Google changed their Adsense product significantly last night

Yesterday I found a digg entry about getting any Adsense account banned… and it got 333 diggs… WOW... that must contain interesting news….

Adsense click spam sent thru wrong configured affiliate mailing list

scummy mail screenshot gotten from gmail to ask for clicking on adsense to stop spam

If you every wondered how click fraud works, or how small webmasters can get other webmasters being kicked from Adsense,

then this is probably the answer… a small tool – created in germany – used for clicking on Adsense ads… via proxies, or not.

What’s notable is the fact that ebay does not close this auction, which is obviously an attempt to support click-fraud…

There's a great contra-Adsense discussion going on at WebProworld today...

Now if this is not a bogus message, then it is hot !

Google announced a new product to select publishers today, indicating a move away from their Adsense CPC network.

The new Google advertising program shall be called the Content Referral Network and will pay webmasters when a user completes a specific action – see definition of CPA campaigns

So this differs from Adsense where the only thing necessary for a webmaster to earn money was to have someone click … now they need to buy or fill out a signup form or whatever…

It is easy to fake a click. It is much more difficult to fake a sale.

What does this mean for web publishers?

• the average spam scraper webmaster will have a hard time to get people to by stuff with his non-credible sites

• those with professional visitors, traffic that might be in buying mood could be winners…

[via Monetize]:

Regardless of what Adimpact told on their site, Brian asked them again and the answer is pretty clear

just got the following

and when I clicked on it…