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Reporting AdSense Spam Sites

October 13th, 2009 | Spam, Scams

Google Update Jagger – sounds like a Japanese superhero team – has me checking some of my sites’ inbound links via Google.

So many are just AdSense spam sites that have scraped my pages to create keyword dense but worthless pages to snag AdSense revenues.

Today Matt Cutts explained how to report AdSense spammers:

You see a low-quality site that is running AdSense
If you run across a site that you consider spammy and it has AdSense on it, click on the “Ads by Goooooogle” link and click “Send Google your thoughts on the ads you just saw”. Enter the words spamreport and jagger1 in the comments field.

I’ve often feared the websites that use parts of my sites’ content will eventually have the search engines devalue them because they see me – rather that the scraper sites – as perpetrator of duplicate content. Not something I want, having invested time and money. Even when I use freely available articles I take time to reformat them.

So this morning I spent about an hour playing AdSense cop. I checking sites “linking” to one of mine. If all I saw was a scraper site I reported it. (Talk about tons of invisible text.)

I guess for the foreseeable future I’ll continue to scan my inbound links for links to AdSense spam pages and report them to Google.

I wonder how many millions of websites are violating the AdSense TOS this way?

Originally posted 2005-10-19 12:46:06. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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2 comments ↓

#1 Randy Charles Morin on 10.19.05 at 4:43 pm

I use to do something similar to this and Google was cancelling the splogger’s Adsense accounts. Then, in late September, I noticed that Google was no longer cancelling splogger’s Adsense accounts.

#2 Richard on 10.19.05 at 6:07 pm

I’ve reported junk AdSense sites in the past without satisfactory resolution. Perhaps it will be different now.

I’ll be checking on unwanted links in Google and from my referral logs to see if they vanish in a month or so.

For certain persistent offenders if Google doesn’t cancel their AdSense accounts I’ll probably file a new report every month hoping the bogus search engines and site scrapers will eventually get what they deserve.

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