OT: About.com/Sprinks click-through fraud

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2001

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 37091
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texte = Just an FYI for other webmasters:After using goto.com for a few weeks we thought we'd try other PPC-typesearch engines. Within 48 hours of signing up with About.com/Sprinks we hadour account drained by some affiliate who framed our site inside his warezpages.We immediately closed our account but after 2 days About.com has beencompletely uncooperative and refuses to disable their redirect of traffic toour site. They claim their engineers have no way to disable theirredirection so we are still being bombarded with traffic.We are currently using Welcome to redirect all of this warez traffic overto the anti-piracy page of the SPA but haven't found anyway to actually stopthe traffic. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them.Just thought maybe I could save others from this experience.ThanksMarty-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

OT: About.com/Sprinks click-through fraud (Marty Schmid 2001)

Just an FYI for other webmasters:After using goto.com for a few weeks we thought we'd try other PPC-typesearch engines. Within 48 hours of signing up with About.com/Sprinks we hadour account drained by some affiliate who framed our site inside his warezpages.We immediately closed our account but after 2 days About.com has beencompletely uncooperative and refuses to disable their redirect of traffic toour site. They claim their engineers have no way to disable theirredirection so we are still being bombarded with traffic.We are currently using Welcome to redirect all of this warez traffic overto the anti-piracy page of the SPA but haven't found anyway to actually stopthe traffic. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them.Just thought maybe I could save others from this experience.ThanksMarty-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Marty Schmid

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