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Any success reporting faked clicks?

Adwords consuming my money with fake clicks

         

silverbytes

1:21 am on Jan 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Started to receive high amount of clicks (at least that's what my google stats show)
I suspect those are faked at least part of them, many are 0:00 lenght. My site didn't received more contacts with that increase and in last month clicks increased up to 10 times. Reported the issue but hadn't response yet.
Anybody suffered the same and got any success reporting to Adwords?

venrooy

3:19 am on Jan 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've been having the same problem. One thing that I've done is to isolate the fake clicks. My clicks were coming from one Ad, and it was from someone in the US. So I seperated that campaign into US and non US. And then kept the bids low for the keywords that were bringing in the fake clicks.

It doesn't solve the problem, but it does keep it cheaper until google helps you out.

silverbytes

2:58 am on Jan 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I stopped the affected campaing completely, but I'm still worried since I already lost money in fake clicks and I'll loose real clicks in future.

I tried with other campaings leaving just ads to show in google search. I guess most of faked comes from sites running adsense...