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Originally Posted by warlock5
Its only a scam if the TOS of the PPC program say search only. Most allow you to do this. Anyone who spends a lot of PPC knows this, thats why bids for terms that are $1+ on Adwords will be 1-2 cents tops on 7search, searchfeed, etc.
On the other hand, I'm guessing this guy doesn't have any rights to the images used.
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Surfers think they are clicking forward to galleries, not to anything else. They get seperated from the TGP environment and and pushed forward...
Then the real scam comes in: In many cases (I won't say for this particular site) they mix in toolbar surfers, scumware redirects, and SE traffic taken by spamming blog comments, installing codecs, and so on.
Many of the clicks don't actually go directly to a paying customer, but are first bounced through other PPC engines, which are selling "clicks" that really aren't clicks.
Once again: If you see ESTDOMAINS anywhere in the chain, you very likely got fucked.