That worked fine, then out of interest I wrote it into a db and serve the results to page on my site, so I can refresh the screen and see the latest hits coming in from the google content network.
What I'm seeing isn't very encouraging, am seeing multiple clicks, in one case ten in a couple of minutes, from the same IP (dialup) and site, others seconds apart from the same site and so on -- and I've only had this thing running for 15 minutes!
AWA said here: [webmasterworld.com ] that all clicks are filtered by AdWords before stats are delivered to your account. So, the fact that you see a 100 'suspicious' clicks in your logs does not automatically mean that you've been charged for all of them.
but the important word in the above is "automatically" -- not very reassuring. Given some of the other comments on the board regarding the onerous procedures for reporting suspected fraud to Google, am I better to just turn the content network off, or should I just view the dodgy clicks as the price you pay for bulk traffic and take Google at their word that their pretty sharp on the fraud side of things.
Opinions?
