Adwords warfare?

lendaddy · 12-20-2007, 05:12 AM

Knowing that your competitors have daily spending limits, is it not possible to create a bot that "clicks" them out of budget every morning thus giving you top placement at lower costs?

legion · 12-20-2007, 05:19 AM

Isn't this exactly how the game is played?

And do you think that Google would discourage ill-gotten revenue? (Does eBay?

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cstreit · cstreit's Garage

Depends on how they qualify clicks. You pay by the individual IP address so a person (or bot server) clicking twice wouldn't register as a second click and charge them.

However as I proved with the "Vote for Jesse" thread, that can be circumvented by use of a public and free anonymizer that randomizes the returned IP upon the request.

Interesting thoughts len..

Not sure why anyone would pay for this service. A REALLY GOOD conversion rate for click-thru's to sales is less than 1% Even at an industry leading rate (avg is more like .01-.001%) lets say you pay $1 per click thru, that would mean you're paying over $100 to get a sale from each customer. Realistically you'd be paying $1000 and up. Some people are paying $5 and $6 per click-thru. I can't see how this makes economic sense.

lendaddy · 12-20-2007, 06:43 AM

We just started but in our case we are a service. If we get a customer though this then it could easily be a six figure annual deal that could last for years.

sammyg2 · 12-20-2007, 07:25 AM

Sounds kinda sleezy to me.
Doesn't matter if they do it too. I'd focus more on doing good business.

lendaddy · 12-20-2007, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Sounds kinda sleezy to me.
Doesn't matter if they do it too. I'd focus more on doing good business.

Sammy, I'm not promoting it or considering it. I noticed that our budget was gone by 9:00 A:M this morning and this popped into my head as a possible reason why.