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More Adsense Fraud

As I have written before,

The promise of interactive ads, delivered by Adsense, is:

"AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content--ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful."

Your readers will actually find them useful - that is the pitch that keeps the Google money machine running.

I believe that this representation is a fraud for consumer/business advisory sites.

My readers do not find ads that running for fraudulent business opportunities "useful". Nor will they ever find these type of ads useful.

Consider the "relevant ad" that I found for this business opportunity: something called
Unified Wealth Solutions - sorry boys, no link love.

From their website FAQ:

"Unified Wealth Solutions (UWS) is a Marketing Resource Center that includes pre-formatted websites for advertising, marketing education, lead management tools, and more. UWS was founded by 5 Home Business Entrepreneurs who have each had incredible financial results in their personal enterprises.

Experts on lead generation, team management and business building strategies, these 5 recognized Leaders and Trainers collaborated to form UWS with the intention of providing people with the exact marketing tools they have used to build their personal businesses."

No five guys, domain registered by proxy, and illegal earnings claims according to the proposed FTC Business Opportunity Rule.

Jeez, Google can you tweak your algorithm with a "not" by looking at by blocked list?

Or maybe you want everyone here to whack the ad?

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Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).