First of all, I would like to point out that I do not cheat adsnese or any PPCs nor do I condone clickfraud. Fraud is fraud and most blackhats that I know are making too much money to play with clickfraud.
That being said, I will add 2 more ways to cheat adsense that are not on adsense cheat’s list because I think the problem is with the PPC system. It must be overhalled - if you leave a pile of cash on your front lawn, someone is going to take it. It’s that simple.
11. Click Tunneling. This has been done in Porn for a while. Go to many TGPs and x% of the links are tunneled or redirected to somewhere other than what the link says it is (normally another TGP for traffic trades). Applying this model to adsense, one could take real clicks on non ads and tunnel them through an adsense ad. It’s difficult, but unfortunately not that difficult.
12. Clickfraud Virus. Create a virus or malware that is included in some real program that will surf and click ads in the background. One would probably need to emulate a browser that runs in the background, but it can be done.
PPC is a house of cards waiting to fall down. It is not a question of if but a question of when.
2 Responses to “Cheating Adsense - Clickfraud”
With this and Adsense Bowling (http://www.thegooglecache.com/?p=5) it looks like both Publishers and Advertisers are getting the short end of the stick, while Google laughs its way to the bank.
The problem is that even with a % being attributed to click-fraud, it still does not mean that it is not profitable. The PPC economy will shift to take this into account, just as shopping mall deals with loiterers.
I think you are right in saying that “PPC is a house of cards waiting to fall”. Whenever there will be to much fraud for the major players they will shift to a PPC format where the C stands for Conversion. And they will probably earn even more that way