Click This! features blackhat spammer

The Click This! show, a podcast hosted by Jenstar as part of the Webmaster Radio series, features DaveN, a blackhat spammer. They are going to talk about suspended AdSense accounts, including how he would go about getting someone suspended from AdSense for click fraud.

Lava Lamps: gifts for Adsense MTV ad testers

Publishers participating in the AdSense MTV premium video pilot should have a package delivered to their address, containing a Lava lamp.

Google detects hidden AdSense ads by div tags

Hari K Gottipati figured out a way to earn Google AdSense page impressions and money without displaying the ads. He thought his method was sophisticated enough that Google won’t be able to detect this.

It turned out to be wrong.

Morale: Never underestimate Google and avoid doing something cheesy. You might get caught in no time and get an account booted.

Google AdSense video ads trigger intrusion attempt alert

Norton Internet Security is triggering medium risk intrusion attempt alerts, even with ad blocking turned off. What caused the alert is a standard Google AdSense video ad.

Either Google has changed their code or it is purely the fault of Symantec, the company behind the Internet security software?