Is this going to work? (adsense traffic)

by supereek

Posted: 13 years ago 12 replies

Hi,

Long ago a friend of mine used to own a small website with the do's and dont's when it comes to renting a new house. All kinds of tips about how to find the right real estate agent as also what to look for in a new house etc..

Here what he did:
He placed countless of fake ads of rental homes who didn't exist on variety of free advertisement websites. He got his website link into every ad. He started getting amazing traffic from this and all vistors were targeted. He placed adsense on his site with only text ads. All ads that were generated were from different real-estate agencies.

What happend:
He got up to 600€ in his first month from adsense, once he was in my house (back then i had no clue what adsense was) and he clicked on his own ad then said "see now i earn one more 1€ euro, easy heh?"
At the end of the month his account got suspended due click-fraud.

Soooo...
Will this be safe if i make the same type of website and promote it the same way? Will google ban me for no organic traffic at all? I can't afford to loose my account..

thanks in advance

#adsense #traffic #work

mrrightme 13 years ago

Do not risk.
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jankoch 13 years ago

That would definitely ban you from Google Adsense
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- options 13 years ago
  
  I think you would be ok. As long as you don't click your own ads. It is kind of organic traffic, just not from the search engines. Mind you, the sites you have your link on could be ranking in the SERPS.
  
  I would put original content on the site, as much as you can.
  
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JeanneLynn 13 years ago

I don't get it. He clicked on his own ad one time, at your house, and his adsense account was suspended? That would seem hard to believe. Or was his account suspended because of the shady operation he was engaging in?

And I agree with the others, I wouldn't risk my Adsense account doing something like that!
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Curtis2011

13 years ago

Originally Posted by supereek

Here what he did:
He placed countless of fake ads of rental homes who didn't exist on variety of free advertisement websites. He got his website link into every ad. He started getting amazing traffic from this and all vistors were targeted. He placed adsense on his site with only text ads. All ads that were generated were from different real-estate agencies.

Interesting backlinking method.

Unethical, but not much worse than what a lot of the common greyhat SEO tactics are nowadays.

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supereek 13 years ago

Well with the account suspension they said it was click fraud, he made a ticket on the customer service forums and someone told him its highly possible that this occured because he clucked his own ad.

I mean its not paid traffic or anything like that, i dont understand why would G ban him otherwise, he didnt even use a MFA theme on his page.
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- paulgl 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by supereek
  
  he clucked his own ad.
  
  There's your answer!
  
  Seriously, it was a bad idea to put fake ads that go directly
  to an adsense page. How about something real? A little
  thinking could have come up with one.
  
  When you send people to a page they think they are getting,
  you never know what you are getting. Traffic-wise and click-wise.
  Mad people do mad things.
  
  I have a hunch that if this was the guy's methods, then it's just
  one of a several shady things he's done. And any one of those things
  would lead to click fraud. But "click fraud" is a general term. It can
  mean anything related to unreal clicks.
  
  If one must do things like this, send the link to a non-adsense page
  that funnels traffic to adsense pages. That's how I do email
  marketing.
  
  A fool and his adsense are soon parted.
  
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tech84 13 years ago

I dont think he got banned for that single click he did at your house,

im thinking its more likely because he does this all the time, using other peoples internet/PCs then going to his site and click on the ads.

Adsense can err... sense that.

edit: he got banned from click fraud, so i guess the traffic source was not the culprit
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- paulgl 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by tech84
  
  edit: he got banned from click fraud, so i guess the traffic source was not the culprit
  
  Traffic IS a source of many types of "click fraud." Click fraud is not
  just you clicking on a link. It's you sending mindless people doing
  mindless clicks. Your traffic sources do matter. BIG time. Sending
  people who think they are getting apples when your page is on
  bananas, is fraudulent. Especially if it is a high traffic way. Many
  advertisers pay on a CPM basis. Pumping up those page views with
  idiotic traffic, is tantamount to click fraud.
  
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tech84 13 years ago

I dont think they tell people the specific violation but more of a vague "detected invalid activity" something letter. so when the owner of the site got banned he automatically assumed that it was due to click fraud since that's what he did.

i think its more of a general fraudulent activity, because "click fraud" is more specific for clicks regardless of source, but more on the "intention" of the click.

but i agree that it's because of his his traffic source (the fake ads), as it would fall under Arbitrage
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supereek 13 years ago

So it would be safe if i pull the traffic to lets say a page of the site without adsense and from there lead them to another page WITH adsense?? I mean ofcorse without a automatic redirect script !!
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timpears 13 years ago

I think the reason he got banned was he was clicking his own ads, that will get yo banned real quick. The traffic method he used would be a good one, , although some sites will consider it fraud for posting ads to properties you don't own. But if you want to post those ads continually to drive traffic, go for it, but don't ever click your own ads.
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