Comments on: Yahoo Search Marketing Click Fraud? Yahoo issues Pepperjam Client $10K as “Courtesy” http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy Search Engine & Affiliate Marketing Blog Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:34:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Bid 4 Insurance http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-163107 Bid 4 Insurance Mon, 18 May 2009 15:32:10 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-163107 Hi, I am now more worried as I do promote the website www.Bid4Insurance.com from yahoo search marketing and may be using different keywords for which I may not caught in this kind of hefty-nifty situation. --Thanks Hi,

I am now more worried as I do promote the website http://www.Bid4Insurance.com from yahoo search marketing and may be using different keywords for which I may not caught in this kind of hefty-nifty situation. –Thanks

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]]> By: AdWords Management http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-146324 AdWords Management Tue, 27 May 2008 16:22:44 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-146324 While I haven't yet encountered this problem with Yahoo or Google (or perhaps I just haven't effectively been able to identify it...), it DID happen to me with an Australian PPC service (Sensis). While the dollar amounts were nowhere near as high as yours, it was almost an exact duplicate of your situation, including their staff saying there was nothing wrong, yaha yada yada. I had to get real hard nosed with them, but in the end they did credit the amount in question, but (of course) didn't admit there was any click fraud occuring... :-) Guess I had better take a MUCH closer look at my big Google clients now... Eran Malloch Perth, Western Australia While I haven’t yet encountered this problem with Yahoo or Google (or perhaps I just haven’t effectively been able to identify it…), it DID happen to me with an Australian PPC service (Sensis).

While the dollar amounts were nowhere near as high as yours, it was almost an exact duplicate of your situation, including their staff saying there was nothing wrong, yaha yada yada.

I had to get real hard nosed with them, but in the end they did credit the amount in question, but (of course) didn’t admit there was any click fraud occuring… :-)

Guess I had better take a MUCH closer look at my big Google clients now…

Eran Malloch
Perth, Western Australia

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]]> By: Why Not Tracking Your Campaigns can Cost you Money! : CPA AFFILIATES http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-14428 Why Not Tracking Your Campaigns can Cost you Money! : CPA AFFILIATES Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:21:33 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-14428 [...] As you can see they don’t come out and say we agree with you that you received foreign traffic, they did offer me a nice credit. With that said I was making a profit on the campaign even with this amount of foreign traffic being sent. So the credit is just icing on the cake, but this is something that is deserved by me as I am paying for US traffic not foreign traffic. This is just one example of why you need to track your campaigns by a third party software that tracks IP addresses etc. to monitor it for foreign traffic or even click fraud that you are billed for.  One other instance you can read about is from PepperJam Search and their $10,000 “Goodwill Credit” . var bz_url='http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cpa-affiliates.com%2Fwhy-not-tracking-your-campaigns-can-cost-you-money%2F'; var bz_num_comments=0; var bz_comment_date='';           [...] [...] As you can see they don’t come out and say we agree with you that you received foreign traffic, they did offer me a nice credit. With that said I was making a profit on the campaign even with this amount of foreign traffic being sent. So the credit is just icing on the cake, but this is something that is deserved by me as I am paying for US traffic not foreign traffic. This is just one example of why you need to track your campaigns by a third party software that tracks IP addresses etc. to monitor it for foreign traffic or even click fraud that you are billed for.  One other instance you can read about is from PepperJam Search and their $10,000 “Goodwill Credit” . var bz_url=’http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cpa-affiliates.com%2Fwhy-not-tracking-your-campaigns-can-cost-you-money%2F’; var bz_num_comments=0; var bz_comment_date=”;           [...]

]]> By: Prioritize Profitable Projects - TFS Day 4 - ShoeMoney™ http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-7967 Prioritize Profitable Projects - TFS Day 4 - ShoeMoney™ Thu, 24 May 2007 20:22:52 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-7967 [...] Clickshield - I have been offering services to very few select people to detect clickfraud. I registered clickshield.com many years ago and have been using that as my company name for this product. One of our initial tests was with pepperjamsearch and they got back over 10,000 the first month we tested it from Yahoo alone. While a lot of people have requested our services unfortunatly at this time we have to be very selective and make it worth our time. Now I see a company called ABCsearch has launched there own click fraud detecton product called clickshied… pretty interesting! [...] [...] Clickshield – I have been offering services to very few select people to detect clickfraud. I registered clickshield.com many years ago and have been using that as my company name for this product. One of our initial tests was with pepperjamsearch and they got back over 10,000 the first month we tested it from Yahoo alone. While a lot of people have requested our services unfortunatly at this time we have to be very selective and make it worth our time. Now I see a company called ABCsearch has launched there own click fraud detecton product called clickshied… pretty interesting! [...]

]]> By: showmoney, PPC Blogs/Forums, SEO Class, Lost, and more - ShoeMoney™ http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-6781 showmoney, PPC Blogs/Forums, SEO Class, Lost, and more - ShoeMoney™ Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:15:31 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-6781 [...] Well here is my opinion as alluded to earlier. Blogs are good but a lot of times people can be wishywashy because of there relationship with companies. I personally like companies that tell the good and the bad. Pepperjams blog for instance points out stuff like Yahoo Search Marketing giving them a refund of 10,000$ for invalid clicks or how AdBrite sends them shitty traffic. Now if I would have saw this on a forum I would have probably not even given it a second look but since its on the company blog of the worlds largest Search Engine Marketing agency and recently named to the INC 500 Top Fastest Growing Companies… its not like they are going to lie. Shoe I saw last week your friend daveN announced he is going to have Seo Training conferences around the world. What is your thought on that? [...] [...] Well here is my opinion as alluded to earlier. Blogs are good but a lot of times people can be wishywashy because of there relationship with companies. I personally like companies that tell the good and the bad. Pepperjams blog for instance points out stuff like Yahoo Search Marketing giving them a refund of 10,000$ for invalid clicks or how AdBrite sends them shitty traffic. Now if I would have saw this on a forum I would have probably not even given it a second look but since its on the company blog of the worlds largest Search Engine Marketing agency and recently named to the INC 500 Top Fastest Growing Companies… its not like they are going to lie. Shoe I saw last week your friend daveN announced he is going to have Seo Training conferences around the world. What is your thought on that? [...]

]]> By: pepperjamBlog » Blog Archive » Beware of Poor Quality International Traffic from Adbrite http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-6721 pepperjamBlog » Blog Archive » Beware of Poor Quality International Traffic from Adbrite Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:47:55 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-6721 [...] As you could imagine if you read my previous post on getting a $10K courtesy credit from Yahoo for “click fraud,” I sent a pretty scathing e-mail back to Dana, which included a request for a credit based on the trashy traffic they sent us. In fairness to Dana and Adbrite, here is the response she sent me to the second e-mail: [...] [...] As you could imagine if you read my previous post on getting a $10K courtesy credit from Yahoo for “click fraud,” I sent a pretty scathing e-mail back to Dana, which included a request for a credit based on the trashy traffic they sent us. In fairness to Dana and Adbrite, here is the response she sent me to the second e-mail: [...]

]]> By: Search Marketing Forums » SEMBasics http://www.pepperjam.com/blog/2006/12/13/yahoo-click-fraud-yahoo-issue-pepperjam-client-10k-as-courtesy/comment-page-1#comment-4815 Search Marketing Forums » SEMBasics Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:29:11 +0000 http://pepperjamblog.com/?p=78#comment-4815 [...] While Google has it’s head firmly in in the sand denying click fraud exists Yahoo is playing a semantics game refunding Pepperjam $10,000 for “Goodwill” not click fraud. [...] [...] While Google has it’s head firmly in in the sand denying click fraud exists Yahoo is playing a semantics game refunding Pepperjam $10,000 for “Goodwill” not click fraud. [...]

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