Adwords abuse

[rich1231]

Anyone here know much about fighting adwords abuse from competitors?

[JamieBeeston]

rich1231 said:

Anyone here know much about fighting adwords abuse from competitors?

I thought google had clamped down on this massively after the class action against them..

assume you've tried contacting their abuse dept?

[Marcellus]

rich - how can you tell (says he who sometimes has strange CTRs)

[playerone]

Abuse as in dodgy clicks or brand name bidding?

[rich1231]

Marcellus said:

rich - how can you tell (says he who sometimes has strange CTRs)

same group of about 10 ips every few hours clicking through.

[Marcellus]

ah I've not found out how to see the IP of "clickers"....new to Adwords you see!

[Minnsy]

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[Aranell]

If it's that obvious, Google should automatically credit you next time they produce an 'invoice'.

It is probably worth dropping them an email with all your logs explaining what you can see too, just to make sure.

You can also exclude the IPs (this doesn't work 100% though) - go into your Adwords account, click on 'tools' and then go to 'IP exclusion'. You will have to block the IPs for every campaign you have which can be a bit time-consuming and irritating. If it's a block of IPs, you can use the * to block all the range, ie 192.168.0.*