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Monkeying Around With Clicks
By David Utter
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-08-19
Committing click fraud offers a sure-fire way to get booted out of an online advertising program. Here's a site that helps you get started.
The tongue-firmly-planted-in-banana ClickMonkeys web site promises site owners they can Google-bomb competitors and blastoff into the Media Metrix stratosphere with their offshore click farm!
Based on a Ukranian freighter, the HMS Click Monkey, 20,000 specially trained monkeys utilizing technology generating thousands of IP addresses will click and click and click 24/7 every day. Yes, it's a site publisher's dream. Forget those million dollar claims made by certain AdSense customers, these monkeys can make billions for someone.
Anyone utilizing an online ad program, whether as an advertiser or publisher, ought to take a peek at ClickMonkeys. It lists its CEO as "Sidney Zwibel," a Fellow of the Banzai Institute. Helpful email links to the CEO, and to the "sales and marketing" teams, have been provided on the site.
More importantly, the site lists business practices that, when followed by an advertiser or publisher, will likely get them tossed from an advertising service. "Unless you're competing with Microsoft, eventually your competition's CPC budget will run out, and then your lower cost CPC ads will run!" promises the site.
If a SEO makes you this kind of pitch, run, don't walk, to the nearest exit. Monkeying around with online advertising just doesn't pay.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Email him here.
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