International Law

Adsense and Affliate Scams

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Jeremey Shoemaker puts his finger on one of the problems with having a consumer site running Google Adsense.

Shoemoney's site is a commercial site, with some useful tips on affliate marketing - the role of selling other people's stuff by internet promotion.

Jeremy writes:

"I was attacked a lot for promoting such offers but at the same time praised by others for actually giving step by step instructions on who to make money with affiliate marketing. While ringtones are nothing close to our companys overall percentage of income I still today do 20-50 leads a day organically through our old mobile properties. I run them all through Affiliate.com's ringtones.net program. (which is still paying out and amazing $20 per lead btw..)"

Someone twitters and  complained to Shoemoney about him and wonder "hope you aren't pushing grant ads. Those companies that sell that garbage are pure evil."

Shoemoney pointed out the person's own website was running these type of ads, while a commentator clarified that " The Google Adsense ads are CONTEXTUALLY GENERATED from Google, obviously because the article is ABOUT government grants.

He has not SPECIFICALLY placed them there.

That Cash Crate thing is NOT a scandalous survey program, you can go through it and you will see. And I know someone who's made quite a lot of money from it."

I have simply given up trying to control what Google places on this website.  Many of the ads are for dubious schemes - but, I would never find out about them unless they appeared here.

I weigh that against the apparent authority that they might have by being placed on bizop.ca.  So far, the information that they give out as a signal to their dubiousness outweighs the possible influence they might enjoy by being here.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).