount of traffic.
From his site stats, it looks like he is getting about 20000 targeted unqiues per month. Even without the cheating, he could probably maintain a good CTR with some optimization. This is very unfortunate for him.
Is this news article about this same guy and the Barre Tire site? http://timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041212/NEWS/412120351/0/FRONTPAGE
wow, good find. It is definitely related. Don't know if it is the actual poster but the article talks about Todd Hebert and the domain name is registered under him. I also read the guy's last post. I'm thinking about it and I honestly think the guy didn't know what he was doing. He was dumb but I don't think he intentionally tried to cheat Adsense. If he was intentionally cheating he would not have listed his site up to tell everyone in the first place. Goes to show you shouldn't completely trust someone over the internet without some verification by a third party.
I wonder ... banned at Automotive Forums An unusual post in a Linux User Group's Kernel forum and from the mailing list But based on writing style I have problems reconciling the guy writing on this forum with this Todd Hebert (who has a decent command of english grammar) and again Todd talks about his daughter's quad racing as littlerascalsracing and coming across as a regular guy. I wonder if Todd decided to trust one of these young guys who visit his store and let them run the website and now the kid is flipping out because his boss will find out what he's done!
If that's the case, someone should contact that poor guy and tell him what was done to his site as unatractive as it is. I'd hate for someone to do that to my site. You have to be so careful who you let touch your code.
Guys, sorry, but maybe it's enough? Too much attention to this cheeting resource. Always in the tops of forum... Thanks
I would guess that the person who got the site banned was someone looking after it for Todd. Probably someone young, and I imaigne Todd would be dismayed to know what is/was going on with his site.
He was cheating, clearly violating the TOS and he got banned. There is really nothing to add here. 22 pages for this clear case ! this is not general chat forum guys. so enough.
Yeah, but if it was some young gun screwing it up for the owner we're allowed to show empathy! And it's all contained in a single thread so allow us our 22 pages. You're not obliged to read them or participate. Shawn might complain though, it's chewing up valuable bits and bytes on his webserver.
Yeah, this has gone to far.. All of this negetivity is not good..I'm sure he and everyone else that's cheating knowingly or unknowingly get the point now..Danny
Well Rob, We all know you reported me however I want yout to know that I recieved the check today, After they researched this I did get banned and now it is being investigated as far as being reincluded, However Google found that not one person clicked on the ad's that you say I was scamming Google and therefore I received my check today for the full amount....Just thought you would like to know...
So they've ok'ed the income but confirmed that the technique (which obviously didn't work anyway) is not?
Absolutely correct and as I have said in previous posts. This so called technique was set up by someone else. Irregardless it was stupid the links were set to images that noone would click on anyhow.. If someone was trying to scam adsense to make money you would think they would be linked to images that someone would click on. Don't you think...Either way I am glad that google investigated this and saw what really happened..If I end up getting reinstated I am not sure that I will use Adsense again anyhow. YPN seems to be much better .
Except there were. There was the text "Search All Tires" where search all linked to an internal page and Tires was to the adsense link. It's quite reasonable that people might click on that. I guess it comes down to the fact that you get what you pay for - and sometimes it pays to use professionals. After all I wouldn't get tyres from my neighbour - I go to a proper tyre bay.