The scammers are paid affiliate fees (not to different from click through fees for banner ads) for having brought traffic to particular sites.

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With Presseract, users can subscribe to all their favorite free and paid content with one click.

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However, I do get paid by the click, so excuse me if I go back to looking up stories about Charlie Sheen.

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The icon is a click-to-call ad for which the hotel paid Google at the time of the call.

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Only 1% of visitors to a search-engine Web site typically click on those paid links running alongside the results.

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Paid click growth should decrease from the 24% in the December quarter to the high teens.

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When he paid a visit to the user in person, he saw the words "mouse click" written repeatedly across the screen.

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