Sunday, May 21, 2006

65 Minutes to Game Google


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Originally uploaded by benbarren.
It's one of those commonly acknowledged problems, like a family secret, which is brewing below the surface, ready to appear at any time. Today's search engines now have so much spam in them I find them near unuseable. In 65 minutes anyone can game google. From Xedant :

Crazy AdSense Experiment:

Unethical But Legal $10,000/Month
1. Find an expensive and popular keyword (there are numerious free lists of keywords online and you can use Google AdWords Keyword Tool in order to estimate keyword popularity and price). It took us 1 minute.
2. Register a junk domain like "top4websites.com" or "insurancetop4.com". We haven't ordered any domain specifically for this purpose, but used one of our experimental domains (totally unrelated to the main theme of MFA web site).
3. Extract search results from Google or any other search engine. It took us 5 minutes.
4. Create HTML page with these search results. It took us 7 minutes.
5. Insert Google AdSense code in the way that search results aren't visible without scrolling. It took us 10 minutes.
6. Upload html file to your web site. It took us 2 minutes.
7. Create a new Google AdWords campaign for this keyword by copying any other MFA campaign. It took us 10 minutes.
8. Wait for 15 minutes until you will see first clicks from Google AdWords, wait for another 15 minutes until you will see new clicks on Google AdSense.