To make it easy I just pulled my ads from turkey.
patient2all
Yes, me too.
I think that your ad list should be the same as a firewall list: don't show in a given country unless you really want to.
Also, be aware that your "attacker" may well have been a compromised machine being used as a proxy rather than an acne-ridden student with a grudge, so you should consider using a DNS BL to dynamically block access from compromised machines and known open proxies. For me this seems to have reduced bandwidth costs by about 5% too.
Rgds
Damon
I saw on the demography stats turkey jump to the top so i looked at the visitors details (i use webceo).
Lots of differnet machines but all from the same university.
Can you tell me which countries are on your black list?
I think that it is an error to blacklist by country, as you would have to shut out all of the US (home of most spammers and compromised machines) and China (#2) just for a start! These days static lists just don't cut the mustard.
I shut out open proxies and compromised machines, but dynamically. Look at the "XBL" SpamHaus.org list for example.
I'm simply trying to make it hard for potential attackers to cover their tracks.
On the other hand, when I use AW, I only advertise in English-speaking countries with a fairly high level of general probity (and the US! B^>). But that's more of a targetting and whitelist issue.
Rgds
Damon
Yes, exactly that.
In fact, I block all but a very few URLs from being shown to dodgy users, which means they don't even get to see the HTML pages that contain the ads.
But you could do exactly what you state instead if you wish.
Rgds
Damon
I understand that it is possible to spto showing ADSENSE ads to dodgy ips, proxies ect .. by having a list of them on the server were the web site is been hosted ( i actually have my own dedicated server).
But from there to stopping my ADWORDS on the content network showing is another.
Were do I need to go to read about this for adwords.
Ta in advance
Patrick
No, you could not do what you suggest for *your* AdWords ads.
However, I suspect that G is already doing something similar, at least in deciding which clicks are dubious, eg for later refunds.
Rgds
Damon
without my sending an email to google or in anyother way bring this to google adwords attention, my account recieved a balancing bonus for invalid clicks.
Thanks for the info.
Was it a significant fraction of your monthly account turnover (eg >5% of a month's spend)?
Rgds
Damon
actually in this case it was approx 5% of a months budget.
But on seeing how google did this WITHOUT me getting in touch with them this incident has helped me decide to double my daily spending.
Yes, for all the bad-mouthing of G, I certainly don't think they are G666gle!
Rgds
Damon
but as a SE i personally think they have better relevancy.
on the ad front, i have used overture, and google, and found google simple more flexible.
i mean has anyone tried opening an international campaign using yahoo (arrgghhh all those accounts ...)
