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AllABoutCookies.org sold for $5.2 million dollars on Flippa last month. Website sale not domain name sale. The site according to Flippa is one of the top 500 most popular sites in the world based on Moz.com‘s Domain Authority metric. What is even more incredible is this was just 100% Adsense. According to the article no […]
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Massive backlinks and traffic is the entire value as could and would easily overlook information domain merit at a glance.
 
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Its a hot topic. I bought GDRPI ,com to set up as a blog for GDPR information. As per always, I am doing other stuff and will miss the boat
 
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Hacker/Seller drives traffic to his own site using a botnet, cheating Adsense, and uses the inflated revenue to sell the domain for a ton.

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Traffickers of some sort use a botnet to inflate Adsense revenue, so that when the money laundering/sale takes place there will appear to be justification for why someone bought a worthless domain for $5,000,000.
 
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Hacker/Seller drives traffic to his own site using a botnet, cheating Adsense, and uses the inflated revenue to sell the domain for a ton.

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Traffickers of some sort use a botnet to inflate Adsense revenue, so that when the money laundering/sale takes place there will appear to be justification for why someone bought a worthless domain for $5,000,000.
it's 2022, google will know you are cheating before you send the first click.
 
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it's 2022, google will know you are cheating before you send the first click.
this is far from true :) people make a living fooling google
 
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it's 2022, google will know you are cheating before you send the first click.
If you use a residential botnet and a real browser, how will they know?
 
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This is a good reason why I only deal in the value of the domain itself.

There are too many shenanigans when it comes to traffic and ranking stats. It is too easy to game the system.

At least with a quality domain you have the foundation itself.

Brad
 
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If you use a residential botnet and a real browser, how will they know?

Most business used google analytics, most set goals etc. Google knows if your traffic if worthless. This is why the web is loaded with posts about adsense banned accounts. Also why most parking companies can't use google.
 
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Most business used google analytics, most set goals etc. Google knows if your traffic if worthless. This is why the web is loaded with posts about adsense banned accounts. Also why most parking companies can't use google.
Nobody said the guy didn't get banned
 
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Most business used google analytics, most set goals etc. Google knows if your traffic if worthless. This is why the web is loaded with posts about adsense banned accounts. Also why most parking companies can't use google.
Google is a lot smarter than most people think. Aside from that scammers and spammers are a lot smarter than most people think. The war is constant and never ending. Some people will ALWAYS be able to game the system, however watertight it is. If you live and breath spamming and scamming you'll find a weakness somewhere. Just a matter of time. Google hasn't yet fully mastered the art of computing localised customs, phrases and traditions, though it's getting there.
 
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