Warning about SheToldMe
93- sunforged
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I was doing some research into the site, specifically on some media buys.
As a potential advertiser they show traffic patterns and referrers to the site.
The 2nd biggest source of traffic is:
w/ 789 refers today onedollarPTC .com
yes, PTC, paid to click, regardless of whether those hits go directly to your "scoop" with the way the adsense revshare works
your pub-id is displayed 100% of the time to your referrers.
In general that is a very dangerous association to have with your adsense account, I highly suggest pulling your pub-id out and/or mass mailing the site admin to block access from that ip, as to not endanger your adsense account
Usually, im the one to laugh at TOS, but this isnt an example of one those situations, its an obvious and easily trackable violation- 93
- sunforged
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the admin contact is:
contact@shetoldme.com
you can see the site stats for yourself here
http://www.projectwonderful.com/adverti … amp;type=4
and the buyer of the traffic seems to be:
Hubpages profile = HSanAlim
Very sorry if Im wrong, but thats one of the scoops that is directly advertised on the PTC site, so even if not responsible should be aware that their account is in the most jeopardy 
100- Uninvited Writer
- 5107 posts
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I went and took my adsense out also. I wasn't earning much anyway, maybe $2 today.
I feel bad now about referring people if it can damage their Adsense account
96- Lady_E
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sunforged wrote:
I was doing some research into the site, specifically on some media buys.
As a potential advertiser they show traffic patterns and referrers to the site.
The 2nd biggest source of traffic is:
w/ 789 refers today onedollarPTC .com
yes, PTC, paid to click, regardless of whether those hits go directly to your "scoop" with the way the adsense revshare works
your pub-id is displayed 100% of the time to your referrers.
In general that is a very dangerous association to have with your adsense account, I highly suggest pulling your pub-id out and/or mass mailing the site admin to block access from that ip, as to not endanger your adsense account
Usually, im the one to laugh at TOS, but this isnt an example of one those situations, its an obvious and easily trackable violationGreat, I only joined 2 days ago.
I would love to know what other Hubbers think, particularly Uninvited Writer - as she recommends the site and is one of the top 10 referrals noted on the site's webpage. (I mean this in a positive way).- 93
- sunforged
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
I went and took my adsense out also. I wasn't earning much anyway, maybe $2 today.
I feel bad now about referring people if it can damage their Adsense accountIt wouldnt be your fault!
One of the users has probably purchased the traffic, its not uncommon for people to try and trick adsense in that way, but they always get caught.
The site admin can very easily insert a code that blocks all traffic from that IP.
What concerns me is that they openly showed this referrer on their advertsing page, when they should have known that the association was dangerous, I imagine their income is adsense based also!
As THE top referrer an email from you may convince them to make that small change - 96
- Lady_E
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
I went and took my adsense out also. I wasn't earning much anyway, maybe $2 today.
I feel bad now about referring people if it can damage their Adsense accountJust reading your post. No need to feel bad
- a lot of websites mislead. You've taken out your Adsense but did you leave your pages in as backlinks or did you delete your whole account? - 93
- sunforged
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Lady_E wrote:
sunforged wrote:
I was doing some research into the site, specifically on some media buys.
As a potential advertiser they show traffic patterns and referrers to the site.
The 2nd biggest source of traffic is:
w/ 789 refers today onedollarPTC .com
yes, PTC, paid to click, regardless of whether those hits go directly to your "scoop" with the way the adsense revshare works
your pub-id is displayed 100% of the time to your referrers.
In general that is a very dangerous association to have with your adsense account, I highly suggest pulling your pub-id out and/or mass mailing the site admin to block access from that ip, as to not endanger your adsense account
Usually, im the one to laugh at TOS, but this isnt an example of one those situations, its an obvious and easily trackable violationGreat, I only joined 2 days ago.
I would love to know what other Hubbers think, particularly Uninvited Writer - as she recommends the site and is one of the top 10 referrals noted on the site's webpage. (I mean this in a positive way).The only way one would have been able to discover this is by trying to Buy advertising, Im a regular media buyer, certainly teh site seems great and I would refer others to, if I hadnt seen the ads pages
- 93
- sunforged
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Final update:
Another top referrer is
autohits.info also a paid to click/paid traffic site
and the hubprofile that is suspected has just cleared 10,000 views in less than 2 months with 17 hubs, pretty good achievement for using legitimate traffic sources ?
Personally, I pulled my pub-id and notified my known referrals, will keep all scoops for possible traffic and signed up and inserted the "chitika" code into the scoops.
As I previously did not use the service, could care less if I lose it, so at least their is some chance of direct earnings from previous scoops - 93
- sunforged
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*deleted, nevermind*
I followed someone's advice here on HP to join She Told Me So and pasted a link to their site on nearly every hub I wrote. Should I now remove those links and close my account with She Told Me So? Please tell me what to do.
- 100
- Uninvited Writer
- 5107 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 116
- Fans: 711
Sue Adams wrote:
I followed someone's advice here on HP to join She Told Me So and pasted a link to their site on nearly every hub I wrote. Should I now remove those links and close my account with She Told Me So? Please tell me what to do.
I am keeping my account, I just took my Adsense out of it. So, I won't earn money but will get the backlinks.
Uninvited Writer wrote:
Sue Adams wrote:
I followed someone's advice here on HP to join She Told Me So and pasted a link to their site on nearly every hub I wrote. Should I now remove those links and close my account with She Told Me So? Please tell me what to do.
I am keeping my account, I just took my Adsense out of it. So, I won't earn money but will get the backlinks.
"just took my Adsense out of it" How do you do that? Deleting the links from my hubs?
- 100
- Uninvited Writer
- 5107 posts
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Sue Adams wrote:
Uninvited Writer wrote:
Sue Adams wrote:
I followed someone's advice here on HP to join She Told Me So and pasted a link to their site on nearly every hub I wrote. Should I now remove those links and close my account with She Told Me So? Please tell me what to do.
I am keeping my account, I just took my Adsense out of it. So, I won't earn money but will get the backlinks.
"just took my Adsense out of it" How do you do that? Deleting the links from my hubs?
When you created your account you put your Adsense account number in, just delete it.
94- Jane@CM
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I deleted my adsense. I wasn't getting any traffic from there any how.
Thank you uninvitedwriter, I deleted my adsense now.
91- glendoncaba
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Why would SheToldMe post this on their site:
"This field is also optional, if you have a Google AdSense account you can earn money on SheToldMe.com for each scoop that you create. If you enter your AdSense Publisher ID, an ad will be displayed at the top of your scoops 100% of the time and you'll earn money as if the AdSense code were on your site. This AdSense sharing method is allowed by Google, do not fear for your account, SheToldMe.com doesn't violate AdSense policies in any way and in your own scoops it's up to you to make sure you don't talk about topics not allowed by AdSense, like you should do on your own site."
Especially the bit about "doesn't violate".
I am not being difficult, but is there something going on that I'm not getting?
I'm going to pull the link from my HubPages profile. But will leave the pub ID until confirm possibility of violation.- 93
- sunforged
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what your not getting is that most likely a USER of the site, not the actual site admin is creating the problem, unfortunately the admin apparently isnt very sophisticated or knowledgable enough to protect themselves.
The site admin is probably making way more from adsense than u imagine, and is put in a way worse place than we are by these actions.
Im guessing, good idea by not so competent people
The site is fine, the problem is there incoming traffic is coming from a ptc site, since your adsense code is directly visible on the site, you are at risk....using the site w/o inputting adsense makes you safe...then you get traffic benefits,
now if UW only has made 2.00 as the very TOP referrer than the risk is not worth the tradeoff og having your pub-id on a badly managed page.
hopefully you have always noticed that the design was very poor, which reflects on the overall abilities of the owners - 91
- glendoncaba
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OK. Will watch situation. Have removed Google ID. Don't know if it's embedded in scoops.
- 91
- glendoncaba
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Contacted SheToldMe and received this reply:
"Hi again,
Could you please also make it clear in the forum that the original poster sent me an email which I answered 5 hours ago, and on the forum I see that he keeps on replying as recently as 1 hour ago, like if I didn't send him the explanation. In particular he says:
"unfortunately the admin apparently isnt very sophisticated or knowledgable enough to protect themselves"
which is clearly false since I explained to him that I already long ago checked where autotraffic sites are sending traffic, and since it's on pages with no adsense on it, there's no reason to worry about adsense at all. And blocking a site is easy if needed.
I don't know what really is going on since I've sent my reply 5 hours ago and he keeps on saying things like:
"now if UW only has made 2.00 as the very TOP referrer than the risk is not worth the tradeoff og having your pub-id on a badly managed page."
when UW clearly said it was just for "today" which isn't finished and not for all time earnings. And that finally there is no risk indeed.
I don't know why he's doing that, perhaps for an unknown reason or for no reason at all, perhaps he didn't get my email... but it's not fair.
Cheers,
James
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On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:59 AM, She Told Me <contact@shetoldme.com> wrote:
Hello and thank you for notifying me about this forum thread. I already received questions today about this source of traffic.
If you would be so kind as to notify people on this forum about my answer, thank you, because I do not have an account on hubpages or this forum and my answer is very simple:
Several users of shetoldme wrongly think that autotraffic sites such as onedollarptc are useful. Of course when I first noticed referrers from those kind of sites I've checked where they send the traffic to, before taking action to block the traffic.
I've noticed that people who use autotraffic sites know that adsense and autotraffic don't mix together, so they simply send the traffic to their referral link.
Their referral link redirects visitors to the user registration page on shetoldme which has no adsense whatsoever.
I know that people are quick to worry about risks to their adsense account, and I would be the first. I've read the forum and the reactions, but what can I do really? I don't think that registering to this forum and posting an answer myself will do anything as it will be lost in the thread. The best would be for the original poster to edit his first post and update it with this information. If you could re-assure other by posting part of my reply, it would be more efficient I believe.
It's easy to block traffic from autotraffic sites, the only reason why I didn't do it is because no adsense is displayed on the pages to which this (useless) traffic is sent.
Cheers,
James
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- glendoncaba
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Now you guys are the experts. What am I to make of this? They r saying that the autotraffic is going to places where there are no AdSense ads.
Sunforged over to u.
