Sometimes having a dynamic site can be handy
Although in the book I show Claude, Stef and Anita how to build a static Web site, there are definitely advantages to having a dynamic Web site — except of course that the “no programming required” rule no longer applies. If you're going to build a dynamic site — a site where the pages include code that is run on the server before the page is sent down to the browser — then you'll be doing some programming. So it's not for beginners.
But you can do some interesting things. Right now, for example, MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com appears to be the target of a zombie attack: about every 20 seconds, a random computer somewhere is accessing the site's home page. Some of them appear to be clicking ads, so I think this is an attempt to perform click fraud. The big clue is that they have no “referer” (that's how it's spelled, unfortunately) header, which most normal accesses to the site would have. While I can't unfortunately do anything about the traffic coming to the site, I've used the fact that it's a dynamic site to have the home page check for the lack of a “referer” header and remove the AdSense ads from the page in that case. We'll see if that helps or not. My bandwidth bill is going to be high this month, I can just see it now… sigh…
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