Click Fraud?

**ToddW** · 05-21-2006, 09:16 PM

Who else here has to deal with click fraud?

In April I spent over $200 MORE on advertisements (google adwords) than I did in March and my earnings STILL DROPPED 20%. I'm not talking $10 or $20 less, I'm talking multi-thousands less - yet I paid for 100's more clicks with the SAME keywords I've been using

My highly targetted campaign yielded more visitors, more expenses but LESS results, grrrr

So should I contact google regarding this? Tell them I think I've been a victim of click fraud?

What do you guys do to battle this?

-Todd

**John Scott** · 05-21-2006, 09:36 PM

Are you checking the IP's and tracking the activity?

**ToddW** · 05-21-2006, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnScott

Are you checking the IP's and tracking the activity?

Nothing out of ordinary when comparing the two months... except one is showing 2x the traffic (seriously! slightly more than 2x the traffic in apr. but ~20% less revenue).

julia · 06-19-2006, 04:45 PM

Me ! I am so tired of these jokers clicking on my campaign ! Plus lot of big search engines could stop the fraud if they wanted 2 but it brings so much $$, I believe this is the reason why they do not fight it. Now have you heard about Megaglobe, a new search engine, they say that have tools in place that detects click fraud and won't charge it to the advertisers. If this is true, then this is going to hurt Google and Yahoo real bad.

megamoose · 06-21-2006, 12:23 AM

Click fraud really "sucks" but the thing you have to do is track every single visitor and see who is clicking your adverts and when.

If your advert is getting clicked at a steady rate tehn all of a sudden 100 clicks in a minute, you know something is wrong. Just try and be aware of all your visitors, and ask yourself, "Why are they not buying anything or using our services" Could it be because of your website or just because they are fraud clickers?

There are loads of possibilitys. Good luck finding out what your problem is, and destroying those click frauders

Mark

shahab6 · 06-23-2006, 05:17 PM

I think there are click fraud going with google and yahoo, for example I did adword for google, I got 85 visitors(after that I put a stop to the campagn) from them and no sale, same as yahoo too, I usally get one sale in every 20 visitors from other form of advertisement. I think Something is wrong. Too much click fraud with those. Now I even saw a website that you sign-up with and it encourage you to click on other members website. Its like auto surf website, instead you click on google ads and you get points. And I heard there are a lot of those websites.