Google gets tough on fake Adwords sites

Posted by Marshall on May 21, 2007 | Link It

It's about time Google stopped sponsoring sites that are "clearly" garbage whose only purpose in life is make people click (usually by mistake) on AdWords and AdSense Ads.

According to Google Operating System - Google Cracks Down on Made for AdSense Sites

"…These users usually bought cheap keywords from AdWords and sent the visitors to their sites that also displayed ads, but for more expensive keywords. The sites didn't contain almost anything valuable, most of the time they scraped content from other sites, but they made a lot of money by tricking users."

I've seen so many garbage, spam sites out there - that I just wonder why it took so long for Google to stop sponsoring these sites.  According to Ionut Alex Chitu :

"….JenSense reports that a lot of AdSense users who built sites with almost no original content, but full of AdSense ads, had their accounts removed.

"….AdSense account is an unsuitable business model and that accounts would be disabled as of June 1st, giving publishers about two weeks notice to prepare for the loss of the AdSense accounts… "

 I wonder how wide the filter is going to be?  Just how much will they decide is "fake"?  It's OK with me, in a way, as long as legit, good content, is not affected; that's not always easy to accomplish … but hay…. Google has to start somewhere.

 



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