Hi, A week back I started my first campaign with adword.I am already using ask.com and speedyads(Entireweb.com).I must say there are lot of frauds and false click on google. I started with small amount of 15$ and almost 70% of clicks what I received are not genuine as I had tracking software on my site too!I got lot of clicks from same IP address.I guess traffic from search engine are genuine but from publisher it mostly fraud. I must say I have to look out some other alternative like yahoo or bing. google adwords has to work on their click fraud prevention technique. Are you also facing such issue? your comment will be appreciated.
I heard that google is a good company, also they check click fraud prevention randomly, so you get your clicks fees refunded by them, Because google will ban the publisher who use click bot progams, or etc. so you get your money back.
1) Check at the end of the month at billing summary for an entry called: Adjustment - Click Quality 2) Some clicks might have zero value 3) Don't blame Adwords before asking
I would suggest staying away from the content network and instead limiting your ad impressions to the Google search network. The quality of clicks seem to be much better.
This post makes everyone think back of their first campaign. I burn a hole on my pocket yet, I am feel very excited about PPC/Adwords. I do direct linking for affiliate links and make sales.. but still losing money. It doesn't serve the 'make money online' purpose... However, my adwords experience let me aware the power of internet as a marketing tools...
I would write Google and tell them about your experiences - ask them to refund any amounts you paid for clicks that are fraudulent and show proof if you can.
I think that Google, Bing, Yahoo or others have each invalid-click prevention by their ways. I've used Google for long time and found that sometime I got back money from Google for click adjustment. Don't think too bad for any provider you chose. If you don't believe them, get away from them. My experience, 80% for search and 20% for content network, is ok.
Adwords is not definitely a worst program as you are telling. You can come to the conclusion only at the end of the month. Please be patient. Then, throw your words. Hope your money will be refunded at the month end.
There is no software that can increase the number of click. If there have a claimed can do it, be wary, this could be fraud.