What WritingUp's John Jonas REALLY thinks about you...

Submitted by myspaceoryours on April 2, 2006 - 7:39pm.

The WritingUp drama continues...

There have been several posts lately about WritingUp and the dangers of having your Google Adsense account on that site. What it basically comes down to is that WritingUp has been accused of using illegal traffic exchanges and illegal click exchanges.

Two of the most recent posts on Blogger Party regarding this are:

Writingup, For The Last Time by Maverick

WritingUp has Become a Dangerous Zone - Your Adsence Account May be Banned by George S.

Even our own Blogger Party Admin, Brenda, posted Traffic Exchanges and Protecting Bloggerparty Members

So yesterday on WritingUp, John Jonas posted About Other Blogging Sites. Here's an excerpt...

Recently I know that a few people who are blogging on multiple sites have had their adsense accounts banned. On the other sites, they're claiming the banning was because of click fraud on WritingUp.

I'm here to warn you that if you get your adsense account banned, it's not because you have it on writingup. At least, the chances of it being because you have it on WritingUp is very, very slim. The chances of it being banned because of one of the other sites is very high.

We have anti-click-fraud technology in place. I'm reasonably sure nobody else does.

So, this is just a word of warning to everyone. You can believe whoever you want. You can do whatever you want.

Basically John Jonas is trying very hard to deflect any negative attention from his site by claiming that the problem lies with the "other blogging sites". Also, notice that there is no more information given about what "anti-click-fraud technology" is.

John Jonas is right about one thing though, we can believe whoever we want and do whatever we want. I know that several of you are still blogging over at WritingUp, because I've seen your blogs. I'm sure there are several more of us that are still "lurking" on WritingUp to keep up with what's being said about Blogger Party. And that's fine.

One final note, I found this link and I think it pretty much sums up what kind of person John Jonas really is.

I do think it's funny that that particular post never made it into his actual admin blog that appears on WritingUp, especially when he is trying so hard to appear upfront and honest.

Oh well, maybe he wasn't able to sign into his own site to post it... ;-)

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ModelMom Says:
April 2, 2006 - 9:15pm

i am kinda disturbed by his posts......really unprofessional & childish. that is too bad. i started out over there and have been really turned off by WU lately. thanks for the info.


George S. Says:
April 3, 2006 - 1:03am

I see my Google account daily to check clicking. One day there were 500 clicking in one day. My second account was closed with 300 clickings. All the clickings came from WritingUp channels. Clearly somebody is intentionally closing account of popular blogs there.

If according to John WritingUp is safe then who is hitting the accounts so hard, and only at WritingUp.

Many others bloggers told that they were hit at WritingUP. To clearly know from where the fraud clickings are coming create channels of different sites in Google Adsence. But you have to check the account daily to know the truth.

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Pinkpanther Says:
April 3, 2006 - 1:42am

My friend's Adsence account was banned a few days ago. She told that invalid clickings were in her WritingUP blog.

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Admin Says:
April 2, 2006 - 9:28pm

Ouch! Wow, haha. I'm kind of amazed actually. How'd you happen to find their test site, anyway?

I don't like to bad mouth any person's site, especially when it's someone who might be trying to help others, but when it puts people's AdSense accounts at risk something has to be done. Their anti-click fraud technology is basically once a person clicks too many ads, they no longer display ads on their site to that person.

That's fine, except Google has it's own technology doing exactly the same thing. You cannot get your account banned from your Uncle Henry coming and spam clicking your ads, despite what many might think.

You can get your account banned for using illegal click and traffic exchanges, which WritingUp has still not put a stop to it. Why? I honestly don't understand it. I didn't graduate with a degree in Computer Science and I managed it just fine.

And that's the last I'm going to say about it.


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myspaceoryours Says:
April 2, 2006 - 9:42pm

I found it by accident actually... I was on Alexa.com looking at traffic details for different sites.

Writingup.com was one of them and I just sort of stumbled onto it... it shocked me when I first read it, so I decided to post it here.

Here's the link for Writingup's traffic details on alexa.com.


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Maverick Says:
April 2, 2006 - 9:55pm

Usually it's password protected. But, you know who isn't the most technically savvy guy out there and seems to have made a booboo. :P


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o ceallaigh Says:
April 2, 2006 - 10:03pm

... seems like traffic on BP has been down the last few days. Are people actually believing JJ's "stay away from anyone else" (obviously self-serving) broadsides? Or are the traffic patterns just natural variation?


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Maverick Says:
April 2, 2006 - 10:07pm

It's actually bouncing back a little bit from being way down earlier this week. I'm guessing an advertising campaign ended and wasn't replaced or the like. Of course, I think I said that before somewhere. But, there is one thing to be said about a link to bp's traffic and wu... it's a decent boost for traffic here when wu is down. So, it probably has just been more stable. :P


A Wig That Knew... Says:
April 3, 2006 - 4:00am

He isn't censoring people's links to it or their [lengthy] discussions about it.

The site in the original post is a variety of test posts not viewable to writingup.com bloggers on the writingup.com site.

Therefore blogger party traffic would not be adversely effected. If anything the regular down times at writingup.com is encouraging people to sign up with bloggerparty.

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Admin Says:
April 3, 2006 - 10:50am

Maverick is right. An advertising campaign ended about a week ago and I haven't begun any others. And I'm going to be holding off for a few days until I do. The reason for this is there's some upcoming stuff that should finally be complete within the next week that I'm pretty excited about! So all my focus is there right now, plus it should bring in more traffic and more interest. :)


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Diane Brunner Says:
April 3, 2006 - 3:35am

Interesting

http://bloggerparty.com/blog/diane_brunner


A Wig That Knew... Says:
April 3, 2006 - 3:49am

I succumb, John is looking to be an unprofessional kinda guy. Thanks for posting this. What is this kind of page called? And where did you find the link on alexa.com? I can't find the page.

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Brenna Fender Says:
April 3, 2006 - 11:00am

Can anyone sum up what it says?

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Admin Says:
April 3, 2006 - 11:10am

Unfortunately I did not take a screenshot and it's password protected again. There were simply a number of posts by admin using phrases such as "this is for bloggerparty. Those guys are jerks." and "haha" and strange things. Somebody else may have a better memory than me.


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myspaceoryours Says:
April 3, 2006 - 11:14am

Sure took them long enough to catch on...

Anyway, here's an example of one post:

here's a psot about bloggerparty

those jerks... we'll show them... no more advertisements about bloggerparty.com on the homepage.

John

haha

I took a screenshot of the page this morning...;-)


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A Wig That Knew... Says:
April 3, 2006 - 12:43pm

From The Wig

smksmkwan Says:
May 31, 2007 - 3:08am

In the recent whole week, I tried and tried many times to login writingup.com, the connection is dead up until this very moment. Please tell me is the site already closed. Is writingup.com gone forever?

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