F-Secure Tweaks Google Over Hosting Ads

By WebProNews Staff · July 24, 2007 · 3 Comments

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F-Secure Tweaks Google Over Hosting Ads

Advertising of bulk marketing products is not permitted if the stated or implied use of the following products is unsolicited spam: • Email lists that are not opt-in • Bulk email software • Bulk messaging
— from the Google AdWords terms of service

Google presents what appear to be straightforward rules on what they don’t want to see in their cash cow AdWords product. Security firm F-Secure found the reality a little different than what Google suggests.

Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure found ads for bulletproof hosting appearing in the One Box, a prime ad placement location atop a Google search results page.

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J. Cooke
July 24, 2007 at 3:13 pm

“…links leading to doorway pages that were just lists of affiliate links to other companies. Such pages usually run afoul of Google’s webmaster guidelines, and in doing so are supposed to be prohibited in AdWords.”

Gosh, I’d have never guessed that Google tries to prevent such advertisers. So many of the ads running down right side of Google pages are for such sites that I ignore ads placed there altogether. Get into one of them and you can continue clicking til your finger falls off before finding a single real website. Didn’t used to be that way.

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darwin
July 24, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Thats going to improve the internet and web browesing in all aspects.
-Darwin Rosario
something i want to bring to the table. and want to know peoples respond…

Ive been hearing aboout Google Pay-Per-Click Ads Free for internet marketers, an opportunnity to make millions??!!! i would like to see other peoples oppinion.. because this really sound worth it.

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  someone
  July 24, 2007 at 8:45 pm
  
  I think that is a really stupid product to buy because google doenst give free clicks except to adwords pro users. You can qualify simply and get credits based on how much you SPEND!
  
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