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dthomsen8
02-04-2006, 07:28 AM
One of the students in my Dreamweavers class says he is being paid to surf the net. I have seen SPAM and ads for this.

Does anyone have any experience with this? It sounds too good to be true, and therefore I am wary of the whole idea, but maybe there is something to it. Perhaps my wife might be interested.

David
Steve Rindsberg
02-04-2006, 10:38 AM
If it sounds too good to be true ...

I wonder if the idea is for the person to go to specific sites and click on as many ads as possible? If I'm hosting google ads on my site, it's in my interest to have as many people click them as possible, since that's how I get paid.
ElyseC
02-04-2006, 10:48 AM
If it sounds too good to be true ...

I wonder if the idea is for the person to go to specific sites and click on as many ads as possible? If I'm hosting google ads on my site, it's in my interest to have as many people click them as possible, since that's how I get paid.But every click costs the advertiser. Found that out from a friend who has her site on Google ads and I was using that to get to her occasionally, instead of clicking a bookmark I already have for her. She told me she gets charged whether or not someone buys from the click-through, so please don't rack up her charges. I had no idea! I switched back to my bookmark 100% of the time!
annc
02-04-2006, 11:07 AM
But every click costs the advertiser. Of course. But if you're showing the ads on your site, you get paid for the click-throughs.

Google pockets the difference.
ElyseC
02-04-2006, 11:46 AM
Of course. But if you're showing the ads on your site, you get paid for the click-throughs.

Google pockets the difference.I guess my thought is that clicking ads just to get payment for the Google ad hosting hurts the retailer paying for the ads and useless click-throughs. If I signed up my business or product to appear in Google ads, I certainly wouldn't like losing money to useless click-throughs.
annc
02-04-2006, 01:22 PM
I guess my thought is that clicking ads just to get payment for the Google ad hosting hurts the retailer paying for the ads and useless click-throughs.
Of course it does. But the clicker-through doesn't necessarily care about that.
Kelvyn
02-04-2006, 01:44 PM
But the clicker-through doesn't necessarily care about that.

Google and Overture do, though. Click-fraud is theft, and they are trying very hard to stamp it out.

Banner ads are a similar target, where rarely does the site owner hosting the ads take any precautions like monitoring IPs, click patterns etc, and the advertiser most likely does not, either.
PeterArnel
02-04-2006, 02:14 PM
I have friend who has just got over $6000 for surfing - i didnt belive she would
Peter
ElyseC
02-05-2006, 03:49 PM
Of course it does. But the clicker-through doesn't necessarily care about that.Of course, but they should, and as Kelvyn says, Google certainly does.
Steve Rindsberg
02-05-2006, 06:09 PM
Of course you wouldn't.

But the person making money off the scam doesn't care.
ElyseC
02-06-2006, 06:51 AM
But the person making money off the scam doesn't care.Unfortunately, yes.
dthomsen8
02-07-2006, 04:17 AM
I have friend who has just got over $6000 for surfing - i didnt belive she would
Peter

Some people say that at least some of these sites don't pay, or don't pay on time. In any case, I doubt that I want to get involved, or have my wife learn about it. Somewhere, someone is paying for something they are not getting.