Google Adwords Click Factory?

[Xstr8guy]

I'm getting a ton of clicks from this url. http://gay.all-you.info/results/Gay-anal-sex.html to one of my adwords campaigns.

I was wondering if this was one of those adwords clicking scams.

[Xstr8guy]

Oh, and this one too... http://aboutcool.info/results/Gay-anal-sex.html

[Xstr8guy]

And another... http://66.235.160.231/ton/search.php?q=gay%20anal%20sex

[Xstr8guy]

I just deleted the keyword phrase 'gay anal sex' from my campaign to be on the safe side.

[Xstr8guy]

Sorry I'm posting to my own thread so much. I just want you guys to be aware of this crap.

And here's one more url... http://www.searchmeup.com/search.php...y%20anal%20sex

[IntenseCash.com]

That is strange and that page definetly looks suspicous. I don't understand why anyone would benefit from doing that.

Mark

[Dzinerbear]

They burn out your daily budget and get rid of the competition.

Doesn't AdWords have some safeguards in place to prevent this kind of stuff?

dzinerbear

[desslock]

Nope. Not really.

A month or two ago, the WSJ ran a very enlightening front page column on click fraud on Google AdWords, and how advertisers are responding to it.

There are situations where down the line Google detects fraud, and refunds the Adwords account.

Steve

[MWCren]

Could those clicks be coming from a google search box on those odd sites? I know they have some kind of program where the sites that send search traffic to google get paid on the adwords clicks they generate. There is a setting in your adwords account that prevents your adwords ads from appearing on off site searches...

In the campaign settings, there are check boxes for search network and content network, I think if you uncheck them, you are then only getting exposure directly on google search pages.

I don't know if that will get rid of those budget burners or not, but its a start.

[basschick]

some people are happy to get hits from the content sites, but not me. i unclick it for every campaign.

[Xstr8guy]

I disabled 'content network' and 'search network' options quite some time ago. So why would I be getting so many hits from these cheesy looking search pages?

[Mamakity]

Just when I was gonna give another "GO" at AdWords. :hmmph:

[robin]

I disabled 'content network' and 'search network' options quite some time ago. So why would I be getting so many hits from these cheesy looking search pages?

I beleive that google adwords considers those as "search sites"... Hmmm but I just noticed that you said that those are disabled too...

I would contact google adwords about that.

I had a problem with similar sites, (they were casino sounding domain names) a few months back however they appeared to be from the "content network" -- guess I had forgotten to disable getting traffic from those types of sites.

[Chilihost]

this is a real issue with ppc search engines, like Robin said, get in touch with google right away and give them the stats you have collected, I am 95% sure they will not only credit you for those clicks but they will also start an investigation on these sites.

cheers,
Luke

[Xstr8guy]

Since I deleted 'gay anal sex' from my search terms, I've received zero clicks from these sites. It wasn't really a relevant search phrase anyways, so no big whoop.