updated.com offer an affiliate program which bothers me. I stopped using most of the other PPC SE's because of fraudulent clicks caused by partners with affiliate programs.
Has anyone else had the same experience? I am going to stop showing my ads on Google's partner sites to see if things improve. However, I don't want to because I like most of the partners.
It would help if Adwords had an option to select which sites my ads appear on. It would then be possible to monitor ROI's more closely.
472: [google.com...]
145: [updated.com...]
98: [search.netscape.com...]
50: [google.com...]
48: [ask.com...]
43: [search.earthlink.net...]
38: [xupiter.com...]
25: [search.dogpile.com...]
15: [google.com...]
13: [websearch.cs.com...]
It would help if Adwords had an option to select which sites my ads appear on. It would then be possible to monitor ROI's more closely.
I would also like an option to select on which Google tab you wish to advertise, for example, I already rank well for certain keywords in normal Google, but am misrepresented ;) on Google groups.
What I have seen regarding increase/decrease in sales was the significance of the content of the Ad campaign and how important it is to match it well with the sales content so even if it gets less clicks as long as your ROI is working to better the numbers.
Hope that helps!
If the clicks seem to be fraud or what not -> contact Google.
Anything that makes their adwords program less effective is not good for them, and they will take swift action if something is indeed going on.
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Try typing: xupiter remove into google and you'll see what I mean.
