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Mikey, depends on the level of automating the entire project. I don't mind this costing me time which is not covered for in $ simply 'cause keeping my list free of cheaters will eventually work out better for my site.
Right now I have a pretty good system with 1.5 million police officers checking my site. Biggest problem I see is not the one time cheaters, it's the people that sign up for new sponsors, a new server, a new domain name and cheat over and over again. Maybe it's a few people doing it, and usually I recognize the layout, but those are the rotten apples I'm trying to hunt down.
A piece of software to use for submissions could work. At least people won't be able to fake IP-addresses and stuff, so it will filter out a whole lot of small time cheaters, which is the majority anyway.
I keep being amazed about people that change their page to offshoreclicks for 5 minutes before the bot throws 'em off. offshoreclicks will close the account once they get a report so they don't get paid. And there are people that month after month renew their paid links on my site. So someone that can't make money from a listing the honest way is doing something seriously wrong...
That could be a different approach to the same problem BTW. If sponsors would make it illegal to cheat on TGP's (and they do get a lot of traffic through 'em, so I'm sure they'll be willing to work with some people here) and donate the money to charity the reason people want to cheat (earn money) is no longer there. That might be a very easy resolution to this problem...
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