Google's adsense is being ruined by clickbombing scammers:
 

this is just one guy who got caught.

in case yuo tards didn't know- the reason google's IPO was pulled was because the adsense program is falling apart under massive fraud. from both website owners running bots to click adwords on their own sites via proxies, and by SEO tards doing the same thing to fuck over people competing for a hot keyword by making their conversion rates too low to be profitable.

it's no secret. google's entire source of revenue was the fucking adsense garbage and it just blew up in their faces.


http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5176670.html?tag=st_pop

Fuck I need to find a new source of income, this clickbot will only work for so much longer

:(

Adsense makes up a small percentage of Google's income. Licensing their SE results to other portals and adwords makes up a majority.

WG

I used to promote a lot of pharma with adwords... Had to stop because of assholes hitbotting my links and costing me tons of money every day :(

Adsense/Adwords = google is #1 source of income.

right..... i wonder how long it will take for the soft to show up on kazaa.

can't google detect hitbots? i thought some cj scripts could do that.

A "small percentage," yeah, right.

send them the link ;)


As a per-click program operator in the past i know its virtually IMPOSSIBLE to build a scam free, fraud proof click engine.

There are a lot ofs routines and tricks you can build in to detect
fraud and it weeds out 98% of the scammers.

Eventually the only way to know if a user is sending real clicks or scamming your program is by checking the conversion ratio/sales.

And with Adsense or any other 3rd party per-click program its
impossible to view actual conversion/sales.

So google is pretty much fucked with adsense.

Adwords along with licensing makes up the bulk, not adsense. Adsense was just release a few months ago whereas adwords has been around for over a year now.

Link: http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...30114_2858.htm

This was published shortly after adwords was released.
WG

OMG that guy is so stupid

I agree 100%.

Plus, other than the fact that it costs advertisers a lot of money and will make them turn away from using AdWords in the long run, this type of scam does little to hurt Google. I am sure they have some very good mechanisms in place to catch cheaters.

As long as Google reigns king, advertisers don't have a whole lot of options.

Yup, speaking only ad buys (not free traffic), Google still has one of the strongest presences in the industry.

WG

Thats not googles only stream of income, I would guess it does not even make up for 20% of their revenue.

i defecate on spammers and scammers from a very great height

Well said, to think those hitbots could be used to increase TGP trades instead :1orglaugh

has anyone tried software like this? :

http://www.keywordmax.com/click_auditor.html

Looks interesting, just not fond of their business model. Seems a bit too greedy to my taste.

yeah.. they're selling a rebadged overture tool for $25.. well with mispellings and a few other things, but the free trial is just overture's tool.. that kinda put me off them.

but it does look interesting.. I wouldn't mind talking to someone who uses one of their products.

Bah, all they have to do is hire 12clicks. He sniffs out cheaters where no one else can. :glugglug

true.. but who can afford him?

true twice,.......................shieeeeeeeeeeet.:wink wink: