Website owners have to pay for their websites to be hosted and can easily be tempted to monetize their sites by joining affiliate schemes that pay per click (ppc) or pay per view (ppv) Typically, these schemes promise some dollar amount for thousands of clicks or views. Some of these affiliate schemes are legitimate, but others are not. Last week, we were contacted by the popular Russian search engine Yandex, a technology partner of ours, to help them combat Traffbiz.”]

