Website Design Ireland, Website Development » AdWords Google tracking http://www.eire-webdesign.ie/blog Web Design and Development Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:53:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Tracking your Google AdWords for Click Fraud http://www.eire-webdesign.ie/blog/2007/10/15/tracking-your-google-adwords-for-click-fraud/ http://www.eire-webdesign.ie/blog/2007/10/15/tracking-your-google-adwords-for-click-fraud/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:10:19 +0000 Louie @ Eire Web Design http://www.eire-webdesign.ie/blog/2007/10/15/tracking-your-google-adwords-for-click-fraud/ Recently I started a new AdWords campaign, and because the bids where hight on certain keywords / phrase, I have made an adwords tracking system for the campaign. 
Just wanted to know what the hack is going on, especially when 1 click could cost you as much as 5.00euro  or more for a decent position (6-9).

Not even 12 hours later, had a look at the log file and here is what I found:
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ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)  | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 22:30:35
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 22:32:48
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 22:33:30
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 22:35:19
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 22:50:28
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 23:15:12
ad id | ad name | no_kw_name | referer Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0) | ip-78.16.2.*** | 2007-05-30 23:15:26
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I have taken few things out like referer, etc. and change the ip address but look at the time?

Some people really take competition to heart. Makes you laugh how low some could go.
Google detected click fraud on 4 of them and only charge me for 3 clicks, but still, how fair is that? 

I know there are programs out there that will track your ads, but some of the info they give might mean nothing to you at all, so i made this small package available for download.

Can be downloaded from here (Get AdWords Tracking Pack) for Free and please let us know how you get on with it.

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