Anyone else noticed over the past 2-3 months an abnormally large qty of trash impressions and clickthroughs from the adwods Content Network? I showed them to google through the clickfraud form and they said its normal and they were valid.. Its crazy though, these terms are very very specific in a niche industry getting 25000 impressions in a month and thousands of clicks.. This is an item that with top bid on google I will see 50 clicks in a good month. Any idea on how to handle it? Its added up to thousands of $$$. On my site I can tell the come in and don't click on anything. sales and secondary clicks are the same as they were before all this started. Help???
The only way to make Google change its policies is to take your dollars elsewhere if you arent happy. There are plenty of alternatives. Bugs with stats, bugs with adwords, clickfraud, misunderstood ads are all possible reasons Reconsider your choice campaign speil. Eg false advertising. Click here for $100 free clicks but when they click it, they discover in the nasty terms that it requires $50 deposit to get it Eg poor terms Come and Score (its a dating service when actually you are promoting a 5-a-side soccer arena)
you're referring to "trash sites" advertising via adwords and showing up on adsense? they're right. it is valid. without the trash sites it's likely you wouldn't have anyone advertising at all. a lot of the high payers don't opt in for the traffic from content sites.
Yet for some people, traffic from content network gives them a great return! Once again, it's all about tracking. If you're not getting the conversions, then either change your creatives, or drop content network ads from your campaign.
Our ads that we have on there are very specific, there is little chance they would mistake that ad for somthing else. It is niche industry and these are rarely used. The probelm is I know 30k people won't search for this item in a month and thousands click on it. maybe 250 people in a month would search for the brand of the product Its obviously clickfraud. When google says its not do you have no recourse? I have since lowered all my content clicks down to 10cents and below. Hope that will take care of this. Turbosho