In Other News, Shoemoney Gets His Adsense Account Banned….
update - This is a case of Shoemoney getting massively misquoted in the press. Please see his response at http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/12/07/forbes-article/. I apologize for any defamation or damage to the branding this article may have had!
Shoemoney is going to get his account taken away. Here’s why.
If you have been paying attention to the Search blogs lately, you will have heard about the in which both Jeremy ‘Shoemoney’ Schoemaker and Michael ‘Graywolf’ Gray are both quoted. Now, I haven’t read the article itself yet, but I just came across this extract which :
Schoemaker insists he and others have in fact found a way to circumvent the crackdown. He says he uses techniques like “cloaking” to fool Google’s algorithm. Arbitrageurs know the search engine’s IP addresses, the fingerprints that reveal the source of any Web page visitor. So Schoemaker says he sets his web pages to automatically display legitimate content to the Google spider, while giving other users the ad-filled arbitrage page. Schoemaker says that makes him virtually immune to Google’s quality-regulation measures.
… Since then, he says he’s made more than $2 million by arbitraging search terms related to cell phone ringtones, teeth whitening and mortgages. “I love Google,” Schoemaker says. “They changed my life.”
So here Shoemoney is, admitting on a national-level that he utilizes cloaking to bypass Google’s crackdown on PPC arbitrage. This is in violation of the where it says:
Do not employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
If Google is really serious about cracking down on PPC arbitrageurs, they will have to ban Shoemoney. For him to announce to the world that he has, does, and will continue to effectively cheat the Adsense program by violating their TOS is a major blow to Google’s reliability. After all, $2 million is a lot to take out of advertiser’s pockets.
What do you think?
Its a pity he would do this. I am in awe.
They would have to lookup his account and prove it. Just because he says it - doesn’t mean they can convict…. ok, now I think about it Google can do anything they want. But if he has made $2 million you know Google has made at least $4 million. He is one of their best employees.
Google doesn’t want the arbitrage problem fixed.
Shoemoney doesn’t talk like this or he has a plan for revealing something like this. He will remain one step ahead of most people. No worries.
chad
Let’s remember cloaking and IP delivery are similar but distinctly different. Let’s not also forget Google is perfectly fine with IP delivery.
As true as that is, it seems that Showmoney specifically used the term ‘cloaking’ to the reporter, and definately indicated that he is using this technique to bypass Google’s crackdown on arbitrage.
Presenting a *completely different* site to visitors fromt the Googleplex so that they do not realize that he is performing arbitrage is cloaking by any definition.
I have no dount that somebody at Google has got to have a major problem with this.
Well the first set is to admit you have a problem (Google), and the Second step is to start doing something about it!
Folks - I’m gonna have to halt this gravy train…
Shoemoney just posted this to his blog: http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/12/07/forbes-article/
Sounds like he was massively misquoted. Look for a retraction soon!