Adsense bait and switch
I found an Adsense ad on my own site (not this one, but another). I found it interesting, so I copied the URL word for word and visited the site. You see, not only was the topic interesting, but I couldn’t see how that could be easily monetized.
Here’s the exact text of the ad:
Cyber-Bullying help
Cyber Bullying has become a major problem in America. Help is here!
www.joshuassite.com
Problem was that when I visited the site, there was this poorly written text, generally about cyber bullying. At the bottom, there was an e-mail address for contacing “us”, and a link for
“Visit us at:”
Guess what…
The link was an affiliate link to a porn site. It wasn’t even disguised.
But internet noobs would still click on it and get shocked.
This is bait and switch, and it’s probably just beginning!
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A little bit about the owner of the site.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
I also use wordpress blog templates on my blog, if you take a look here: http://www.seobuzzbox.com you see that I am using one, and guess what? It came with someones adsense enabled on it because I downloaded it from someone who was sharing it. It turned out that when I contacted him he was a webmaster and said “Of course my adsense is in there, its my template so just take it out if you want to use it”.
That example is not spam.
Great blog BTW!!
Admin Aaron