I show up for results I don't pay for

How is that posible

[ogletree]

I just saw in my logs that somebody came to my site from Yahoo by typing in profession 24 hours. I do pay for phrases that have the word profession in it but not 24 nor hours nor profession by itself. 24 hours is in my description and profession is in one of my titles. I have been seeing a lot of overture crap lately. They have my ads on all kinds of off beat sites and international sites. I just statred using tracking urls that show the refer and ip of the person. I'm getting several hits a day from places I do not want to be on.

I wonder if there was an overture class action lawsuit if they would let you buy the phrase. "overture class action".

Anyway is there a way to stop any of this?

[storevalley]

Yahoo? Have yet to see Overture results on Yahoo, although I was expecting this to happen eventually in the light of recent events.

Have seen Espotting results on Google UK/Ireland, though.

Are you sure the "profession 24 hours" click through didn't come from Yahoo's Google backfill?

[storevalley]

Yahoo? Have yet to see Overture results on Yahoo

(Muses to self) they are listed on Overture's site. I must be going blind ... still can't see any Overture results on Yahoo.

Is there some sort of curious logic involved here?

[ogletree]

I tried to turn of content match advertising and it is still there. I just noticed in my tracking software that it used my phrase subject profession which is bid up to $8. I paid $8 for a $0.10 add.

[John_Shaw]

Yahoo? Have yet to see Overture results on Yahoo...

My Overture listings appear on Yahoo, right at the top.

[seth_wilde]

Sounds like a matchdriver problem, do you use "24" and/or "hours" in your description?

"Anyway is there a way to stop any of this?"

If it's a matchdriver problem you can remove the "24" and "hours" from your description. There should be a better solution SOON.

[Tropical Island]

Starting Friday night the traffic center will be "off line" for 45 hours. Maybe they are going to do something about identifying word match although I doubt it. The system is badly flawed and if they start showing the actual matches they are going to get a flood of e-mails.

How can they charge us for unidentified matches - isn't this a form of fraud?

If they identified them and allowed us to block the ones we don't want I see no problem. In some cases we could never figure out all the variations of search terms that people type in. But to charge us for clicks under a PPC program and then hide the terms that we are paying for is outright fraud.

[seth_wilde]

"Maybe they are going to do something about identifying word match although I doubt it."

I think you'll be suprised.. As of Monday this should no longer be a problem..