mole said:
In truth, I continue to be shocked, and fascinated, at the ingenious ways PPC models can be exploited. If an advertiser pays $50 per click without due accountability made for conversion, imagine how many immigrant workers a person can employ at sweat shops in the States (IP matching) willing to click and hold for 30secs at a landing page at a labor cost of $1 per $1,000 qualified human clicks.
I do see a solution to this state of affairs, but was wondering if domainers here really understand the serverity of the issue today and enormity of the challenge we all face when it comes to responsible traffic generation and management.
More importantly, what can we do to protect the valued notion of 'traffic' and 'unique visitors'?
This industry does not like "whistle blowers", but does this industry see the looming backlash and have a modus operandi of "steal all the gold before the giant wakes up"?
>> In truth, I continue to be shocked, and fascinated, at the ingenious ways PPC models can be exploited.
You may call them ingenious but most that "actually" pay for clicks call them criminal.
>> If an advertiser pays $50 per click without due accountability made for conversion, imagine how many immigrant workers a person can employ at sweat shops in the States (IP matching) willing to click and hold for 30secs at a landing page at a labor cost of $1 per $1,000 qualified human clicks.
Yes and you could probably hire a few homeless people to rob banks if you paid them enough.
>> I do see a solution to this state of affairs, but was wondering if domainers here really understand the serverity of the issue today and enormity of the challenge we all face when it comes to responsible traffic generation and management.
It is very severe and I can't wait until the major players put together a white list. Overture is already an invite only affiliate program and they are extremely picky with whom they allow publish their ads. Google will eventually do the same as they see CPC rates drop significantly. Some bad apples will ruin this opportunity for thousands of good people.
>> More importantly, what can we do to protect the valued notion of 'traffic' and 'unique visitors'?
Stop posting these types of threads as there are a ton of low-life scammers that will read this thread and form ideas.
>> This industry does not like "whistle blowers", but does this industry see the looming backlash and have a modus operandi of "steal all the gold before the giant wakes up"?[/QUOTE]
I would recommend all webmasters report anything they think is remotely fraudulent to Google. If someone approaches you with an idea that is fraudulent then report the person. And most of all, lets stop giving these criminals ideas. It is almost as asinine as the media publishing easy ways terrorist can enter nuclear plants or get into a plane. We're in a way feeding the fire by talking about it.
