Somone keeps clicking on my ad and costing me big money!

by chini
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Some dude from the uk, keeps clicking on my ad for other keywords in which my offer shows up for. He has accumulated over 12+ clicks and google has charged me. I have excluded his IP address, but thats not going to reover the $8 he has cost me on my campaign. Is there any way of preventing something like this in the future?
#big #clicking #costing #money #somone
  • Profile picture of the author MikeMorgan
    It is recommended to use some PPC click fraud tools with nice reporting system and report Google about the situation including the full detail of the case .

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  • Profile picture of the author Jenie0109
    uhm... poor you that man is mean doing monkey business.. Havent encounter anything like this yet .. You might want to apply Mike's advice and use a fraud tool. That might help...
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  • Profile picture of the author captivereef
    That sucks, you would think Google would have a system in place to figure out what is going on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tripti_LPM
    There are several companies that deal directly with click fraud issues. They work with you to recover money from the PPC search engines if and when fraudulent clicks exist. These pay per click audit firms include Who'sClickingWho.com, TrackingROI.com, ClickDetective.net, ClickLab.

    Also, you can take fraud data to Google and demand a refund for the fraudulent portion on the basis that they shouldn't be making money on what can be demonstrated to be fraudulent.
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    • Profile picture of the author dorim
      Originally Posted by Tripti_LPM View Post

      There are several companies that deal directly with click fraud issues. They work with you to recover money from the PPC search engines if and when fraudulent clicks exist. These pay per click audit firms include Who'sClickingWho.com, TrackingROI.com, ClickDetective.net, ClickLab.

      Also, you can take fraud data to Google and demand a refund for the fraudulent portion on the basis that they shouldn't be making money on what can be demonstrated to be fraudulent.
      Thank you for this info!
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  • Profile picture of the author gabibeowulf
    well .. think of it this way ... your CTR is up .. so your CPC will be lower ...
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    • Profile picture of the author superstylefactor
      well, google might have known it might be an act of fraud, they were probably banking in the possibility of you not taking any actions on the $8 you lost! imagine the billions, trillions of clicks that google has "closed one eye" on, that might probably constitute to a large percentile of their revenue pie!
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  • Profile picture of the author ebuyer123
    As you said it is a BIG MONEY....but it was $8.00 not $800
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  • Profile picture of the author monopuff
    I remember as soon as I learned that those ads were pay per click I didn't click them. Kind of like bad karma.
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  • Profile picture of the author mcpeak5632
    Use a fraud tool..And hope for the best that it wont happen to you anymore in future
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