AuctionCut

Surely, asking to be banned from adsense

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0069502498

I agree. I wouldn't go near anything like that. I'm just starting out and wouldn't want to jeopodise my account for something like this.

(I said I would jeopodise my account )

Brian

I'd be interested to know if this is within the adsense terms and conditions. It's exactly the same as smaller search engines, which have the sponsored results containing their publisher code, except this is toolbar based.

So, any searches that are made will offer results with your publisher code. All you need to do is distribute the toolbar so people use it.

However, why would people use it - when most browsers have built it search boxes anyway.

An interesting concept though.

Put simply a recipoe to get banned, my account is to important to me to risk losing it for a quick return that is non sustainable..

thanks for your opinions, i'll leave it well alone.

how does this toolbar work? i don't understand

who is doing the clicking exactly?

It's pretty easy to figure out if you should be using tools like this. Simply ask yourself, "If I were an Adwords advertiser, would I want [insert name of tool here] being used to click on my ads."

If the answer is no, then you can assume that Google feels the same way about it and will ban those who it feels are trying to "game" the system.

Making money with Adsense isn't that hard if you play by the rules, the trick is to stop looking for shortcuts - they just make it harder for you to do well in the long run.


Gary

jumble wrote:how does this toolbar work? i don't understand

who is doing the clicking exactly?

It basically uses your code to pull related adsense links up when the user searches for a certain word/phrase and when they click the ad then your account get credited. Its an account killer so don't bother..

thanks for the response auctionman. i will stay well clear of it