Click Fraud and always the same letter from Google Adword

Discussion in 'Google AdWords' started by TheSyndicate, Oct 23, 2006.

  1. #1
    I have a sendsmshere.com and for 3 days i was getting massiv clicks from PAKISTAN and ARGENTINA no search only network. They did not spend any time in my site from what i can see and the rest of the countries did not have any clicks beucase the budget ran out to quick.

    I email google and i did it before and i ALWAYS get this answer

    Now i use Analytic is there something in there that can help me? I see no IP adress / Pages in there. In my webstat it does not show what either how to track them down. Now i remove this 2 countries and my profit is back :)

    Our team received your concern regarding increased traffic from Argentina.
    We appreciate your patience while we researched this issue.


    After thoroughly reviewing your account, we were unable to find any
    conclusive evidence of invalid clicks charged to your account. The
    increase in activity you noticed appears to be a result of the
    distribution of your ads on the Google Network. It is normal to see an
    increase in clicks and impressions when your ads begin to show in
    additional search and content sites within the Google network. The clicks
    charged to your AdWords account are typical of normal user and system
    behaviour.


    Please know that the performance of your AdWords ad or keywords varies
    depending on several factors, including user behavior and changes in Web
    content. Web traffic varies from day to day, and this expected fluctuation
    may affect the performance of your campaign.


    The security of AdWords advertisers is a top priority for Google and we
    will continue to monitor all clicks on your ads to prevent abuse. For more
    information about our invalid click policies, please visit
    https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6422&hl=en_GB.


    Sincerely,


    xxxxxx
    The Google Click Quality Team
     
    TheSyndicate, Oct 23, 2006 IP
  2. iBold

    iBold Peon

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    Google lets you target your ads by country, no?

    Just remove those countries from the ads you are running, and problem solved.
     
    iBold, Oct 23, 2006 IP
  3. TheSyndicate

    TheSyndicate Prominent Member

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    i have one camp for every country and one landing page for every country. Yes i paus that campaign already. But this is not the first time and always the same letter.
     
    TheSyndicate, Oct 23, 2006 IP
  4. tunedtv

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    Geo-targetting down to a small list always works for my campaigns better.
     
    tunedtv, Oct 25, 2006 IP
  5. TheSyndicate

    TheSyndicate Prominent Member

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    yes i guess you right. I found a pretty god setting now. But as always you want to get it better but when you try to change it can go both ways. Like a TV reciver.
     
    TheSyndicate, Nov 5, 2006 IP