Another in a series of moves to get rid of the “made for Adsense” site industry, Google is eliminating accounts of people who are using [tag-tec]arbitrage[/tag-tec] (buying clicks from Adwords and other traffic networks to send traffic to higher paying ads on sites with no meaningful content and a lot of ads).
Junk sites are breathing their last breaths as site builders try to hang on to any profits they can for as long as they can, while Google continues to shut doors.
Read more about this issue from Jennifer Slegg.
If you are building any kind of scraper, made for Adsense sites and hoping you have a real business on your hands, think again. Your “business” is a scam and the people who sold it to you have sold you something you’d probably never do in the real world if there were a real world equivalent.
This is because people feel more anonymous online. Which is so incredibly naive it is pathetic. Wait until someone wants to reach out and touch you and you will find out just how exposed and naked you are on the web behind your proxies.
Google sees all. You aren’t the only one reading your gmail. You cannot fool one of the largest companies in the world with some of the smartest engineers and programmers on the planet with a piece of $27 software and a pat on the butt from the jerk who sold it to you. Let’s get real!
When the reality sinks in, people are going to be scrambling again, as they have after every slap, smack down, and other adjustments Google has made to quell the theft of advertising dollars by scraper site builders. I personally know some serious black hat guys who have all but given up their constant rage against the machine and gone white hat (maybe a little “off” white).
They are some of the highest earning black hat people I have ever heard of and they are giving it up. This comes from the top down and you should seriously pay attention when the originators this stuff start to bail.
The answer? People need to grow up or go back to their day jobs. There are no free rides anymore in the Adsense world.