Comments on: Google Shutters MFA Accounts

By: PlagiarismToday » The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks

PlagiarismToday » The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:15 +0000

[...] their policy in this area is one of the reasons that Adsense remains so popular with spammers, even after several crackdowns. Grade: [...]

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:37:59 +0000

I don’t think I’ll ever find out if my efforts get anywhere. But I do think Google will give this problem more attention if a lot of people do what I’m doing.

I pretty much explain it all in my first comment.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:44:50 +0000

Maria,

You’ll have to let me know if this works or not. I know, historically, my contacts with Adsense that have not involved a DMCA notice have fallen on deaf ears, I hope that you have better luck!

If it does work, you’ll have to tell me what exactly you did so I can help pass the information along!

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:37:59 +0000

I don't think I'll ever find out if my efforts get anywhere. But I do think Google will give this problem more attention if a lot of people do what I'm doing.I pretty much explain it all in my first comment.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:44:50 +0000

Maria,You'll have to let me know if this works or not. I know, historically, my contacts with Adsense that have not involved a DMCA notice have fallen on deaf ears, I hope that you have better luck!If it does work, you'll have to tell me what exactly you did so I can help pass the information along!

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:31:35 +0000

Thanks for yet another informative article.

I have recently begun e-mailing Google with lists of URLs that contain scraped content. My e-mails to adsense-abuse-at-google.com with the subject line “AdSense Policy Violation” all have the same format:

“The following links are to sites that are using scraped content to generate AdSense revenue or improve Google rankings, a clear violation of Google’s terms of services:

[list of URLs goes here]

Help stop feed scraping! PLEASE cancel the AdSense accounts for these violators and others like them.”

I send these out a few times a week. In many cases, I get the URLs from pingbacks to my sites. Other times I stumble upon them while surfing the Web. In each case, it’s pretty obvious that the content on the linked page is scraped.

I don’t know if these e-mail messages have been helping matters, but I know they can’t hurt. I also know that if everyone who is bothered by feed scraping took a moment or two to do this, Google would have to pay attention and do something about it.

Thanks again for your article. Keep up the good work.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:31:35 +0000

Thanks for yet another informative article.

I have recently begun e-mailing Google with lists of URLs that contain scraped content. My e-mails to adsense-abuse-at-google.com with the subject line "AdSense Policy Violation" all have the same format:

"The following links are to sites that are using scraped content to generate AdSense revenue or improve Google rankings, a clear violation of Google's terms of services:

[list of URLs goes here]

Help stop feed scraping! PLEASE cancel the AdSense accounts for these violators and others like them."

I send these out a few times a week. In many cases, I get the URLs from pingbacks to my sites. Other times I stumble upon them while surfing the Web. In each case, it's pretty obvious that the content on the linked page is scraped.

I don't know if these e-mail messages have been helping matters, but I know they can't hurt. I also know that if everyone who is bothered by feed scraping took a moment or two to do this, Google would have to pay attention and do something about it.

Thanks again for your article. Keep up the good work.