The Attack of the... Well I am not Sure (8)
Recently Have been running some solid days with a PPC campaign until yesterday when something strange happened. My camp started getting bombarded with calls from all different places and they were all under >1 sec. I for sure thought that it was a bot of some sort, maybe the ad networking checking my lps with some sort of script. Until it happen again today. If you look at the image below you will be able to see what I am talking about. Has anyone else every seen this? If yes, what did you do to combat it? Any tips or similiar experience would be apperciated.
checked with your network?
They aren't sure either... Added a buffer to the phone numbers but it still happened.
It seems to be one call center so possibly something happening on their end.
Trying to isolate the problem, so testing one piece at a time.
Originally Posted by Adamw
It's possible that these are robo-calls. They will scrape numbers from all over the web and generate calls. If they're not very sophisticated, they may not be able to bypass your keypresses.
I would definitely check with your network and see if they know what's up. I doubt it's the network, since they may not know where your landing page is our how to check it.
It is odd that there are several repeat callers.
-Mike
Call a few of the numbers back and see if something picks up? 
Check the numbers, at least in google.
I bet it's a phone flood from Skypeout, or worse (Simbox with voip for example):
I've run into this problem on several campaigns and haven't found a solution yet. If it is bots, what is their goal? To raise costs for competition maybe?
I cannot see for sure in this report, but were a lot of the calls coming in as repeats? That tells me it could be a issue with the call center or the number not working.
Also I noticed the only call that registered was from a landline...could there be something there?
- Taylor
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