Hi guys - i really want to share a story - out of my 'pissness' and anger against those ****** called google adwords: I check my balance - at minuted 0. its $199. 10 minutes later, and NO clicks being made - proven with statcounter - my balance was $182. i contacted them about the issue - but because its google, and dont really care abut their small advertisers - i guess they just like to suck the money out of them, in other words, cheat. so here are my following questions to you: 1. whats going on here? 2. did it ever happen to you? 3. how do i check how many clicks i got using google analystics, and seeing in which exact, specific second i got a click? thanks for your help!! Roy.
Nothing apart from your log files will give you 100% accurate logs, analytics and statcounter included. Also, money taken from your AdWords account for clicks isn't always instantaneous, sometimes it lags slightly. What do you think Google have to gain by stealing money from you? Losing a paying customer, or worse if the word gets out? I highly doubt they'd do anything so insignificant to their profits which could harm their business so much.
Just keep contacting them. I know sometimes it can take a few days for them to reply, but they do reply (and with me it's always been with helpful information) eventually Mark
you need to wait a little, sometimes there are lags and the clicks will be shown in 10-30 minutes! But you never know