Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-10 Thread John Dowdell
Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Does anyone know who owns coldfusionjobs.com? It's a scam site that only > shows advertising and actually is showing ads in a way that is in total > violation of the Google terms of service. I can't block my ads from showing > on it due to the way that they've hijacked

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Rother
Yup, thats the site. Good call Rey -- Alan Rother Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Rey Bango
Hi Michael, This actually was a legit site at one point but it looks like they let their domain expire and it was taken over by an expired domain prospector. Here's what the site kind of looked like back in 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010517212949/http://www.coldfusionjobs.com/ Rey...

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
The person I talked to through Google was clueless and I asked for my issue to be moved up the chain. I know how AdWords are supposed to be served but there is a way of 'hacking it' by using the AdWords search feature and copying the links from that. I'll explain it in detail on Blog of Fusion.

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
You're thinking about onlycoldfusionjobs.com >This is just a WAG, but I remember ColdFusionJobs.com used to be a real >site, with real CF Jobs listed. Looking at this site I thin what we are >seeing is whomever owned the domain let it expire and some A**hole grabbed >it up and is mis-using it. > >

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Alan Rother
This is just a WAG, but I remember ColdFusionJobs.com used to be a real site, with real CF Jobs listed. Looking at this site I thin what we are seeing is whomever owned the domain let it expire and some A**hole grabbed it up and is mis-using it. I've had this same problem with some of my old domai

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Rick Root
I think google ads are supposed to be served on pages that actually have content, and these pages have no content. Plus, google ads are served by javascript. These google ads look like they were screen scraped, as they actually appear in the HTML. And there's no "Ads by Google" tag, which I t

RE: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Hugo Ahlenius
| Does anyone know who owns coldfusionjobs.com? It's a scam site that | only shows advertising and actually is showing ads in a way that is in | total violation of the Google terms of service. I can't block my ads | from showing on it due to the way that they've hijacked the ads so I | want to con

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:16, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > on it due to the way that they've hijacked the ads so I want to contact > them directly to have my content removed. Thanks Email google, they should be fairly quick to have the ads stop working. -- Tom Chiverton **

coldfusion scam site

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Does anyone know who owns coldfusionjobs.com? It's a scam site that only shows advertising and actually is showing ads in a way that is in total violation of the Google terms of service. I can't block my ads from showing on it due to the way that they've hijacked the ads so I want to contact the