Øystein Halseth Lund has a great site that features click fraud – how people commit it and what the SEs are doing about it. Well worth a read!
Read MoreIn this post and in a followup, John Cunningham writes about his experiences with Kanoodle.
Read MoreThis Bellsouth user in Chattanooga, TN, just loves to click – 11 times, no less. He didn’t buy any calendars after all that. Google only charged me one click, which could have been for someone else.
Read MoreCMS Products has done it again. The ABSmini is an external USB 2.0 backup drive that fits in a shirt pocket or the palm of one’s hand. The review unit has a storage capacity of 40 GB, although 20 GB and 60 GB units are also available. A small vinyl tote bag protects it from […]
Read MoreI am seeing such click behaviour daily and cannot make up my mind whether this is fraud or a novice web user. Unless I were to see someone clicking an ad several times to return to an advertiser’s site, I won’t be able to ask them why they do that.
Read MoreMy fellow Webmasterworld member JenStar runs the best known AdSense site that I know of. Here is an inspirational interview with the man who has over 80 blogs and makes over $1M a year from AdSense. He has 9 staff and over 100 blog writers…
Read MoreThis article by Joseph Tierney is different from the usual rehash of how click fraud is perpetrated. Many sites have reprinted this article and it is worth reading to see a fresh dissection of the typical AdSense ad and how it is easy for the knowledgeable culprits to get past Google’s click fraud detection service.
Read More(Extract) TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) – A federal appeals court says a class-action lawsuit alleging “click fraud” by Google Inc. and other Internet companies should be heard in state court rather than in a federal courtroom. I don’t know much about the US legal system, but wouldn’t it make life easier for all concerned if there […]
Read MoreOur research indicates that as much as 30% of paid search traffic may be fraudulent. This site requires free registration to view the material. One of their experiments was to place an ad on a contrived phrase (click fraud spelt backwards) and they clicked the AdWord repeatedly. Their findings agree with mine that clicking one […]
Read MoreI also track my sites with VeriClix, a free service. Someone’s clock is out of sync, because the visit from the Comcast subscriber shows only once at Vericlix, but a few minutes out, so I cannot say which of the four clicks it is.
Read MoreI hate to admit it, but you have to give credit where it is due. I have been following just one keyword but it may apply to others. Google has only charged me for one click in the past 7 days when the suspicious clicks for that keyword are at least 10 to 15. I […]
Read MoreWhat is it with Arrow Sheds? They’re probably OK, if you are into sheds, but these “arrow shed” searchers just like to click my ads but they don’t buy anything. This Comcast visitor from Nashua, NH is a good example of the 2-3 daily clickers who visit my site every day. At least he made […]
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Ash Nallawalla
10 October 2005
Click Fraud, SEO