In what must be a world-first, click-fraud detection provider Visitlab has noted on its home page that it has opened up its source code under a GPL licence. What does this mean? I doubt that many will download the code and run it as a competing service, but it is certainly reassuring to its users […]
Read MoreLitmus Media, which runs a click fraud company called ValidClick is the subject of a Letter of Intent to be bought for $21M by the Think Partnership. Follow the link for details.
Read MoreIncrediBill makes an insightful post about the “hysteria” of click fraud and that it is a “dead horse”. Be that as it may, he challenges the PPCSEs to fix technical issues such as: 1. Advertiser’s site goes offline, so the clicks go nowhere. 2. A network issue leads to dead clicks 3. Accidental ad clicks […]
Read MoreThe blog writer at FrozenNorth.org has posed an interesting variant of click fraud, which he describes as an electronic tip jar. Before AdSense, some web sites used to encourage visitors to click the ads and visit the advertisers but as this contravenes the AdSense ToS, a publisher cannot openly encourage clicks. I don’t see such […]
Read MoreNow here is a classic click fraud symptom. This user at 172.24.6.31 used a proxy server at a Level3 site 65.57.245.11 in San Francisco to find four of our ads and click them within seconds. Update: The “cuplrit” was Google. Apparently the Adwords people use this IP address when checking your ads. 🙂 The official […]
Read MoreØystein 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.
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Ash Nallawalla
3 March 2006
Click Fraud, SEO