3 ms·
I also had a small Google ad spend ($350 over 3 weeks), that I setup to run exclusively in the USA, and had the same experience where IP addresses recorded by h
by ishjoh 6y ago
I also had a small Google ad spend ($350 over 3 weeks), that I setup to run exclusively in the USA, and had the same experience where IP addresses recorded by hotjar were all from India, all new signups from the ad spend were '.gmail' email addresses and although I had about 100 signups not a single one entered a credit card.
- Aldipower 6y agoAlmost the same here. Had an Google Ads budget of $200 a month. All I got from this were dubious sign ups, which all together never looked around in the application and never came back. As my ROI turned to be negative, I turned off ads completely. My organic sign-ups even increased since that. And those people are staying!
- ryanSrich 6y agoYeah, same here. We have done some spam mitigation, but we still get so many bogus sign ups and form submissions. In this instance, who is committing the fraud? Is it Google to ensure you spend your entire budget? I don’t see anyone else benefiting from these bots and click farms. We’re so small and new that it can’t be a competitor.
- nickphx 6y agoSome "bots" perform searches and click on ads to build a "user profile" for the browser.
- SheinhardtWigCo 6y ago...so that they can bypass Google’s captcha.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- hermitcrab 6y agoIIRC sometimes bots will click on random ads to try to obscure the nefarious other things they are doing. You are just collateral.
- austinpena 6y agoPhysical location only or location of interest included?