Click Fraud.

I suspect competitors are clicking on my ads just for the hell of it. How do they do this. Do they just sit there for three hours witha beer, and a distant gaze or is there software that is doing this for them?
Regards
Valley

 

If it's from the same ip adwords will catch it and not charge you. Click fraud as you're describing is not really possible anymore.

 

That sucks. I stopped using adwords since its way too expensive.

 

Hi mate.
I just thought there may be a proxy combined with a x/y co ordinate clicker
that would hop IP each time.
Thanks
Valley

 

that is a bad news for you. You could report the unusual to adsense team for support.

 

If you know where your competitors are located (use your logs if you can), you could exclude their area from your campaigns.

http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=74701

 

i reported click frauds to google for one of my ads with solid evidence and google put my account under review and then they let go of my account, they didn't charge those fraudulent clikcs tho.

 

Obviously you have never heard of a proxy

 

Yes i think this can be done with a clicker that has build in proxy changing feature.