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Where to report adsense cheaters?

Where to report adsense cheaters?

         

SuddenlySara

3:06 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)



Ok, I have never reported spammers or cheaters to engines but would like to know where I can report a adsense cheater that is affecting adwords for advertisers as well.

The scoop,

Their MFA site is set up like a major search engine then has a Dmoz style directory set up below the "Big search engine looking setup".
The bottom of the page where the directory setup has no links on the
major categories but does link to the sub categories to sites that
do have links to them.

When you use their search engine you get Adsense
ads followed by listings but no link to the sites? The only links out are Adsense.

They are using Adwords for targeted keyword pages that have the Adsense ads and the phony search results scraped with no links out
on anything but Adsense?

Marcia

3:12 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Sara, when I've had issues on targeting and such I've clicked on the Google link near the ads and filled in the form, but I understand the usual email addy for contact is adsense-support/at/google.com

If it's not them for your example, they'll just forward it on.

jomaxx

3:16 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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There's a special email address you can use for AdSense policy violations.

[google.com ]

You can also send feedback by clicking on the "Ads by Google" link, but in my very limited experience this doesn't seem to work as well. I suspect this type of feedback goes to the AdWords team, and may need to be forwarded to another department before anything can happen. That's just a hunch.

KenB

3:21 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Does Google AdSense really do anything about these types of reports? My tracking proceedures for references to phrases on my pages turn up the MFA faux directories and faux blogs every day. I often wonder if the AdSense folks really want us to be reporting this stuff or not. I mean if they really want these reports, I could give them at least a dozen a week simply by the method I describe above.

If they don't really do anything about these reports, I don't want to waste my time. I also don't want them getting annoyed at me for making constant reports.

SuddenlySara

3:26 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)



Thank you guys for the info I'll explore them now as it's really affecting a couple of my sectors. With all of Goog's other changes across the board I'm just not having any fun this summer! Too much time working online than I have ever needed to do ;)

jomaxx

3:27 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Does Google AdSense really do anything about these types of reports? ...

Why wouldn't they? We know they they do enforce the policies and probably kick sites out of the program every day.

Having said that, the rule about having sufficient content on the page may be the least-enforced of their policies.

SuddenlySara

3:31 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)



Understand that KenB but there are really saturating keywords in Adwords so I want to try and report...maybe adwords first as they are using that big time too. Looks like a big money making site to Goooo so it will probably be put on their back-burner.