Click Fraud?

Discussion in 'Reporting & Stats' started by bacchus, Apr 10, 2008.

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    I was just looking over the reporting today for two of my sites. They are both low traffic and yield a handful of clicks a day on average for the last year.

    All of a sudden they show 41 clicks on 139 impressions and 31 clicks on 54 impressions respectively this morning. No revenue generated.

    Should I assume that this is someone trying to flag my account by clicking incessantly on the ads? Or is this just a click dump on non revenue generating clicks?

    The strange part about it is one site does not necessary lead to the other, although they do share a single IP.
     
    bacchus, Apr 10, 2008 IP
  2. bacchus

    bacchus Peon

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    Asked and answered. I see further down the page this subject has been covered. There seems to be a lot of this going around lately. I bet it is a bot.
     
    bacchus, Apr 10, 2008 IP
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    pipes Prominent Member

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    I agree its invalid clicks and most likely a bot, not someone taking the time to do it by hand.
     
    pipes, Apr 12, 2008 IP