Comments on: The Google AdWords Class Action Lawsuit

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:20:44 +0000

I’ve been banned from Google adwords because my site is an affiliate site and directs visitor to click on another site. This is for woodworking plans.

I’ve agreed with them that I won’t advertise that site anymore but they’ve banned me not the site so now I can’t advertise any products on adwords so I go to Bing and Facebook instead. Would love to see a class action suit on this topic.

Any comments

By: Maxie

Maxie — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:36:50 +0000

Does anyone know if there has ever been a class action suit against Google Adwords for other reasons ?

For example, where you get charged for 2 clicks, even though there has only been one impression ?

Also, where you specify a two word keyword in broad match, but clicks are incurred when just one of these two words is searched for ?

Thank you.

By: Carla Holland-Strange

Carla Holland-Strange — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:25:33 +0000

google not only over charged me, but charged one of my new websites for clicks that did not happen, I watch my stats everyday and there was a site that wasnt getting but about 14 clicks aday and I was over my limit of $50 a day. That was my poosrus.com site……….. I had 8 sites at that time. I do not believe that thi suit will ever settle. nothing but ripoffs have I had doing business online.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:47:24 +0000

I’ve been using google adwords for two week now and I’m getting more visitors on my own. Thanks for the article, I do notice from time to time am getting a bit more for my cost per day.

By: kristinewirth

kristinewirth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:39:38 +0000

Matt – That’s very interesting. I have not had that happen to me but here’s to hoping

Bill – I agree that the lawsuit will probably results in hardly anything at all and as an individual advertiser, the dollar amount really ads up to almost nothing but to me, it’s the principal of the thing. I for one do work with daily budgets and a dollar here and a dollar there really ads up in the long haul. It will be interesting to see what comes of this…if anything. It seems as though the topic arises every so often, then dies down only to resurface again a few months later.

By: Bill Hazelton

Bill Hazelton — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:15:01 +0000

I’ve been a part of 2 class action lawsuits against Google as an Adwords advertiser. The first one resulted in zilch. This one will more than likely result in the same thing…zilch.

As a performance advertiser myself, daily budgets are meaningless. For most Adwords customer, I just don’t see how meaningful this lawsuit can really be for them.

By: Matt Wolfe

Matt Wolfe — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:08:49 +0000

It’s weird because this has happened to me several times. I have put a daily budget of $25 and at the end of the day, I had spent $26.34 or something like that. The thing is, Google only ended up billing me for the $25. When I saw that, I was very happy because I realized that Google basically gave me an extra $1.34 in advertising. With some of my keywords, that could be an extra 4 or 5 clicks. Google will do the right thing….