Google Ad Sense Message Boards Fraud

Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.
There are message boards claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. These web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site. This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.
Additionally, Individuals post copy right information about a company on these types of web sites; this is against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.
If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on a particular web site; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw
File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate

 

Thank you for your comments on this one Infomax. Like most forums we do have a limited number of adsense advertisments. I hope by now you have noticed that while we do allow a certain number of ads, we are far more limited than most.

We do try to monitor what appears in these ads to some degree but it is an impossible task to check them all. Most people have a general idea of how this works and will understand the on the same page as we may post a warning against using a registry cleaner for example, there may be an ad for just such a thing.

That being said we also report as many inappropriate ads as we can and google is pretty good at making sure we do not see them again. Sometimes the ad itself may be fine but just not appriate for a general "family friendly" forum such as ours. Your comments on what you, as a member, can do about contacting google is very helpful.

 

I found your post fascinating, infomax467, and thanks for letting us know about things like this - really do appreciate your contribution to our learning!

BeeCeeBee ... this may seem odd but I've never - not once - seen an Ad of any sort here at our site. Perhaps my Firefox has done something automatically? (not complaining, though ).

 

We have advertising however what a guest sees is considerably more than what one gets as a member. Do you have ad muncher or similar software?

 

Not that I know of. I run Avast and Sygate, etc but just installed them 'as is' so now I'm really wondering how I never see ads... hmm.

 

Mara scroll down to the bottom of this page just below the last post, is there a banner ad? Also the google adsense ads appear on the index page in the side bar. If you elect to use the non sidebar alternative there will be no ads.

 

Am going to uninstall and re-install my Firefox and see what happens

 

Mara it makes more sense to just check your add ons and see if there is one that blocks advertisements. Firefox offers one called ABP and there may be others.

 

Yahoo! Or, come to think of it, maybe not 'yahoo' - grin.

Just re-installed my FireFox and now, just below the word 'Tag' at the bottom of the page, a greed strip with an Ad is showing .. at least it's a lovely colour and don't pop onto one's screen (which can be so annoying at some sites).

 

Our posts must have had a wee tea party together and then flipped a coin to see which one landed here on the screen, Barry.