OT: About.com/Sprinks click-through fraud

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2001


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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-type search engines. Within 48 hours of signing up with About.com/Sprinks we had our account drained by some affiliate who framed our site inside his warez pages.We immediately closed our account but after 2 days About.com has been completely uncooperative and refuses to disable their redirect of traffic to our site. They claim their engineers have no way to disable their redirection so we are still being bombarded with traffic.We are currently using Welcome to redirect all of this warez traffic over to the anti-piracy page of the SPA but haven't found anyway to actually stop the traffic. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them.Just thought maybe I could save others from this experience. Thanks Marty ------------------------------------------------------------- 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:

    
  1. 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-type search engines. Within 48 hours of signing up with About.com/Sprinks we had our account drained by some affiliate who framed our site inside his warez pages.We immediately closed our account but after 2 days About.com has been completely uncooperative and refuses to disable their redirect of traffic to our site. They claim their engineers have no way to disable their redirection so we are still being bombarded with traffic.We are currently using Welcome to redirect all of this warez traffic over to the anti-piracy page of the SPA but haven't found anyway to actually stop the traffic. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them.Just thought maybe I could save others from this experience. Thanks Marty ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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