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Stopped Adwords advertising

Spam stopped at same time.... coincidence?

         

Robert Scott

4:14 am on Nov 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I've been an Adwords advertiser for years. About 4 days ago I stopped all my Adwords advertising while I made some changes to my web-site.

Unbelievably, the amount of spam in my inbox dropped by 90% almost immediately and I've just had my first spam free day for literally years. I was receiving anywhere between 20 and 200 spam emails per day.

The difference is so dramatic it couldn't just be a coincidence. I'm about to restart my advertising so it will be very interesting to see what happens.

pmac

4:30 am on Nov 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>Spam stopped at same time.... coincidence?<

Yes.

AdWordsAdvisor

2:21 am on Nov 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Robert Scott, I can assure you that Google does not share any of your information. And in the 18 months or so that I've been associated with AdWords, this is the first time I've heard about a seeming correlation between AdWords and Spam.

Weird though, that's for sure!

Please let us know what happens when you re-start.

Mardi_Gras

2:26 am on Nov 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>Spam stopped at same time.... coincidence?

Are you suggesting the spammers went into their databases and pulled your name because you weren't advertising with Google anymore? ;) Perhaps spam is an Overture plot? ;)

Enjoy the shortage of spam, but there is no relationship.

edited for spelling

Tropical Island

10:20 am on Nov 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Is it possible that your e-mail server just initiated a spam filter?

We are with a very large shared hosting company and they added a spam filter that was automatically activated. You have to go to the actual server to set preferences. If you are downloading all your mail to your computer then you wouldn't see it. You have to enter the admin site to adjust it. You can then have all spam dumped into a folder to quickly check it or you can have it all dissapear. We prefer the first choice so we can pick out any real mail that gets picked up in error.

nakulgoyal

3:05 pm on Nov 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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It may be that some companies might be extracting advertisers and then spamming them.

The question then comes, how come it stopped all of a sudden. Must be a coincidence with some other occurance. Spam Assasin on the Server Side. ACTIVATED>