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Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday November 30, 2019 @06:11AM (#21669485)
I think it's more like 99%.

When I was running advertising for a small business we put vouchers in to track advertising. The only people who brought in vouchers were people who were already customers who said they were already coming. So, we spent money to reduce our revenue. (I do the same, hunt for vouchers after making a buying/visiting decision.)

I was on national TV and national radio (UK) - none of that blipped our visitors/revenue.

Only thing that ever definitely worked was handing out flyers and chatting to people in the street (and being top of Google SERPs).

Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by cookie_monsta on Saturday November 30, 2019 @04:18PM (#21672191)
Funny you should mention vouchers - it reminded me of the article discussed here[1], which likened advertising with Google to handing out coupons to people who are already in your store

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873

Re:Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while lo... by lordnacho on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:17AM (#21669644)
What were you selling?