Adsense Click Fraud

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If you’re using AdWords or AdSense you must have heard about an emerging practice in the underworld of computing called “click fraud”. But what exactly is click fraud and how is it accomplished?

Well AdSense uses a payment mechanism that awards a certain amount of money to a publisher (someone who holds an AdSense banner on their page) every time a person clicks on the said banner. So click fraud is the attempt to have people clicking the ads just so that they can earn a greater income.

There are people setting up sites for the sole purpose of fraudulently generating revenue through Google’s AdSense program. These users achieve an incredible number of clicks through many methods, some complex and sophisticated and some rudimentary and simple.

One of the most complex is through the use of so called “hitbots”. These are automated programs who emulate clicking the links in AdSense banners (there are some that actually click the banners as well).

Google’s AdSense protection scheme is by no means perfect and nearly anyone can find the details of surmounting the protection mechanism, ironically just by doing a Google search.

Another, more rudimentary method is to hire a lot of people in a poor country to click the links on your site. This means these people will actually sit all day and just click links so you can earn a fortune. They come from very poor countries like India, and they’re prepared to do so for just $0.50 an hour.

Of course, there’s a problem with this mechanism. Once Google receives a large number of clicks from a single address, the address and the site that had the AdSense banner will be banned, and the illicit behavior might even get the fraudster sued.

To prevent this from happening, many people use a large number of proxy servers for the purpose of clicking. These are basically trojans, located on computers throughout the world (though mostly in the US). What’s even more daunting is that these clicks will appear to originate from an actual computer so such scams are really hard to detect.

And don’t think this happens only in isolated instances. There is a great deal of illegal activity in this domain.

In fact there’s so much that if search engine companies don’t increase their security with such programs as AdSense, such criminal behavior could become more become even more damaging.

Google has a very strict policy regarding click fraud, and it has sued those employing such techniques in the past. But while the search engine giant tries its best to minimize the risk of click fraud there’s certainly room for a lot of improvement.

It is estimated that more then 20% of the clicks that follow an AdSense link are just done in order to get money from the person paying for the ad. Some people believe the number of fraudulent clicks to be even twice as large.

There are a great deal more schemes involving click fraud, such as groups of AdSense publishers clicking each other’s links (which is referred to as “clicking rings”, or spamming people so that they click such links.

Despite Google still holding click fraud on a leash, the phenomenon is certainly raising concerns for the advertisers on AdWords, but despite this advertising with Google’s AdSense still remains more profitable for the advertiser, as opposed to traditional untargeted advertising schemes.

There are some means of protection against such schemes and all advertisers should be savvy enough to employ them. Many advertisers choose to avoid the content network all together for fear of click fraud.

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You should get IP ban to click frauder to your website ads.

 

yes , but Google use more that one tool to detect click frauds

 

There are facebook tools for that Just search for people with 'Clicker' lastname

 

nice post

 

thanks for your replay, what do you think about the last algo of google ?

 

it is cool

 

Thanks for the information, nice article. Well Written.

 

thanks for your replay..
You kow i ve visited you blog about acne, so tell me , with this structure, google never told you about click frauds or something like that ?

 

If someone try to click massively in order to ban my adsense account, how can I know and how to solve this issue ?

 

A great read, thanks!
very interesting

 

Thanks for this information, but first off I want to clear something.
Proxy Servers aren't basicly 'Trojans' in fact they are not Trojans at all. A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to allow clients to make indirect network connections to other network services. It is pretty much a 12 digit code that people use to look like they are another computer so they can click on the advertisements without getting banned.

 

We can get rid of this by using Site meter, it will show us the IP address of people those who clicking on our adsense ads. So if we noticed more than 1 click from a ip ? Then just ban that ip from your site using IP deny manager tool which available on your Hosting Cpanel.

 

Do you find that article useful?

 

Yes. I find it very useful... hehe

 

very useful !!!!!

 

One of the way of common click fraud is using Innosnow to buy traffic.

 

my adsense was disable because invalid click.. what should i do now?

 

very useful artical...thanks

 

I once got 600% or so more adsense revenue in one day, when compared to other days. I still wonder why, probably someone was clicking the ads on my websites like crazy! Never happened again though.