Many Clicks in 18th Position

[Greedo]

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Since the start of my dealings with overture certain keywords generate a good number of clicks per day even though I am in 18th position or so.

Surely this puts me on about page 3 of Yahoo results and so getting a click should be very, very, very rare from this position.

So I assume these are naughty clicks by 'non-customers' shall we say and I turn the keywords off.

In a logical world though, this should be reason enough not to pay for these clicks IMO. Don't fancy my chances of a refund though.

Anyone had similar experience?

[pricethat]

Not really, some third party sites might be running search engines that only return overture results full stop so 18th position may just be a normal web browser surfing what he sees is the second page of results.

You have to remember that as all listings in overture are added by people or are targetting content that they relate to most often the results will actually be self policed into being probably more reliable that even little G's results for the same terms sometimes.

Like all traffic you weigh it up on a keyword for keyword basis, decent tracking will tell you if the users coming to your site are real or not just from average behaviour. Ie not cliking on more than then link to come to your site etc etc.

Having said all that i wouldnt of thought the quality of traffic from someone clicking on the 18th page would be that great if they didnt like what was 17 places above it already. You do have to consider the spam sites though that might use overture results on their pages and then get indexed by google as well. So even in that case it might of been the first result the customer actually saw and because it is the 18th result its not like there is going to be too many sites that show the listing so it wont get so clobbered for duplicate content eh ;-)

[ksanjitha]

Install a stats package (If you already dont have one) and collect all the details about these suspicious clicks. In my experience they do refund money[ in some instances without even complaining, not in my case] , provided they you submit all the details[ IP Address,URL , Timestamp etc]. They do take sometime to get back. Persistence and Patience pays with Ov.



Regards

Anjitha

[hfactor]

"stats package", can you recommend one?

Thanks in advance...

[Demorphic]

Seems that Yahoo have been linked directly with click fraud:

Yahoo click fraud

This might also explain some of the traffic.