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Originally Posted by brian101
go to a proxy site, and type in your website once it gets to your website keep refreshing. Wouldnt that work isnt that the same thing as paying to have people boost up your traffic?
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If by "people" you mean "a person," then it's the same thing, but you need to go back to math class. Now, if you want to push your hit counter up because it's tied to your ego it's not unethical, it's just pointless. If it's to charge people for a service you didn't provide, then it is unethical.
I've got a friend with a business and a web site set up to encourage sales. She really needs new customers, but won't consider adsense or ypn because of click fraud. Google's money comes from advertising, so it's in their interest to make it seem like less of a problem, and one they're dealing with aggressively.
If I were in their shoes, and had access to that fast search engine, I'd have a report set up to flag pages that mention proxies, cpc or ppc, adsense, clicks or visits, and a lot of other keywords. Especially if it's on a webmaster site or forum. Then I'd have a team of people reviewing everything that turns up. I don't know how ad services actually deal with this, but I wouldn't do it, and I definitely wouldn't talk about it on the net if I was going to.
Remember, your isp passes all the packets back and forth between you and the proxy server, so it's nowhere near as anonymous as most people think. Google wants to be a free wireless isp... |
