Is Google Doing Something About False Clicks

I am sure anyone who replies to this thread has advertised on Google many times,
and possibly had a spectulation of having Ads being clicked on to get you to
spend more money.

Is there a way Google can track any clicks coming from competitor who is also advertising on the Same Keyword?

What if competition is randomly clicking on the ads to increase the spending
amount for a campaign, and eventually costing the advertiser a lot of money?

Is Google actually doing something about this or can people get away by
killing your motivation and seeing no conversions what so ever?

 

They have very sophistciated click-fraud detection in place http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6114

 

Nope they arent doing anything. They say they are but they aint.

 

They're pretty good at catching competitors who are obviously doing this.

 

Competitors IPs will be closely monitored for related click activity.. However, as they are marketing the same product / service, they may legitimately click on ads with the same keyword, for whatever reason. So single clicks here and there may well go through as valid.

Chuckun

 

Yes, I agree. But still they fail most of the times.

 

I'm sure it's all speculations. Who can honestly estimate Google's success rate at fraud prevention?

 

there is no proof they do it, neither the proof they don't

 

you are going to lock your account

 

They to need some clicks as to finish our daily budget soon. i don't think so google have any programming to stop that

 

Offtopic: Thanks for that post in your signature homie


Ontopic: I wouldn't toy with the adsense Google are full of really smart people, if you get banned you'll really regret it!

 

I think the more money you spend with adwords then the more protection you get. If you are only spending a couple hundred a month then most likely you will get false clicks.

If you have an adwords budget around $10k then you will have a personal account manager who will look after you and make sure you don't get false clicks.

 

Are you sure about this?

 

The best thing you can do is try to obtain your competitors ip addresses and then block them from seeing your ads.

 

Good point jixxerrob, how would you begin the process of blocking them? Do you been the blacklinks ?

 

How would I go about which part? Obtaining ip addresses or excluding ip addresses from seeing my ads?

 

It is very difficult to exercise control over fraudulent clicks. This is the one big problem with the Google Adsense affiliate program.

 

Interesting enough about a month ago I received a credit from Google in my adwords account for false clicks. It was only like $8 dollars but very interesting none the less. So I am assuming they are trying to combat this in some way. Whether it works or not is another story.

 

I have heard that they only charge one click per day per ip address, so your competitor can only get one click in

 

Its all about making the money. They can do whatever they want or don't want to do.