Blogoscoped has put up a nice picture to
show the differences between before and after.

Now I this this is one of the most major change rolled by google for it’s prodcts in the last years…
Apparently this will corrupt a lot of adsense scraper spam business models.

On the other hand this will def. increase the value of a click as it should avoid those “accidential” clicks
from ad pages with 3 huge ad blocks, and in turn increase the overall value of the Google Adwords program for Google.

WOW… I thougth that must contain interesting news….

The essensence of the post:

• steal the publisher-ID and put it on crap sites
• click on the “competitor” ads

hmmm … not really astonishing news – altough that post is well written, I’m surprised how many people find these trivial infos worthwile a digg.

The first problem, stolen Publisher-ID on crap sites, happened to me already more than a year ago when spam scraper bots crawled the sites that I had Adsense on. Soon I received a mail about an adsense ban about “invalid clicks” … and that was it.

I went thru the appeal process I think 2 or 3 times but obviously that doesn’t help in this case. There is no proof availalbe that the spam scraper bots are really owned by some hackers in China, Korea or other states without western-law standards…

The problem is, that anyone who mails to that list name, send a mail to hundreds or thousands of affiliates of that program!

So what I received today is really the top adsense spam I ever saw…

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A mail coming from some really crappy and shitty looking T-Shirt site, asking me to

click GOOGLE ADSENSE below to sign up

Not only is that website really shitty, and the pitch to click on adsense to create a signup really stupid – the affiliate network is abused for all that.

I really don’t understand why legit webmasters creating good content are being kicked from Adsense for “invalid clicks” obviously on their own site, when click spam like this or big scraper site networks that people brag about openly get away with it.

Heck probably even this click spam being sent thru a wrong configured affiliate mailing list gets away with it…

Hello dear Adsense-Click-Fraud team – did you notice?

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

If you read up the forums some people complained about it already, but it seems ebay does not care.

The auction is in a pretty german english – but the message is frigthening

You simply can enter an Internet address to the appropriate field, to this you enter the number of desired clicks and time interval between the clicks. The X-TREM Blaster takes care of the clicks for you or to the start.

So you could really point it to only one site and cause a nice traffic spike there. That then increased the CTR and causes all alarm bells go off at Google. And if you are unimportant enough I suspect you simply get a “you are banned for invalid clicks” mail from Google, because it’s obvious that the surge of clicks came from those proxies the tool uses….

Another sad story to be added to the “Google Bowling”-repertoire … and 38 people already bought that tool!

[via Google Adsense Buster]:

I’ve just closed my account as being a Publisher and I am waiting on my last months check. We were doing around $10,000.00 a month with the AdSense type of sites and decided to get out because I felt the business model was really bad.

[via AdSense Bad For Your Business]:

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]:

What I am missing currently is ANY link to a google website with this information… be warned… might turn out this is a fake message in a few days…

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Publishers are not permitted to alter the behaviour of Google ads. This includes implementing the AdSense ad code in a floating windows. We therefore ask that you do not use www.adimpact.com to place your Google ads in floating windows. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.

I would assume we see an Adsense TOS and publisher guideline update within some days…

questions?

A revolutionary new adsense delivery system that claims to improve click through rates as much as 300%.

and when I clicked on Brian’s post about increasing Adsense CTR I found out that he actually refers to Adimpacts yellow stickers…

Brian, for your teaser I expected everything, but not the yellow stickies from ad impact.

How do you believe those would improve the CTR fro Adsense? these things actually distract from the ads, don’t they?

(PS: I wanted to comment this on your blog, but after finished the comment form, it asked me to login with a user… and I didn’t find the register button, so let’s discuss it here

ok ok – I should have read this twice.. they show a nice sample on their webpage…

they put the adsense banner on the DHTML-floater…

wow… Adsense will love this.

AdSense Integration is a revolutionary way of displaying the Google AdSense product. Simply add your AdSense publisher ID to our Adimpact Builder, and the ad will be displayed inside our floating creative. Our product can increase your AdSense revenues by reducing banner blindness. This floats on the page!