Links that are coming in from an external page

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by igor999, Sep 26, 2006.

  1. #1
    I open my Cpanel and I can see which links my user are coming from. I have started an ADWORDS campaign on google site but I have received links from:

    http://indiansc.com/serve.php
    http://www.mrcppaces.com/index.asp
    http://www.gawwk.com/ica2/search2.php
    http://exam2u.com/
    http://www.nationalguidelines.com/home.php

    I don't want these crappy websites to be showing my ads. I think they have hijacked my ADWORDS on google and displayed them as ADSENSE?? They are driving down my CPM because of all the impressions they are creating.

    On a side note, what is this link: http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads ?

    Thanks
     
    igor999, Sep 26, 2006 IP
  2. GuyFromChicago

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    #2
    They are probably just scraping AdWords results and displaying them as content. That won't have any effect on your AdWords account.
     
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  4. igor999

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    Yes but I don't want to pay for the clicks that are coming from these people that are stealing my adwords and displaying htem as adsense. I don't want to target those people. What do I do to prevent them from displaying my ads? It's bad isn't it because all of a sudden I have to pay $30 from all the clicks that are coming in, and most of them aren't even true customers.
     
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    If they're just scraping adwords results and displayng them as content you're not paying for clicks.

    If your ads are actually running on their sites as adsense ads you can opt out of the content network, or, block certain sites that are in the content network.
     
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    I noticed yesterday that I had a link from a torrent site! Something I assume AdWords would officially steer clear of.

    I looked at the page, my ad was indeed there, in an AdSense-like way, but not AdSense. (It said "Sponsored Links" in grey, that's all). Otherwise, same ad.

    I don't think I'm paying for it, so hey, free advertising. What the hell is the torrent site getting out of it though??
     
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    Are you sure you guys don't pay for the clicks from such websites, I believe I am paying for that. Can you confirm this?
     
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  8. igor999

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    I believe you do which is why I addressed it on this forum. I went crazy and disabled Google Content. I accured over hundred dollars in one day and it wasn't quality clicks as it didn't convert to any transactions. This is one reason why I'm not using Adwords anymore to the degree I used to.

    Can someone also confirm this??? If you have Google content enabled then you can get these externa lsources displaying them as adsense and with each click you gotta pay? Some of my keywords are $0.90 so as a startup i'm freaking out!
     
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    If you're that worried about it just don't display ads on the content network, or, reduce your content bid to something a cpc you're comfortable with.
     
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    (See my torrent-site post above)

    I was NOT a part of the content network when I saw my ad on the torrent site. And it wasn't an AdSense formatted ad. But it was the text, intact, from my AdWords ad.

    I can't see how Google would have had anything to do with it, so I imagine I wasn't paying. Would it be easy to hijack an ad from the search results and put it on a different page, with the pay channels intact?

    And if so, why would a site even go to the trouble of doing this? How would it benefit them? Surely they're not getting money when someone clicks the ad??
     
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    See my original post in this thread. Some people scrape adwords results and display them as content on a page. Now that they have content, they add the Adsense code to that page in order to generate revenue.

    Make sense?
     
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    #12
    Give my sleep-deprived brain time to work out the logic of this ;)

    Here is a screen capture from a search result page on isohunt.com, an it-can't-be-legal torrent site.

    Are you saying that:
    1. A third-party company (if not isohunt itself) is scraping AdWords ads from somewhere and reformatting them for this page.
    2. That company places the ads on isohunt.com.
    3. When people click, the third-party company and isohunt both get a chunk.

    It just all seems so convoluted, and I'm having trouble following the money trail.
     

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    I can't explain the situation you're facing now, with your ads appearing on Isohunt. As far as I know they're using Ipro. What GuyFromChicago is saying, however, I can support.

    There is NO money trail involving you. These guys mass create content and "search" sites and when someone stumbles across their site, they'll see the first 3-4 results being AdSense ads and, to fill in the rest of the "content" so the page isn't just at blank page and to help targeting, they'll scrape the AdWords results on Google on the fly (or scrape to a db, whichever suits their server). Don't worry about it since there's nothing you can do to stop someone scraping, you are, however, getting free traffic (occassionally targeted) and free backlinks.

    To the guy worried about getting clicks from external sites - that's the whole point of the content network. If you don't want it - just disable it!
     
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    I ONLY display my google ads on google, switch off the "content network" as this is where most of the so-called click-fraud takes place.
     
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    Thank you - you did a much better job of describing what I was trying to describe.
     
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    The thing here is questionable for Google.

    I do not have content network ads enabled but I still see the clicks coming from some weird domains or sites. When I visited those URLs, it looks like they scrap Google Adwords Ads that appear on Search Results and display it on their pages. I do not know what they could be benefitting from this but I still pay for these clicks.

    I have yet to write to Google but once I have an update I will post it here. It is not that the traffic that I get from these clicks is not interested in my site, but just that it comes from different site is a questionable activity for me.
     
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    Read this thread. Your questions have been answered already.
     
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    No problems! Although it still seems some people don't get it :rolleyes:
     
    Art, Oct 4, 2006 IP
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    You can filter these sites manualy using the site exclusion tool., Also do a geo target, targetting only the country you want to, when you do not want to show your ads in other countries it will be really helpful
     
    sarathy, Oct 4, 2006 IP