Saturday, June 04, 2005

Google Spam Sites

Worthless sites are cluttering up your search for real information on Google. The driving motive is the usual one - greed. These slime-ball site owners, steal content (this is called scraping) or they fake what the site is about to trick you into clicking on it, just so they can have Google text box advertising on their site.

 Here are 2 examples of these sites:




 Scraping Example One
 Scraping Example Two
 Scraping Example Three
 Scraping Example Four

 Scraping Example One
 Scraping Example Two
 Scraping Example Three

Why would they do this? Why would they waste your valuable search time? They do it so someone will click on the advertising boxes.

Why do they want this? They make money from Google and cost the advertiser money.

All too often they are clicking the boxes on their useless site themselves.

When they click to earn revenue from Google, this is Google Click Fraud.

The advertiser is being defrauded out of their advertising dollars. The visitor is being tricked into vesting the site.

This is so obviously corrupt, why isn’t Google overly motivated to stop this? It defrauds the public and the honest advertisers.

Because Google makes money every time the ad is clicked. The advertiser if carrying the load and they don’t even know it is happening.

Captain America’s tip for the day: When tracking deception and fraud – follow the money.

Discuss this Google Fraud Alert article on the forums!