I turned off content matching for our AdWords account a couple of months ago. Yet a Google search for our URL includes a hit of a Flickr page where our ad was showing. Nice SEO side benefit! But what's weird is, the cached snapshot of the page was taken just 5 days ago! So I'm wondering what would happen if someone were to click on our cached content-match ad. Would we be billed? If so, where might the charge show up in our AdWords account-management page? Thanks for any advice! --Dave
Someone just scraped your ad and included it on page. You won't get charged for it if someone clicks on it.
Um, Flickr is owned by Yahoo, so that would from Yahoo Search Marketing, not AdWords. Anyway, I can't find any ads on Flickr in my searching. Care to provide an example?
Thanks, Johu & Guyfromchicago! I appreciate the gentle reminder that the PPC ad in question is Yahoo. It's still fascinating that Google apparently spiders PPC ads. A propos of AdWords, this possibility has just been mentioned in an interesting blog post: http://www.ppcdiscussions.com/2007/10/google-no-longer-claims-adwordsadsense.html. Other search engines are said to do the same thing. Certainly when I search with Yahoo, our company's same PPC ad on Flickr is the #4 hit. (And we have thousands of pages that provide more-legitimate hits than this.) As far as I'm concerned, this is all great news. Doing PPC apparently will boost your search-engine presence! --Dave