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There are various kinds of AdWords abuse, each with different reporting actions.

Reporting AdWords Click-Fraud
If you feel that you are the victim of click fraud, document as much information as you can about the suspected abuse. Gather and keep log files, and be ready to identify within them where suspected fraudulent clicks occur. Create and save AdWords reports that cover the period of the suspected click fraud, and create a daily report to show day-to-day variations or consistency of the clicks. Once armed with this data, you’re ready to contact Google.

Trademark Abuse
If an advertiser is misusing your trademark in AdWords ads, Google might stop running the offending ads. Read the AdWords Trademark Complaint Procedure for more information.

Violating AdWords Editorial Guidelines
If you find an advertiser is abusing the Google AdWords Editorial Guidelines, you can send a message via the help center support request form.

Redirection limit refers to a browser setting that limits the number of simultaneous HTTP connections can be open for a given website request. This setting enables the browser to download several files from a web server simultaneously while putting a reasonable upper limit on such connections. Simultaneous connections can sometimes improve download speed, but they can also cause problems if malicious web authors want to open multiple pop-ups when you visit their site (for example).

Redirection limit errors can occur unintentionally when a web page or pages inadertently create a loop. For instance, if Page A redirects to itself, or to Page B which redirects back to Page A, then your web browser will start building connections at every turn of the loop until the limit is exceeded.

Viewing/Changing Your Redirection Limit in Firefox
If you are using Firefox, you can view (and change) your redirection limit by typing “about:config” into the address bar and looking for “network.http.redirection-limit”. You can find more information here.

Viewing/Changing Your Redirection Limit in Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer uses a different parameter to accomplish the same thing, calling it WinInet. You can find more information here.

Google’s AdSense program policies can be found here. Details for reporting AdSense abuse can be found here.