Contact them right away. I believe there's a pretty tight time limit for disputes now (is it 30 or 60 days...I forget).

As long as you get the first message in there you stop the clock.

good luck.. Just call CC company and say it was stolen ;)

gotta love the ppc game.

ppc is like gambling .. just like gambling the casino always wins in the end :)

Fuck PPC. I go for the free traffic.

You cocksucking whiners, don't supervise your own campaigns and then blame the PPC engine for presenting you with a fat bill.

Content network is on by default. There is however, a new feature (within the last year) that allows you to bid differently on it.

Due to how Google's system automatically "optimizes" ad rotations it is possible to be getting traffic then totally have it drop off. Or vice versa, getting no traffic and then have it spike. I have a couple of clients who pay me to manage google traffic it is a total pain in the ass to try to explain this. Makes me look like an ass.

I don't mind the content network traffic but I definately don't pay the same amount for it. I suggest taking your max bid and cutting it in half. This pretty much guarantees you will not get caught paying top dollar for inferior traffic.

Sorry, but when you sign up for a campaign years ago when there was no such thing as Content Network and then they opt you in without telling you - you would be pissed too.

Whenever there is money being spent without you having to actually spend it yourself, it's a really good idea to keep track of what's happening - constantly. There's no excuse in trying to frame google for his fuckup. :error

Dont tell me about driving karts dude... I've got more trophies than I can count

Only one guy beat me in the IKF Texas State Championship

maybe you've heard his name.. AJ Foyt IV

I agree with you there, however... At the same time, I hired someone to manage my campaigns and made my budget higher. So here I thought my bill was higher because of someone optimizing my campaigns - instead it was my money being spent on their content network. It was CRAP traffic - at least in my case.

I know it's not an excuse, but I'm not going to take 100% blame. My bitch is about $400. Not $15k. (Yikes). :Oh crap I'm extremely anal when it comes to my money. :(


edit: 50 fraud clicks

my adwords campaigns haven't changed...


the 1 think i'd heavily question is this...the adwords content network are results shown on people who put adsense on their sites. now you are not allowed to put adsense on adult sites....so then it seems your keywords if truly being shown on the content network are being shown on non-adult sites...

wrong.

adult adwords content ads are shown on parked pages and on all kinds of shit sites.

The content network is YEARS old... the only thing Google changed is giving you the option not to advertise on it, no?

Content Network was added some months ago as a seperate option, before it was just all in one, was it not? The optimization for it has just changed as well or so it seems to me. So that is why there is not problem for them to just automatically enable content network for all old campaigns, it was activated before anyway...

The thing that concerns me way way more here is the few people that said they had a limit of for example $100 and google let it go higher than that. THAT is fucked up.

If you have a limit of $X and then complain google spent it all, you need to rethink your way of making money ;)

damn they had that shit turned on on mine too, this could explain a lot... fuckers

damn that fucking sucks :(

The only change I made to adjust the sudden flood of content network traffic, was to lower the amount I pay for each click. I'll still take all of it that they can send, but instead of paying 0.50c or higher for it, I'm only paying 0.05c for it at most.

indeed.....

dumbest post ever hah

I hope everyone believes this. I will definately more more money if there are less advertisers.

I think the same. When you think that everything's ok, then comes something bad...

They did the same thing to me. (on a non-adult site) i lost $5K with those fuckers... i was only using 2 keywords.

GODDAMN I HATE GOOGLE FOR ANYTHING!!!!

punch them in the fuck

Indeed... I was monitoring one campaign but did not really bother with a few very small ones that were active since 1.5-2 years... you don't think small steady campaigns will spike from 300 hits per month @ $0.15 to 3500 hits @ $0.97 overnight... especially not when there was no change made to TOS/Campaigns setup from that date.

It's like a bad surprise party.

Thats a smart choice anyways its always a great idea to monitor your expenses online.:pimp

let's see, your average CPC is $0.74 per click... for mainstream adult traffic!?!? what's the max CPC you've set, $5? $10? i've got a bridge to sell you

This story really sucks. I'll watch my campaign more closely!

I would say your the only one at fault.
I dont know how you could miss that even if you have "lots" of campains, do you not check ANY of them? I know if I saw that in one I would check the others.
But then if you would even scan pages befor clicking ok you would notice more things too.

I hope lots of you do stop using google :) Actually I encourage you to "stick it to them" by not using them. As soon as they dont see that 500 bucks a year I am sure accounting will flip out and they will do everything they can to get you back. :thumbsup


Same thing I was going to say.

Google is one of those companies that would spend more then what the suit is for just to win to prove their case.

Dutchie :winkwink:

What's wrong with Google's content network? I get an average of 6 page views from visitors from the content network. I also don't pay more than .10 per click so I don't worry too much about it.

I am still learning about about this. I have read and hear hundreds of stories like this about Google.
It just seems that they are trying to do too many things, and all of them are about 75%.
I am sorry that has happened to you, but everytime a company gets too big for their britches, they are a prime target to loose consumers respect, and market share. And most companies fall from grace because of it, and never recover.

It seems Google is making themselves a prime target for corporate espionage, and catastrphic disaster.
Just based on companies that have gone before them, and got kicked in the ass when they wern't looking.

I wouldn't be suprised to read an article in 3 years titled "The rise and fall of Google".

rule of thumb with google.......always watch it, monitor it daily...if not 1x ....2x a day...seriously.....it's the only way to go with that traffic unfortunately

Lisa M. from Google called me today and she said she will try to get me some type of credit. I will NOT accept a 10% credit. :mad:

I would rather chargeback and never use Adwords again. Fuckers.

hey btw are the parked domains a part of Googles search partners or content network?

I noticed that sometimes there's absolutely no relevancy between your keywords (even if you use [exact match] to ensure the most targetted traffic) and the parked domain, where your ads are shown...

Well I made $3,000 in adsense a few months back and they cancelled my account saying I was faking clicks. Never paid me. Fucking asscockmongers :( :)

Sad thing is it was all legit, lol. o_O

I thought google was out of adult
 

There are some obvious terms and phrases with NO adwords links anymore. Once they started "landing page" analysis last year I had to leave them.

Am waiting for the next "hot" search engine to take the public by storm.

That's way is better to use yahoo or msn for advertising.Google adwords is shit.