Google has just added a nifty tool to its Adwords tools portfolio, the ability to block IPs from seeing (and clicking) your ads. In your Adwords tools section you will see a link for ‘IP Exclusion’ which will allow you to put in IP addresses that you want to block from seeing your ads. [...]
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Adwords Click Fraud Fighting Tool - IP Exclusion
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Google Releases Clickbot Clickfraud Study
According to Google
Clickbot.A is the name of a botnet that Google’s Click Quality and Security Teams investigated last year. Using our findings, we published “The Anatomy of Clickbot.A” - a detailed case study on botnet-based click fraud for the benefit of the technical research community.
Clickbot.A is an example of a botnet operator attempting a click [...] -
Google to Offer more Click Fraud protection
CNET.com is reporting that next month Google will allow advertisers to block specific IPs.
Beginning next month, Google plans to give advertisers the ability to prevent their pay-per-click ads from being shown to competitors suspected of repeatedly clicking on the ads to drive up their cost.
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Is Click Fraud Really Less Than 2%?
On Monday Andy Beal had a good piece about his talks with a Googler on the topic of click fraud and how they say the actual click fraud that an advertiser sees is %1 or lower.
Now in theory this is great but is it really an accurate statement? I don’t think so and here [...]
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BusinessWeek: The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case
BusinessWeek.com has a nice follow up to the forgotten click-fraud case that pitted Google versus a click-fraud extortionist.
To make a long story short, back in 2004, a guy named Michael Anthony Bradley rolled up to Google, showcased his click-fraud program dubbed “Google Clique.” Showing off his program that could generate millions of false clicks [...] -
Why You Should Use 2nd Tier Search Engine PPC
A post over on SearchEngineJournal.com today was talking about his experience with click fraud and the second tier engines, in this case Miva. Second tier engines have a reputation of poor low converting traffic that is riddled by click fraud and this case is no different. SEJ noticed referrer sources coming from notorious [...]
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Google Finally Pays Up
Reports are going around that people are finally receiving their checks from the click fraud settlement a few months back. There is a webmasterworld thread about it here but for the lazy folks, here is what people are saying
” Got my $6.45 wohhooo! headed to McDonalds for a Big Mac on google. “
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Google Adds Invalid Click Reports but What For?
Google annouced yesterday via Adwords Blog, that there is a “new tool” in your account that will show you in real time the number of ivalid clicks that affect your account. I use the term “tool” loosely even though industry experts around the web have dubbed it “Google’s Click Fraud tool.”
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Click Fraud on the Rise
Greg Sterling points out this press release by Click Forensics that documents the rise of click fraud. According to Click Forensics
Google and Yahoo are better at weeding out click fraud than smaller Web sites, but Click Forensics still concluded both companies are being hard hit. About 12.8 percent of the clicks on ads served [...]
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