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MyDoom.M, Google and Adwords Overbilling

Is MyDoom affecting Adwords accounting?

         

bcarlos

11:47 am on Jul 27, 2004 (gmt 0)



I started a campaign yesterday on google and while it displays 62 clicks I only have in my affiliate (IdevAffiliate) counter 7 clicks.

I confirmed this too with Urchin statistics since it only shows 15 referers from google being half of them from direct searches.

So, this leads me to think that MyDoom Virus attacking Google is also affecting AdWords in the way that it might count the click but then fail before redirecting the user to the advertised site.

If this is the case Google is charging for non delivered hits.

Could anyone confirm their adwords stats against your own stats?

Syzygy

2:54 pm on Jul 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Would love to check stats, but can't get around adwords admin today. Pages not loading, even after some minutes. Also frequently getting message - unable to make a secure connection...

Syzygy

Fischerle

3:39 pm on Jul 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I studied my statistics closely because of the troubles yesterday, but I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary.