Google Adwords is Prone to Fraud and Abuse ? Buyer Beware!
I was a former customer of Google Adwords and I will never use them again. The whole system is prone to fraud and abuse at the hands of people out to steal money from advertisers. If you want to literally get robbed as a small business owner ? use Google Adwords.
How does Google Adwords work? Let?s say you have a web site and are finding it unable to trick the web search engines into placing your into the number one spot, you can pay the search engine based on a bidding process to list you in a special section on the front page of a particular key word search. Each time someone clicks on it, you pay the amount that you have bidded to get into the top spot. In my case I bid approximately $1 per click, it didn?t get me on the top of the sponsored list, but got me in about the 2nd or 3rd position.
Sounds fine right? You will naturally gain some business and hopefully will come away with a profit. Not so fast. Google is not on the business owner?s side in this service. Google also offers something called Adsense. Adsense is a program that allows content web site owners and blogs make money by having a little advertising box on their web site and when their visitors click on those ads, they will make a certain amount from each click.
So, place your ad in google and then google will place your ad in their search engine as well as all these content web sites and blogs that have Adsense ads on them. Whenever anyone clicks on these Ads at Google OR the content web sites and blogs the business owner is charged for it.
This opens the system up to total abuse. These bloggers and others have setup intricate systems from clicking on each others ads to generate revenue for each other. Each of those clicks costs ME $1. You can go around to message boards and see these scams at various ?Make money from home? web sites. Some of these parasites are making close to $2,000 a month.
There is absolutely no way Google can stop this fraud despite their legal canned response. They can?t. They can only identify mass fraud and clickthroughs, they cannot stop these small time operations when they engage in a keyword to attack and rob the advertiser from.
Plus, it has already been proven that people are able to totally defeat Google?s fraud protection, Google is currently suing someone for it now. So they can?t protect business owners from fraud. It?s impossible.
If you use Google Adwords, you will have to put up with the fact that up to 30% of the clicks you get will either be from your competitors trying to knock you off or through these parasites who have Adsense accounts and are robbing you through click schemes. There is nothing that can be done about it either and there is no way Google can prevent it. It?s basically built into the system.
The bad part here is that Google doesn?t offer the webmaster using Adwords a 30% discount, they pass on the fraud costs to the web site owner. Trust me I know, according to Google, not a single click on my ad was fraudulent. I have had over 20,000 clicks on my ad. Sounds remarkable huh? Google is not offering me a discount from the $20,000+ I have spent with them and now I want to sue them.
So if any webmaster out there feels like they have been abused by Google Adwords or there are any attorneys willing to take this case, I would like to hear from you. If you have evidence of Google?s incompetence in fighting fraud I would also like to hear from you. This scam is costing leigitimate web site owners thousands and thousands of dollars.
If you want to get together to fight back against Google, please email me at googlefraud@aol.com or visit the Google Adwords fraud blog at http://googleadwords.blogeasy.com. Wanna know what is funny, my blog service uses google adwords and there is a button there that says, ?Make Money? and it links to how you can get an Adsense account on your blog. Think there it is possible that abuse can occur here? According to Google?no.
Maybe I will open an Adsense account, it sure is easier making money by stealing it rather than by opening a store and carrying inventory.
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