More New PPC Fraud

[BowFromMI]

Here's something new for all you PPCers to worry about.
I've never seen it discussed before, just wonder if anybody else has dealt with it.

I've been tracking traffic on GoClick, but it is probably the same with any of the secondary PPC's who display their results on thousands of little websites all over the internet.

I am finding my ads all over the place that show up for keywords I didn't (and wouldn't) bid on. Just take my GoClick ad and keyword "phentermine" as an example.

I'm finding it showing up and getting clicked on when people search for:
"phentermine use Paypal" - ie here:
http://real-search.net/search.php?aid=31330&q=phentermine+use+Paypal
of course, I don't except Paypal, so would never want to show up in this search...

"rx phentermine without prescription COD" - ie here:
http://direct.zenno.info/search.php?qq=rx+phentermine+without+prescription+ COD
of course, I don't ship COD so would never want to show up here

(PS If you bid on "phentermine" at GoClick, you'll probably see your site here to)

I'm seeing searches for "phentermine worldwice" (typo, but I don't ship worldwide), "phentermine hycrococone" (don't even know what that would be), "HGH pills" (links to my "Phentermine Diet Pills" keyword, and is nothing that I sell), etc, etc, etc.

One of the disturbing things is, while all of these keywords are probably a $0.05 click at GoGlick, all of these ads link to my "phentermine" bid, which might cost me anywhere from $040 to $2.00... And I had my ad clicked on on all these searches and many, many more with similarly stupid searches. And I'm paying my Phentermine bid on every click.

So what it means in reality is that I'm bidding $1.00, or whatever my "phentermine" bid is, on stupid keywords like "phentermine use Paypal", "rx phentermine without prescription COD", "phentermine worldwice", etc that I wouldn't want anything to do with. And I'm not using any form of broad search or subject matching search either. Strictly keyword matching only.

Anybody else ever notice this or deal with this? Of course, getting the PPC's to admit it's a problem or doing anything about it is impossible...

(I guess if you've ever wondered why you may get 100 clicks on "phentermine", but only a couple on "buy phentermine", this is probably part of the answer...)

Steve

[Archangel]

Hey Steve,

I've had the same problem doing PPC on Enhance. However, I call and told them all the things I was totally unconfortable with, and they slowly but steady were able to remove them. I was targeting US only, but I go clicks from Peru, Brasil, Venezuela, and Korea! I was also getting the stupid kewords you mentioned for Carisoprodol, Ambien and others. I think the best you can do is not even asking the question. You should know it is that way, and you need to negotiate with them in order to make some decent profit out of your campaigns. After investing about 2 hours on the phone, for probably 10 different calls, they finally understood they couldn't trick me, and provided lower volume, but higher quality traffic.

[BowFromMI]

Ohhhh, don't even mention Enhanced to me....
They are the worst I've ever come across...
I even changed my Favorites bookmark on them from "Enhanced Interactive - Welcome" to "Enhanced Interactive Sucks!" to remind myself never to go there again...

[RX69]

Go Click is not much better, unless you like spending $ for no reason.

[pharmacycenter.org]

What PPC do You recomend ?

[affiliate4life]

The reason you are seeing your keywords listed for various keywords you have not bidded on is because there are usually 3 different ways you can bid on keywords ie.. phrase, broad, or basic.

Basic - just shows the single keyword you've bid on

Phrase - if you bid on "phentermine online" and someone types in "phentermine online pharmacy" your keyword will show

Broad - Shows everything related to the keyword you've bid on

Sorry I am not able to explain it more thoroughly but you get the idea. There is information out there, just Google it.

[HeadCracker]

You guys deserve what you get. Do you really want Uncle Sam looking at you ? Have you not read anything on this forum ?

Is it really worth the risk ? and if you are of the "off shore" flavor, marketing to US customers, keep it up, soon the FEDS will just pop in a restriction with carries to refuse delivery or some other method. Then we will be all out of business.


STOP SELLING CONTROLLED !!

At the very least, DONT DISCUSS IT HERE !!

[BowFromMI]

The reason you are seeing your keywords listed for various keywords you have not bidded on is because there are usually 3 different ways you can bid on keywords ie.. phrase, broad, or basic.

Basic - just shows the single keyword you've bid on


That's not true. If you read my post, you'd see I stated I wasn't using any broad or phrase matching, strictly basic keyword only.