Click Fraud Blog

Click fraud linked to other types for fraud.

It should be no great surprise – but it is still amazing to hear about the types of associated fraud: Phishing Sites Sending Spam Pornography (of the most base kind) Trojans Bots (unsavoury kind) Malware Other Scams Sometimes, these are carried out at the internet service provider (ISP) level. The authorities would love to catch some of these ...

Clicking Content Ads in Exchange for A Quality Post

Here is an ethical dilemma in the click fraud arena, please leave your point of view in the comment field below. Joe Bloggs is a tech savvy individual who reads many online blogs. Whilst searching for a technical answer, he is directed to a particular site via ...

Click Fraud and The Presedential Race

I am seeing a lot of chatter on the net about how click fraud may be used as a tool in the upcoming presedential campaign. Internet marketing techniques will play a big part in the upcoming campaign, and the ability to deplete a candidate's ad budget is being seen as a ...

Survey Results In

I recently ran a survey on this site to see what type of articles you would like me to write. The overwhelming result was that you would like to read how-to articles. With this in mind I have decided to create a lot more detailed articles on protecting your advertising spend ...

Entrecard Bans ClickBots/DropBots

A number of months ago, I wrote an article about gaming Entrecard and asked if it was a type of click fraud. The crux of this post was that people were creating click bots or drop bots to drop a virtual business card on other peoples blogs in exchange for credits, ...

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5 Habits To Avoid Click Fraud

I would like to show you five good pay per click campaign habits you should adopt to avoid click fraud. 1. Keep an eye on the competition Do you know who else is competing on your keywords? These are the potential sources of competitor click fraud. Monitor your top ten ...

Activism and Click Fraud

A number of months ago I wrote a speculative article on how click fraud could be used as a tool of activists. The article Low Quality Clicks as a Means of Passive Demonstration painted a fictional picture on how the bottom line of an organisation can be effected by attacks on ...

Search Phrase Exposé

I am often amazed by the search phrases which bring visitors to my site, it also helps to confirm to me that people are searching for click fraud and low quality click resources so they can commit nefarious acts. This list will be updated as new entries appear. how to setup rxbot ...

Case Study - Sometimes It Ain’t Click Fraud

I was recently working with a client based in the US who had seen a masive increase in click through and no corresponsing increase in conversion. He contacted me with a view to investigate possible click fraud. As a starting point I obtained an invalid click fraud report (see below). ...