Muse Creation: AdWords Fraud!

[Vacman]

Hey everyone,

I'm creating my muse.

I've got the website up and an ad campaign running with Google AdWords right now.

I'm attempting to track how many "sales" I make in order to determine if there is indeed a market for my product.

Anyhow, on my site, you can click on a button to go to an order page, and then enter in all your information and then when you click order, you get an error page.

Right now, I have Google tracking those who have come in off of my AdWords campaign and if they hit my "error" page then it's counting as a sale.

(Because this theoretically means that they put in all their billing info and hit the order button.)

Google shows that I've made one sale already in less than 24 hours.

That's pretty good considering that I haven’t optimized any of my marketing.

Here's my question:

Could this "sale" or "conversion" be a bot that just simply went through all the pages of my site and didn't really order, or plan on ordering anything?

Does this ever happen? Basically, where a computer program would click on your ad on Google and then go to every page you have and then just leave?

If so this could skew my sales results and I really want accurate info.

Part of the reason why I ask is because in my tracking information through bluehost it shows that the person who hit my "error page" went through the site and hit my pages in this sequence:

Page Time

Main page: 10:55:24
Order page: 10:55:35
Error page: 10:55:38

So, that's kind of strange.

I'm not sure about how accurate the time logs are either.

Should I be concerned that this was NOT a sale?

Or am I being overly cautious?

Thanks for your help!

[Vacman]

Just letting you folks know.

I don't know how this ended up being a duplicate post...

I don't remember posting twice :)

I apologize for the confusion! :)

[Marcie]

I'm not positive, but since you put adwords on there I am sure that their bot went through to log the content of your pages. Maybe that's what it was :/