Hiring Morons and Adsense Spam.February 26, 2006If you are an adsense spammer you will take heart from the fact that some google adsense/adwords staff wouldn't recognize spam if you hit them on the head with it. Recently we found that the number of clicks reported in the google adwords reporting area for the content network and the number of entries in our log file for pagead2.googlesyndication.com did not tally. Further investigations revealed a large number of entries from a certain website. On visiting their site our ad was being shown. We do not wish to advertise on this site and promptly added it to the site filters for all our campaigns. The ads continued to be diaplayed on that site and we continue to get clicks from that site. So I decided to contact google and tell them about it. We recieved a canned response about how we should add the site to our filters!! Naturally I was annoyed and retorted that this has already been done. The same moron then replied that we should add the site to all our campaigns. That message can be excused since this particular googl employee is so obviously a moron. What cannot be excused is this statement:
If after doing so, you still receive clicks from xxx.xxx.com,
please reply to this email with the following details:
1) Name of the campaign which is receiving the clicks. 2) A screenshot of the weblogs where the clicks have been registered. I will be happy to investigate further. 1) I never mentioned anything about blogs in my own mails. 2) The support staffer is clueless about google's systm and he is blissfully unaware that it is not always possible for a advertiser to see his own ad. Google is either becoming arrogant, complacent or both. Either way this is not the end of the story. 
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