I guess that was around 20, Click went up in smoke there.

If Fraud Click Adsense don't know what that is, consider yourself lucky. They scrape bits and pieces of legitimate blogs and repost them, as if they were just Adsense link blog. We also make Fog Creek Copilot, which then you control someone else's computer (with their permission, of course) over the Internet. Eventually, it stops benefiting the advertiser, and Fraud advertiser figures it out, and stops paying for the whole charade.

When you connect the dots, what seems to be happening is night scammers are doing four things. Advertisers actually pay Google if down clicks on those ads.

CityDesk FogBugz Fog Creek Copilot You can also email me directly, although my mailbox is an official hot area. You've probably read it, but if you haven't, check out Michael's techInterview site for an example. This is where Google is actually hurt Adsense Click Fraud the long tail world of millions of small sites. I tried to exclude certain countries in my AdSense account, but they seem to go well proxies, so its not much use. You can unsubscribe at any time, course.

Share links to interesting URLs with other readers at Joel Reddit (about). Both are excellent ways to catch up on years of the that appears here without going blind reading it on a tiny screen. There's a complete archive everything going back to 2000.

It's the best way to fix someone's problems remotely. And we're about to launch the Fog Creek Management Training Program, an intensive for college graduates to learn about managing high tech.

The home page is reserved for minor, ephemeral thoughts, but occasionally I write a article. Because the PCs are all over the Internet, they appear to be legit links coming from all over the Internet. Since I've been writing about software development, management, business, and the Internet on this site. First, they create a lot of blogs. There are several popular discussion boards on this site: Joel on Software of Software Design of Software Jobs.

It's easy to evaluate the top 100 or web sites to make sure they're reasonably legit. The minute you put AdSense on your site, you might start thinking, hmm, gosh, what happens if I click on the ads on my site?

It is important to remember that AdSense is just one part Google's revenue. In turn, Google gives a percentage of the money the web site owner. Enter email address to receive a (very occasional) email whenever I write a major new article.

Finally, use those zombie PCs to simulate on the links on your blog.