Does the bid tool cost me?

since it would be a competator clicking, right?

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I have had a few clicks to my site from the overture bid tool, and I was wondering if anyone knows if this counts as a click toward my account.

It seems to me that it shouldn't because more than likely a competator would be the one seeing who is bidding on a term by using that tool.

Has anyone checked into this?

[jeremy goodrich]

Very good point! More than likely, it would be an advertiser or competitor, etc that clicks a link from within the 'view bid tool'. I have no idea if they bill for these or not, though.

Great question for their CS team - be sure to let us know what they say!

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Alright, I finally got a reply from Overture.

Rest assured that you are never charged for clicks from the View Bids Tool, or whenever an Overture employee clicks on your listings for any reason. Due to propriety concerns, we cannot divulge how this is done, however, please know that you are never charged. While we do not charge you for these clicks, we cannot remove them from your web logs.

well, ok, I'm not charged for clicks from the bid tool, but a big 'DUH' about the web logs.

I can't blame them for including that though, I'm sure they deal with many paranoid idiots every day. (I know I do)

they go on to try to sound reassuring... that's fine, all I really wanted was a simple 'no - that doesn't count as a click' answer. Funny how complicated Customer Support has gotten.

They also sent me a Word file, I'll let you know what it says.

[lorax]

And the Word file says?