Google filters out the fraudsters (I hope!)
Those of you who've followed my recent complaints about the click fraud that someone's been doing via my sites (see Get mad at click fraud) will be happy to know that Google has resolved the issue for me, at least for now. Here's part of the letter they sent me:
We have made modifications to our filtering system and you should soon see
a change in the activity on your account. Please be assured that we are
monitoring your account and are working to keep the invalid activity from
continuing on your site.
This is good news for me — as an AdSense promoter, I was very annoyed by the click fraud. Now my earnings should go back to normal. As you can see, it pays to be diligent and to report any suspected fraud you see. Google wants to stop click fraud, after all — it's a threat to their business model (their CFO even said this a while back).
I'll be responding to a reader's comment on what I think about pay-per-action from a technical standpoint shortly. This click fraud's certainly given me lots to think about. I'm not the only one: another reader sent me a link to a recent article in The Patriot Ledger about a click fraud startup (well, technically, an anti-click fraud startup).
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