Am I accidentally costing John McCain money?

[Cleaner44]

Please help. I did a google search for McCain today and a friend said when I clicked on the Sponsored Link for his website, I was accidentally costing McCain money. He said this is a Google AdWord program and that McCain pays everytime it is clicked. Is this true?

 

[Jae0]

Um not that I know of.

 

[quantized]

Please help. I did a google search for McCain today and a friend said when I clicked on the Sponsored Link for his website, I was accidentally costing McCain money. He said this is a Google AdWord program and that McCain pays everytime it is clicked. Is this true?

good idea!

 

[constituent]

gosh o' willickers, i sure hope not.

and if you did, i'd sure hope you wouldn't post about it in a public forum, google
does look out for click fraud.

 

[yongrel]

At minimum, you're accidentally costing him 25 cents every time you click.

 

[Black Dude]

that's how the adwords work. pay-per-click.

anyone want in on a John McCain click-bomb?

 

[KevinR]

I've used adwords before, and yes he has to pay for valid clicks to his ads... Links for the clickbomb?

 

[Montpelerin]

Yes - it usually does cost his campaign when you click on a sponsored link.

However, it depends on which kind of link you click - some ads are paid per/1000 views, some are paid per click.

Ads shown as results of Google search queries ALWAYS are pay-per-click, which means it costs him each time.

 

[JoshLowry]

That is click fraud and it's similiar to theft.

Do not click on an ad unless it interests you.

I'm not trying to be a jerk about it, but we will have our adsense account revoked if it is encouraged here.

Thanks.

 

[Cleaner44]

gosh o' willickers, i sure hope not.

and if you did, i'd sure hope you wouldn't post about it in a public forum, google
does look out for click fraud.

I was not trying to do anything fraudulent, I just wanted to look at his web site and the Sponsored Link came up at the top so that is what I clicked on. Was that wrong?