How you ppl exactly define a fraudal click. Google claims that it shows the ads only to areas specified by you, that is further tracked through ip addresses. Now if you are advertising on Google.co.uk and you have soecific region as uk this means that if some one accessing your ads from outside uk through google.co.uk should not be able to see them, its its not exactly this way. Do you too have encountered the same problem why the ads are being delivered to the incorrect ip's. because we are tracking ip addesses which are not from uk although out campain is only directed to uk.
Fraudulent click is when a Adsense user click his own ad to generate revenue. Google uses the geotargeting technology to track the region that the user is using its ip before showing the ads. So if someone from uk do a search in www.google.co.in it will show your ads to this user. In other hand you can not see your ads when you search google.co.uk. I never had the problem you described and I trust in Google Geotargeting thing. What exactly happened? Have you detected some non-uk ip exterminating your server logs or what?
i made my campain uk based, that is i specified in the region option that i am targeting uk still when i accessed those through google.co.uk they were displaying them while i was accessing through an indian ip. why was this happening
As I know this should not be happening. Check your campaign settings to be sure that it is really targeting uk only. If it is really targeting uk only contact support.
no, 1) A UK proxy would hide the original user IP and anshul123 would not detect any problem as the ip detected in server logs would be a uk proxy IP, not the user IP. 2) anshul123 reported that himself is seeing his ads from India for his Uk campaigns.
Click Fraud is alive and well. I don't think Google is cheating any of you on purpose...but they definately aren't putting the focus on it they need to. The last commercial version of Urchin before they bought them out and turned it into Google Analytics had a Click Fraud Tracker...do you see that in your Google Analytics now? hmmm... I feel like someone is watching me ;-) (-; Google? is that you? Ahhhhhhhh!
We had lots of problems with click fraud on our sites. We are using clickidentify.com right now. It identifies lot of people clicking on our sites. We caught one of our competitors yesterday.
I was getting clicks from the network of a very large competitor. G ignored my complaints (said they did not detect any fraud) but I called the competitor and threatened them with legal action and haven't had a problem with them since.