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I run a web site using Yahoo! Merchant solutions that does a good job tracking the page views in real-time. Today at 2:40 PM Pacific time, I had 125 page views according to Yahoo! However, Google Adwords campaign Manager is charging me for 440 clicks. Assuming all the page views came from Google, I am being shorted 315 paid clicks. That is fraud!

My question is Google able to manipulate its earnings through click fraud? Google’s stock price closed on 11-25-2006 at $505.00 per share that remains me of the Internet bubble in the late 90’s that crashed and burned.

Since Google’s main source of income is Adwords and the stock price of a company is set by the revenues, could Google allow the same fraud that can be seen in their Adsense model also take place in Adwords.


FYI about Adsense Fraud. The way it works is someone sets up a Web site with a keyword, say “carrot juice” and puts minimal text that says something about carrot juice, recipes, etc. They then surround the text content wi

2006-11-25 10:01:01 · 1 answers · asked by MP 2 in Business & Finance Corporations

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Probably, the code put on various pages of your sites yielded 125 page views, whereas the rest of your webpages (on which yahoo! code was not there) must have been diverted by google, and this may explain the 315 paid clicks extra.
Google 's 95% earning comes from advertisements like Adsense and Adwords (and ads for search, content.)
What you say might just be happen, but wait......
if someone external is doing click fraud, then 440 people should also come to your site. Check your webstats by getting a free service from http://statcounter.com .
After setting up the code on each page, after 2 weeks you should find where you went wrong. You can contact me always. my email ad - chirag155@yahoo.co.in

2006-11-27 23:00:58 · answer #1 · answered by Oye chak de phatte!! 5 · 0 0

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