Fraudulent clicks--banned for low quality?

Discussion in 'Publisher Network' started by joystick, Jan 20, 2007.

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    A couple weeks ago, I installed a contextual ad tracker to monitor the click activity on my yahoo ads. Today I noticed that one IP address had clicked on 109 ads--all which occured within the same minute!!!

    It's simply not possible for a human to pull that off, so it must be some sort of malicious program, attempting to try and get me banned by repeated fraudulent clicks.

    I have noticed that since I started tracking the clicks a handful of IPs will show this behavior of repeated clicks on ads.

    Comparing the statistics from my click tracker and how many Yahoo gives me credit for, Yahoo is paying me on the vast majority of these clicks.

    Therefore, I am starting to wonder if publishers who have gotten tossed out of YPN for low quality conversion, are doing so in part because YPN DOESN"T filter the majority of this type of click activity, but eventually just bans the publisher.

    I would like to mitigate against that possibility. Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent this type of fraudulent click activity?
     
    joystick, Jan 20, 2007 IP
  2. xharrisonx

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    That scares me, could you tell me what software your using?
     
    xharrisonx, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  3. TomN

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    #3
    I'd like to know which software you're using too.
     
    TomN, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  4. jabb

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    Why dont you ban the IP? Ban it from your server or from your click tracking software, use adlogger if your tracker doesn't ban.
     
    jabb, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  5. Kalyse

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    #5
    Very nice tool.
    Thanks for the link to that adlogger. I have always wanted something like this.

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    Is there a tool for adwords? I have seen it once when I visited a site by clicking a google ad twice. It then told me I had..
     
    Kalyse, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  6. Orien

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    Thanks for the link. That sounds scary though.
     
    Orien, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  7. ArcticPro

    ArcticPro Banned

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    That only works for Adsense.
     
    ArcticPro, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  8. giovanni

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    Adlogger looks like a nice too
     
    giovanni, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  9. joystick

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  10. giovanni

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    Thankyou for the link, i was wondering all thsis time
     
    giovanni, Jan 21, 2007 IP
  11. bellweather

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    Had over 50 thousand clicks on one of my adsense this past sept 11 (one hour), Emailed google about it, never heard anything back.. I didnt get paid for those clicks so they auto filtered them out. I wonder if YPN does it as well if theres more then 1 click per ip per day on a site?
     
    bellweather, Jan 21, 2007 IP