I decided to try pay per click for my credit card site getusacreditcards. I put money in the Google account and put Statcounter on my pages. I let the campaign run for awhile and checked on it and compared the accurate Statcounter report with the Google report. Statcounter shows me what time someone clicked and what ISP address the visit came from. I have tested the Statcounter for months and it is completely accurate.
Anyway, I noticed a discrepancy right off the bat. According to the Statcounter a visitor had clicked my site, then visited 4 other pages of my site. I noticed that I was charged for each page load, not for just the click to my site. I contacted Google, but they denied this. With the Statcounter it was chrystal clear what had happened with no possible denial by Google being accurate. Google said I have a certain number of clicks I was charged for and it matched perfectly with the Statcounter.
Except for the fact that the data plain as day showed I was charged for each page load. I sent the absolutely indisputable data to Google who denied this and ignored this. I resumed the campaign and again checked, the results were the same
I was charged $10 for one visitor to my site for 5 different clicks for about $2 each. Google has totally denied I was charged anything but for 1 click per visitor, though I have the stats. They have given me nothing but a chart that shows the clicks with no supporting data.
If Google is ripping me off and is now ignoring the problems, they must be ripping everyone else off too. Get Statcounter and see for yourself. As you probably know Google settled some drop-in-the-bucket multi-million dollar class action lawsuit for click fraud, where they either had people click sites to run up the numbers or various fradulent activities. But a few 10's of millions is like us normal people paying a roll of nickles.
Anyway, they ripped me off, won't deal with this, and now it seems they are punishing me for complaining because all of the sudden I get no traffic at all!!
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