Google is stalking me!

13 years ago

It's happening to me too. I think Adwords is now displaying ads which people once searched for. I am seeing iContact, Thesis and HomeforExchange on every site I go to. Only facebook is shading me from all this.

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Ken28

13 years ago

This has been happening to me for about a month or two now.

I searched "canvas printing" to do some research on competitors. Now, almost every page I visit I'm being bombarded with ads for printing photos on canvas. Doesn't matter where I go on the Internet, the ads are there.

Kind of disturbing me that Google is tracking my searches. *******s.

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

Yeah ... it is creepy. I was searching pricing for CorelDRAW latest version, and for 2 weeks after that even in Gmail, all I got was CorelDRAW ads ... everywhere I went.

What a waste. I already knew where I was going to buy it ... just checking how much savings I was making by using the site I chose.

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skibbz

13 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

Yeah ... it is creepy. I was searching pricing for CorelDRAW latest version, and for 2 weeks after that even in Gmail, all I got was CorelDRAW ads ... everywhere I went.

What a waste. I already knew where I was going to buy it ... just checking how much savings I was making by using the site I chose.

google is smart and have alot of dirty tricks up their sleeves

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Per Action Rob

13 years ago

It's called retargetting, advertisers pay to follow you around the net. Just clear your cookies and you'll get rid of whoever is "stalking" you.

It's actually a really effective tool when used right, unfortunately most advertisers screw it up. iContact hits me all the time, of course im already paying them thousands of dollars a month so they're just wasting those impressions on me by not knowing I'm a customer already.

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Kierkegaard

13 years ago

I don't like the way if I look at something in Amazon, I start getting emails from Amazon promoting similar products. For instance, I saw in my Associates report that someone bought a treadmill and I looked to see how much it cost. Now, every so often I get emails from Amazon telling me all about the treadmills they have in stock.

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Tom B

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kierkegaard

I don't like the way if I look at something in Amazon, I start getting emails from Amazon promoting similar products. For instance, I saw in my Associates report that someone bought a treadmill and I looked to see how much it cost. Now, every so often I get emails from Amazon telling me all about the treadmills they have in stock.

Sounds like good marketing to me.

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Multimedianaire

13 years ago

I think the actual name for the strategy as mentioned by Google themselves is "remarketing".

I'm sure G is just testing it as a strategy to do a data analysis and see how it compares with the contextual advertising results.

I'm not sure how effective the strategy is really going to be, because I visited a site on fridge rentals about a month ago just to check out what kind of keywords were related to the product to use as an example in a presentation I'm putting together, and the darn ad for that company has been following me around like a rabid dog everywhere I go now.

I have no interest in renting a fridge, so it's no use showing me this ad a gazillion times a day - it affects one advertiser's impressions while denying another advertiser with a more targeted ad to the sites I'm visiting their opportunity to get me to visit their site.

I'd be interested to hear results from any member who is doing a PPC campaign and who has opted to use the remarketing feature.

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Scoop

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Multimedianaire

I'm not sure how effective the strategy is really going to be, because I visited a site on fridge rentals about a month ago just to check out what kind of keywords were related to the product to use as an example in a presentation I'm putting together, and the darn ad for that company has been following me around like a rabid dog everywhere I go now.

Hehe, that made me laugh.

I suppose though that for every unusual visitor like you searching out keywords and such there will have been x number of visitors actually interested in renting a fridge, and hunting down these visitors sounds like a good strategy on the face of it. No strategy will target everyone perfectly, as you so clearly illustrate.

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GeorgR. 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kierkegaard

I don't like the way if I look at something in Amazon, I start getting emails from Amazon promoting similar products.

From a marketing perspective this is pure genius and obviously the right thing to do.

In regards to amazon i am always amazed how they exactly know what my interests are and then send me offers for those exact things.

But its creepy also seeing how your personal likes are tracked all over the net.

Those tracking cookies contain a lot information..you would be surprised. What sites you visit, what you buy, your interests, your location...and even more personal demographic stats (as far as i know)
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trishworks4u

13 years ago

yes, have known about this for awhile. It's especially annoying when you build a niche site that you have no interest in (like some online game) and then see ads for it for months.

I hate clearing my cookies because there's useful stuff in there. I've started doing it occasionally though.

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Ken28

13 years ago

It's more irritating because I don't want to clear my cookies. If I cleared them I would have to spend more time inputting passwords and numbers than what it would be worth.

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Roaddog

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken28

It's more irritating because I don't want to clear my cookies. If I cleared them I would have to spend more time inputting passwords and numbers than what it would be worth.

A couple of people said this in this thread...don't understand this.

If you use ccleaner or any other worthwhile cache/cookie clearer there are options to select the cookies you do not wish to delete.

I clear cookies at least once a week sometimes more. Always keep the ones I want.

As far as passwords go, instead of browsers remembering passwords,
you can get lastpass, which is a free password manager and not browser related.

The cookies are only going to get more sophisticated, it is worthwhile to learn how to clear them properly.

Beware the Cookie Monster...the new big brother.

Jim

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Ken28

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Roaddog

A couple of people said this in this thread...don't understand this.

If you use ccleaner or any other worthwhile cache/cookie clearer there are options to select the cookies you do not wish to delete.

I clear cookies at least once a week sometimes more. Always keep the ones I want.

As far as passwords go, instead of browsers remembering passwords,
you can get lastpass, which is a free password manager and not browser related.

The cookies are only going to get more sophisticated, it is worthwhile to learn how to clear them properly.

Beware the Cookie Monster...the new big brother.

Jim

I'm just being lazy

Never heard of Lastpass though. I'll check it out.

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Point Blank

13 years ago

Its been happening to me too. Gotta love the world of IM.

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frankm

13 years ago

LOL and the title of this thread has mysteriously changed too!!

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Patrick

13 years ago

This is not a new thing..

Yeah if you clear your cache or cookies and temp internet files, you wont be "targetted"...

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Peter May

13 years ago

Am I right in saying that the tracking is done when you have the Google Toolbar as this is where I heard Alexa gets their results.

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MagicAce 13 years ago

Yeah I got that too. Banners for two products are following me everywhere around the net.
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Ken28 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter May

Am I right in saying that the tracking is done when you have the Google Toolbar as this is where I heard Alexa gets their results.

No, I don't have Google Toolbar, or any other toolbar on any of my five computers in the house.

I won't allow those nasty little things in my browser.
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- NovaPublications 13 years ago
  
  It is Remarketing or Retargeting, and we have just published the first e_manual to cover this technique. It is a brilliant technique used correctly, but can be a deterrent if used in 'stalker' or 'creepy' mode. Top Internet marketers are using it and as usual keeping it quiet Can't blame them really because it really is effective at retargeting that 98% of visitors who look at your site and leave without doing anything. A handful of marketers are offering to show you how to do it and charging anything from £1,000 to £5,000!
  Remarketing
  
  It is not a new, new technique but last year Google saw its potential and beta tested it until now everyone with an AdWords account can use it. It really is worth finding out about - yes Google give instructions BUT good as they might be at innovation their explanations leave a lot to be desired.
  
  We put our own remarketing programme into operation and had to find out the 'hard' way how to actually get the product working. And of course it is not as clear cut, because as some of you rightly point out a 'blanket' approach is annoying!
  
  But used wisely, in an effective way it's just a brilliant new innovative technique of marketing online. And yes, you are right, internet marketing will never be the same again, never! But isn't that what is wonderful about the Internet?
  
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  frankm 13 years ago
  
  Here's another aspect to consider though.
  
  I'm on Perry's email list, and regularly visit his site. However, a number of his ads seem to point to different pages, or are new to me.
  
  So far I've clicked I think 4 times, out of curiosity.
  
  Does that show up in the stats? Would he want me clicking that many times? Surely once to get on the email list and then return via the emails sent as opposed to the ads?
  
  Is it possible to turn the ads off once I sign up?
  
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savita241

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken Rogers

Google is everywhere, they're like big brother.

hahahaha... google becomes the big boss.

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John Romaine

13 years ago

You should consider uninstalling the Google stalker plugin from your browser.

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Caleb Spilchen

13 years ago

This has been around for a very long time, and it's never been JUST google, their are like 40 ad networks doing this.

Their is a government advertising tracking cookie opt out page, I don't believe I have the link on file.

Caleb

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DrewClement

13 years ago

ReTargeter

Majority of the time, its not Google and its NOT Adwords.

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Tashi Mortier 13 years ago

I must admit that I welcome such features.

I enjoy the suggestions that I get from amazon and I hate spending my time reading ads that have no relevance for me.

I only wish there was a solution to cancel out those ads that have no relevance, because I got them while I did research for articles.

Maybe I should do my research in an anonymous browsing window of Google Chrome.
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Affili8ing

13 years ago

Google is rulling the wolrd

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ibnujusup 13 years ago

yeh.. god bless google :-)
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