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Why Would They Send Traffic to My Site?

by TotalGaz
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It would seem that someone is sending adwords ppc traffic to my website. I see In my stats today I have had three referred links to an article on the site from:

http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?.... and all the rest.

Why would someone send google ads to an article on my site, has anyone ever heard of this before?
#adwords #send #site #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author NewYorkerRocks
    i hope that it's not a hacker that is doing this. Sometimes competitors can do this as well in order to hurt your site, which I find sad.
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    • Profile picture of the author TotalGaz
      I think it is happening as I am getting so many spammy trackbacks and links I see recently. I had just never heard of black hat seo using paid links to try hurt my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JasonB
    Hmmmm... That's pretty interesting...

    Can we see the article?

    Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author slc4us
    I think this is due to spam and someone is trying to disturb your site..
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    Well, paid links to bad neighborhood sites can get your adwords account banned, and also might act like a black mark for all the other sites (like yours) that are also linked to it. I am not sure that actually matters beyond getting the adwords account banned.. but maybe it does.. and maybe someone is doing an experiment at your expense to see if it does.

    I would assume that this is an attempt by a competitor to get your site flagged as a bad neighborhood (i.e. porn, gambling, illegal activity). The adwords is probably just a part of the campaign to get your site re-classified by google.

    A rather poor attempt, too, IMO. This gives you the opportunity to actually track the person behind this smear campaign with google's help. I suggest you inform Google about this, they may be able to actually do something.
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