Comments on: Yo! Domainers… Let me give you something to think about over the weekend ;-)

By: Soud

Soud — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:46:54 +0000

Good post, I never knew that stuff

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:34:57 +0000

ClickForensics is wrong. What they are counting is invalid clicks and not click fraud. The difference is that Google doesn’t charge for it and automatically discards it before they report the numbers to the publisher or advertiser.

ClickForensics has no way of knowing if Google discards it, so they count it as click fraud.

Yes scammers do exist but they make up a much smaller percentage, about 1% or less. If scammers made up 20% of the click fraud, then PPC wouldn’t exist anymore.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:47:27 +0000

Interesting post. The only thing I question is click fraudsters being able to “click away” more than once on an open or hacked wifi network? A Google ad would count the individual IP Address and not the amount of clicks.

The reason I know this is because my girlfriend owns a network of about 30 adult sites and she is constantly trying to vote up her sites on the Toplists and Topsites and whenever she votes only 1 vote counts per site, no matter how many times she clicks on the site. Also, I tried using a Godaddy coupon on 2 separate distinct name accounts, but from the same network and it would only validate 1 coupon no matter how I tried, as it’s tracking the IP Address and not the clicks, it seems that Google would have the same fraud protection.

I may not be fully understanding the gist of what you are saying or hackers know a way around it? Also, I know you can use Proxy servers and sometimes that works.

Anyways, great article.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:55:12 +0000

I had a guy trying to get me to sign up for parking accs to do this with. Also few years ago I had a fraudster who I had use my skenzo acc and he got my account closed with click fraud.