Why You Shouldn’t Cheat AdSense
Why You Shouldn’t Cheat AdSense
- by Fernando Hal
If you applied for AdSense account with intention to cheat and earn fast bucks, I hope by now you have understood that you shouldn’t.
Why? You say. Google is so rich, losing some pennies won’t hurt.
Well. Probably. But when I say you shouldn’t, trust me. You really shouldn’t. These are just some reasons:
1. You can’t cheat Google
Every once in while, someone will comes out with ingenious idea of how to get more money from AdSense in less than honorable ways. He will announce to the whole world, posting in every forum and tell people how smart he is. His idea is always untraceable by Google, it is always original, and it always gives easy money.
What he doesn’t know is, few months after that, he will get caught by Google, always. And his AdSense account will be disabled. Always. And he is banned from ever applying for AdSense account again. Always.
Google is a giant, with 2005 revenue of almost US$ 10 billions, and profits of more than US$ 1 billion. A large chunk of this comes from Adwords / AdSense advertisements.
More click fraud means less trust, less advertisers and less money, to the extent that if unsolved it will bring collapse to pay-per-click advertisement business. Now. Do you think Google will let you jeopardize their billion dollar business model?
They have money and ability to bring together many of the the smartest and brightest engineers and scientists on earth, has been doing that and will continue to do so. How smart do you think you are that you can outsmart collaborative effort of the brightest brains?
You might be able to pull through for two or three months, but eventually the fraud detection algorithm will catch up and you are caught. And you get banned from Google AdSense, among other things.
2. Cheating = stealing
No matter how you want to justify, face it, cheating is stealing. You are not only stealing from Google, but also from Adwords publishers. Majority of these are are not big companies, but small webmasters depending on Internet to make a living.
Moreover, even if your morality (or lack thereof) permits stealing from your own fellow, bear in mind that stealing is illegal. Regardless of whether it is done offline or online, a crime is a crime. You might get jailed for that.
In fact, Google has started to bring AdSense fraudsters to court a few months ago. Some were jailed, and some others were fined heavily.
3. It is just too easy to earn more, legally
Let’s say you managed to cheat AdSense undetected. You don’t use clickbot or proxy or click-ring or paid clickers. You managed to somehow get the clicks from distributed IP. You don’t use pop-ups, spyware, adware. You are careful that your CTR does not exceed 10%. Still, your earning is limited. There is a cap you can’t cross, else you will invite unwanted attention to your account.
With so much effort to cover your traces, actually you will get better result if you concentrate your effort to improve the website.
Write more contents, submit articles, improve on your search engine optimisation, improve adsense placement, and you can get the same earning or even more. Sure it will take some time, but this is legitimate.
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thats right … never cheat. dont cut your golden duck in hurry.
I won’t deny I’ve been a little tempted to cheat once in a while, but the risks aren’t worth it. I didn’t make a site just to make money anyway.
you’re right ! great article , thx
Hi john, Spirit & Noobeek,
Glad that you like the article.
@Spirit – To be frank, it has crossed my mind too to cheat Google. After i realised the many reason why I shouldn’t, this blog was born.
Google adsense doesn’t ban you because they know you cheat, they ban you because you are danger to there advertisers, it could be a crazy idiot is everytime clicking all your ads, result you get banned, and don’t believe they will unban you.
That makes sense, however I think Google has better prevention mechanism. If that is what happen, Google will soon run out of publishers because of some people sabotaging others site.
In my Adsense report, from time to time I will see sudden burst of clicks, for example from normal CTR of 2% jump to 20%. Believe it or not, there is no increase in the total earning. Somehow Google filter out those fraudulent clicks and thus no earning is credited.
Ive been tempted myself to click but who wants to just cheat and earn when you can have a popular site that earns you money all year round. Put the time and effort in and the gain will far exceed your expectations, thats why im trying to build this site http://www.bigweblinkexchange.com aswell if I can get people to join, it will help all involved with free links Ive even taken the buy credits feature off so people earn impressions by referring or posting links and not wasting money.
That, honestly, is another waste of time and effort
This is a great article. everything u say is totally true..
I was wondering though, can someone make real good earnings from adsense. I hear now and then about people earning 100$ per day. Is that even possible?
if u like post your daily earning and the number of site you own to compare.
mine’s 1,5-2$/day, i run 3 sites.
tnx
Hi,
I wrote the article about 3 years ago when I was just started in Adsense. My earning on those days ways like your, just few dollars a day. Three years on, now I earn over $100 almost every day, sometimes even more than $200 in a day. That, however is an exceptional rather than normal day. I have 4 sites on Adsense, about 95% of the earnings are from 3 sites, cheatad.com is the least.