Some of you got into this old trick by Google ads and didn’t know anything about fake shops! But we should say that some big blackhatters are earning more than $100k/month with this method, and it has much more risk than other niches. In this guide, we are going to tell you how they do this and what the risks of it are. DON”T TRY THIS IF YOU ARE NOT LOOKING FOR TROUBLE! 

What is a fake shop?

As it says, there are some types of shops that look real, but at the end you don’t get anything for your money! This is a fake shop, and some of these earn at least $1k/day with just $50/day spent in Google or Facebook ads. Now you are thinking, How do they not get caught while doing this? In fact, blackhatters use something called GMC (Google Merchant Center) to do such a thing.

At first, they get a GMC for their domain and website, and this part is harder than you think because Google won’t verify random sites for GMC. When you get a verified GMC, then your ads will be displayed like the screenshot:

By getting a verified Google Merchant Center account, you can easily run your ads for your targeted audience, so it’s like easy money? But before all things, you should know that to run such a campaign and earn money, you need to have some $$$ and big balls! If google catches you doing this, then you gotta deal with the government.

How does a fake shop work?

Now you know what a fake shop is, but do you know it works? Actually, you need to have some bank account and budget for cloaking and an old Google Ads account to think about fake shops, but we are saying it’s not worth it and it’s totally illegal all over the world. We wrote this article for those who are curious about it and want to know everything related to their marketing job. If you are looking for more information about this, ask us in the comment section or visit some blackhat forums.

🕵️‍♂️ First: The design! Make it look real

These sites look just the same as real ones, and you can’t find any suspicious thing in them (they even have a valid phone number and address). For the design, you can buy a shop theme from themeforest and start to customize it. Everything should look legal and real so Google and users won’t be suspicious. You should have an active gateway for your site to get money, but it will get banned in maximum 1 month.

Even some users will report your site to Google, and your account will get banned after hours. In this situation, you need some luck beside technical knowledge. After making the site ready, you need to go for cloaking!

🔥 Second: Cloaking! change the directions

Without cloaking, you have less than a 0 chance to get live and approved. If you are seeing this word for the first time, then it’s better to leave it before disaster because you will get smoked by the government. Cloaker is a code or system that controls your website’s IP! It means you can drive real users to your main page and fool the robots or any other IPs. Let me teach you with just one image 😀 :

With Cloaker, you can drive your traffic wherever you want! With this, Google or any other robots can be controlled and fooled. Don’t even try too fool Google, btw.

If you are looking for the best cloakers for Google Ads, then it’s better to tell you that most of it depends on your Google Ads account quality and campaign creation. You should know to select titles or even descriptions for your ads. We have some tricks to warm up your Google Ads account too!

Is it legal to earn money with a fake shop? 

After all of my words, you are asking if it’s legal or not? Definitely, it’s not legal and if you do this Google will catch you as soon as possible. But about earnings, you need to know that average fake shops earn about $1k-$2k per day with just $50 in ad spend. We have some high-quality Google Ads accounts for sale for white and black hat niches that you can buy with just $100.