I may have reason to believe that a competitor or somebody else(website owner adsense) is clicking on my adwords. Lately my daily budget of $3 has been draining by 2-3pm . i pay around .8 a click and I have about 12 keywords.. Is there a way that I can sort out Ip's or a way to tell if a competitor is draining my adwords campaign? Thanks
A budget of $3 (3-4 clicks) is really nothing... what value are you getting from this traffic? I can almost guarantee you that it's not a competitor clicking on your ads - it's probably just normal traffic. Google does a pretty good job of click-fraud screening - any irregularities that I've seen in my stats & report to Google had already been caught by their automated filters.
$3 daily budget and you're worried about competitors clicking your ads? I'm not being a dick, but adwords is not for you.
Sorry its .08 a click not .80 cent Adwords is for me because it brought me alot and I mean alot of ssales so all I want to budget for my campaign is $3 which is more then enough for the campaign. I also only pay around .07 to .08 a click , bet you dont..lol
You can use something like AdsenseTracker or other tracking tools but Google can figure out what your dumb (dumb for thinking they'd get away with it) competitor might try. You can also limit where your ads go in the world so you could not show them in his country, region, state, province, city, etc.
Cpugeek, thanks for the laugh! $3 daily budget . . . No disrespect, my friend, but that's funny stuff. Are you sure you're exploiting the full potential of you market and keywords with such a low budget? You could be missing out on many sales. You're in a lucky position to be paying very little for clicks. You should therefore take advantage of the situation, increase your budget and see what happens. You might be happy that you did. Don't be afraid of spending money on Adwords. You need to spend more if you want to make more. Although you might be making a profit with that $3, I doubt it's anything to be excited about. Try to expand a bit. Of course, that's only my opinion. Good luck.
Yep, someone is definitely clicking your ads. You should contact Google, they'll probably issue some sort of courtesy credit.
I can't work out if this is sarcasm or not "someone is definitely clicking your ads".....ummm, yes....that's what they're there for.
I know you have a limited budget and you are concerned about competitor clicking, but with the budget you have set, even at 0.08 there is no basis to assume competitor clicks. I have a campaign that gets 0.01 per click and I still dont assume competitor clicks. Lastly, let me point out that I have managed hundred of client accounts and of those I think only a couple has ever found to be getting many competitor clicks, so I doubt you fall into this category. The biggest thing I have ever found when it comes to fraud is an IP block infected with some type of malware causing all household residents to click on ads targeted to a specific niche. In this case I blocked out the IP range and requested a credit from Google. But you sample size is way to small to come to any conclusions. You are only getting about 38 clicks a day, which doesn't lead me to speculate fraud in any way.
Thanks yeah i making a pretty good profit with my $3 day budget....I get about 40 sales a month and 2 sales takes care of my adwords campaign fees..I''ll try increasing it and see where it goes
Made my day too I pay more than $5 per click... can I ask what keywords are you targeting, I'm curious to see what comes up for 8 pennies .
OK, I am hearing a lot of comments regarding this guys budget. I realize not everyone is in a position to spend mega bucks on adwords, but how about some of you guys who imply you can or do, and are scoffing at his budget, give him an insight into what increasing a budget can bring. Who's prepared to post some figures comparing their budget to profit ratios. If this guy were to increase his budget ten fold to $30-a-day, what kind of percentage increase in profit could he expect to see based upon your experiences? Is one directly related to the other, or is it not as simple an equation as that?
I'm assuming this is strictly running in content?? If that's the case run some reports to find where your ads are running, then you can check out those sites which are converting and disable the ads on the non-converting sites that should help
If you are making profit why the hell would you continue spending $3 a day? How do you guys determine your budget when you first start a campaign with adwords? How to you base this amount?