Survey of Adwords Buyers Squeezed Out

Did you report click fraud?

[TypicalSurfer]

Simple question, no commentary needed.

If you were recently priced out of the market, have you ever reported invalid clicks to the AdWords team?

Yes or No.

[graywolf]

nope

[pdivi]

no

[luke175]

Yes, numerous times.

Only twice received a small amount of compensation.

Reported 93 clicks from the same IP within an hour. Adwords rep told me their software would have caught that.

3 months later, my 3rd party tracking and their billing still showed the same number of charged clicks.

[bostonseo]

You are reaching on this theory. Bottom line - Google doesn't need/want small time advertisers.

[vphoner]

yes, no compensation given. Google has to remember that big advertisers once were small fry. Kill the small fry and you have no future big frys.

[Alex_Miles]

Yes.

Got compensation, plus a lot of BS. Found a workaround for the squeeze.

[ronburk]

Hmmm, I guess you're only surveying people "squeezed out", which guarantees the survey will have "survivorship bias".

But anyway:

* did report click fraud and got refund.
* didn't get squeezed out.
* small-time advertiser.