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Still thinking to cheat AdSense? Stop that. It will never bring you anywhere. You might pull it off with smaller ads network, but definitely not with Google. Here are some detection methods they might use. At the very least, they have the resources to do so.
IP Address
If the AdSense click is originated from the same […]

JanSense wrote about AdImpact’s implementation of AdSense ads. It places an AdSense ad unit in a floating yellow image that looks very much like a Post-It note. As the user scrolls, the ad floats down the screen, in the same ad position. AdImpact claims this implementation increase conversion (click-rate) by 300%.
Personally, I never likes […]

Guillaume wrote about ADS-click, the latest in the game of Pay-Per-Click advertising.
ADS-click offers automated contextually targeted advertising similar to the ones from Google (AdWords and AdSense) or Yahoo ( Yahoo Search Marketing / Overture and Yahoo Publisher Network). But unlike AdSense or YPN, this do-it-yourself solution let you to keep the most/ all of the […]

Before the dust even settled down on Google Video Ads, TechShout reports to have spotted new AdSense ads format.
In the latest AdSense ad format three regular text ads are placed on the top and right below them running are the adlink ad units. These new ad formats were seen in Medium Rectangle (300 x 250) […]

Last week, Seth Jayson writes about how Google is killing the Internet. The Motley Fool article has sparked up the discussion and catch attention of many in the Net.
TechDirt writes about it, Scott Karp says that Google is killing Internet’s economics of content, Dave Winer thinks it is changing the world in a right […]

Panda Software says the central server sending instructions to computers infected with the Clickbot.A virus has been taken offline. This is a result of collaboration between Panda Software and RSA Security.
The clickbot network, first detected by Panda Software last month, was designed to swindle Pay-Per-Click advertisements like AdSense and YPN. Panda didn’t name any advertisement […]

Be careful if you are running Chitika ads together with AdSense. You might get your AdSense account closed. JenStar spotted Chitika showing adult images in their ad units. This will violate AdSense Policies, which disallow pornography, adult, or mature contents.
The chosen keywords in the script is the benign sounding “magazine subscriptions”. Nothing terribly exciting there. […]

The Wall Street Journal ran an article today on pay-per-click fraud. The article estimates click-fraud to account for 5% of all the clicks. Many experts will disagree on the figure tough. Some, like Mark Cuban (owner of NBA Dallas Maverick) thinks “click fraud FAR exceeds what is being published by search companies.”
For the record, few […]

Mike over at Techdirt makes some good points at why the liberal Washington Post and conservative Washington Times editorial pages agreed on Net Neutraility and still got it wrong.
Background
The It’s Our Net Coalition is a broad coalition of consumers, grassroots groups and businesses working together to preserve the Internet and Net Neutrality.
Read here on how […]