I am an Adwords advertiser and recently I have been comparing my page views (how many times a visitors sees a page) to the number of clicks Google has been charging me. On November 25th, my Web site had 308 page views, but Google charged me for 705 clicks.
In any other business, that would be called fraud. Part of me wonders if Google is doing this to other Adword advertisers and that is how they are “jacking up” their revenues, thus increasing their stock price that hasn’t been seen since the “Dot.com” bubble burst in the late 1990’s.
My question is, has any one else experienced this problem and is there any legal action against Google I can take not only to help me but also other unsuspecting Adword advertisers maybe being taken advantage of without their knowledge?
I contacted Google by email. Google does not have a customer service phone number. Google issued their stock well after Adwords was well on it's way of generating revenues for the company.
And don't forget: Google Inc., according to the AP wire, had illegally issued more than 23 million shares of its stock to hundreds of employees and consultants, putting a legal risk into the launch of their IPO.
Answer by:
Gem :
Contact google and ask for an explanation. There may have just been a glitch, not a huge conspiracy run by Google.
Google didn't offer stock in the 1990's, they went public and sky high in value after that.
Good luck.
Recently signed up to google adwords for my property website, but I can't get my ad to appear. I'm targeting a very specific conference in Cannes called LIONS so have picked "cannes lions" to be my keywords, yet depsite being within budget, despite there being only 1 or 2 other ads appearing, I cannot get my ad to appear. The campaign is "active" but it just doesn't work. It did briefly work with google network but has never actually worked for google search itself….I appreciate it's all a bit vague but has anyone any ideas as the google email helpdesk refuses to answer my emails…..
Best answer by:
J.J. :
A few things came to mind when I saw this question
1. Maybe you weren't one of the top 3 or 4 other bid advertisers for that keyword selection which made the google adwords ad not appear on Google search. But I did the search myself and say only two competitors
www.riviera-luxury-villas.com
www.luxury-rentals-cannes.com
If you aren't one of these villa locations, check back your settings to make sure you didn't make a mistake in setting up the account. If no mistakes then you probably need to bid more per click to beat out the other competitors (2……er?).
2. I'm presuming that it is the advertisers awards and not the film festival that takes place in France?
Checking a keyword suggesion tool Overture's
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
I saw that only 338 searches for "cannes lions" was made in January 2007. So you do have a small targeted market.
The problem is probably that the market is too small?
Not many people surfing on to search for cannes lions directly and missing your ad.
Another tool Wordtracker-showed only 3 searches for the day
Try changing up the keywords with more phrases. If you type in cannes alone in Overture it gives a few. But bear in mind that a lot of the combinations given for that is for the "cannes film festival".
I will be using Yahoo Search Marketing, Google adwords and Microsoft advertising to attract customers to are online store selling Greeting Cards, Handmade Cards and Color Paper
The price per Card is £2.99 for Greeting and £3.99 for Handmade Cards. This includes postage costs and recipient service.
We will be using Google adwords which costs £0.15-20 per click for associated search terms such as "birthday cards". Google estimates that for every 10 clicks the company will receive 1 sale. Our cards cost £1 + to make
Answer by:
Better Life :
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I'm still very unhappy with Adwords, after my last question about it I now have click fraud software running (thanks guys never heard of that). The problem now is that the software is only showing a fraction of the clicks adwords is charging me for. Again they ignore all my emails but i cannot afford to cancel the account as I get a lot of work through it. What can I do? I'm certain they are scamming at least £60 from me weekly? Any ideas would be great. Bear in mind that they just ignore all of my emails.
Answer by:
Steven :
I'm sure you are checking this but I'll suggest it anyway: Are you sure that the days you are checking for are the same days you are being billed for.
Also remember there are 2 sides to the Adwords ads. One shown on specific searches that include your keywords and the other shown on websites that show your keywords or related words.
Google do inform you that the stats shown on their site are not up to the minute. Keep the logs from your click fraud software and persist in contacting Google. If you really suspect fraud then you may need to use the legal route and call in the law.
Recently I have had the default selections for my worldwide adwords campaign (English only). I mean that I am targeting every country offered with Google.. I owe around $1,000-1,500 a day and receive a lot of clicks from my content network. However, I am fearful that most of my business comes from the actual search network with Google's engine and due to either the relevency of content and where it is displayed or the fact that people probably aren't looking directly for my service where they may find it (on random adsense pages) that I am wasting money/clicks with leaving the content network enabled.
Cliff note question:
Is google adwords content network good enough for a click all the way through a sale consistently enough for me to continue using it or should I just stick to the search network? All answers appreciated
Answer by:
Michael M :
I asked myself the same question. Thinking that search was the way to go. So first I ran search network only for two weeks then I switched to both content and search. I found that my sales as a percentage of clicks was actually better with the content network enabled. And the clicks were cheaper. After I thought about it for a while, I came to this conclusion: People who are actively searching for a product, are probably going to search several sites to compare, It is unlikely that they will just click an ad, and make a purchase, these days it is so easy to shop around. Whereas on the content network, you may get more impulse buyers, they see the ad, it gets their attention, and they buy. I am sure the results will be different for everybody, depending on what they are selling. I would think the more common the item you are selling the worse it will perform on search, but a more obscure product would do much better. It would be pretty easy to opt out of content for a while and compare your sales per click. I would be curious to see how it works for you.
hello im having trouble login into adwords for google. I can login into my gmail but I cant loging into adwords . I change the password but it dont work can anybody help me. Where can I go to correct this?
Best answer by:
Zyfert :
I had a message from Google that the site would be unavailable for 4 hours due to system maintenance.
Try again after 4 hours and see.
Regards, Zyfert
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