Purchased domain brand new and began sending adwords traffic Didn't promote it anywhere else, so all traffic comes from adwords Pause campaign 2 days ago Statcounter says I got 36 unique visitors today.. what the hell?
That happened to me, I would suggest you calling them up, I got a credit from them for double the amount that my account went over.
I have gotten hits from Adwords weeks after I shut a campaign down. I even have made sales this way. Sometimes I think it might be through cached pages, but since Adsense is javascript, that is not a very good answer. But I have found Yahoo counting Adwords ads on other sites as links to my site, so who knows what could cause this.
Could it be that the visitors come back again to the websites even after you paused the campaign...because they went to your site, and probably bookmark it or something, then come back and buy??
Just contact google and let them know that you kept getting hits after you paused your campaign and ask for a refund for those hits. I don't see why they wouldn't give that money back if you had paused it already.
You never indicated if the hits were actually showing up in your adwords account - you only indicate that you saw hits on a "statcounter". Did you actually go to your adwords account to verify they were charging you for hits on a paused campaign?
This seems a little wierd that so many days after you'd get "clicks in adwords"... be happy that you are getting hits from your statcounter for free.. that's a good thing, but I doubt you'll have "costs" connected to this? Am I right? (Just a wild-goose-guess) -Chris