Google Apps…for FREE!

by Ken Yarmosh | April 5, 2007 | Posted in: Strategy and Marketing

Check out what this scammer is doing:

1. Bidding on the term “google apps” in AdWords.

2. Utilizing a hosted Google Page, selling the benefits of Google Apps.

3. Directing visitors to get Google Apps for free, simply by clicking on a Google Apps link that just so happens to be an AdSense ad…for Google Apps.

It looks to me like they are paying somewhere in the range of a $3.00 CPC. I would think that would make this scam a bad deal for them. Am I missing something here? Thoughts?

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    April 6, 2007

    [...] Google Apps…for FREE! Crazy, affiliate - he will surely get shut down soon! I’m sure he is making money though. This is basically an adwords / adsense arbitrage play. [...]

3 Comments On This Post

  1. Marcelo Calbucci says:
    April 5, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    I fail to see how’s that a scam.

  2. Nancy Kramer says:
    April 6, 2007 at 1:45 pm

    Asking visitors to click on your Ad Sense ads is a violation of TOS. Just turn him in and he will be gone.

  3. Josh says:
    August 23, 2007 at 11:03 am

    At $3/click, I doubt you could make any money. And, picking Google’s own apps to violate the TOS for seems like a novice. I wonder if it’s someone who’s read one to may “make money online” posts.

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