Archive for September 2nd, 2005

Organic paid clicker


On the 29th, this user from rrcs-24-73-180- 122.se.biz.rr.com used an organic search result, then a paid click, then an internal click, followed by the usual pattern of paid-organic-paid-organic traversal.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Texan clicker


Looking at an earlier visitor, this person showed a similar tendency of clicking an ad, then an inner page.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Drilling down the AOL visitor



Drilling down the IP address of this visitor, you can see that he (they’re always “he”, right?) clicked an ad, then clicked an internal link; clicked the same ad, then clicked an internal link; clicked the ad, then three internal links.

This can also be seen in the click path in the second screen shot.

Popularity: 2% [?]

The AOL clicker


AOL is favoured by clickers because the IP address never stays the same. In one session, you could be given numerous IP addresses. This visitor searched for “arrow sheds” more than once.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Strange click pattern


The PPC Fraud Analysis view shows recent clicks and I am showing the weekly view. I look for entries that show more than one click. Let’s look at the second entry.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Victim of click fraud

I manage PPC accounts for myself and my employer and have done so for others in the past. I know that click fraud exists – or there are some very strange individuals out there who love to click the same PPC ads several times.

I have enabled three of my sites with the free (during beta) click fraud service by Visitlab. I am going to post examples here.

Popularity: 2% [?]