I checks the paths of my visitors and it seemsthat some people are clicking my ads multiple times - grrr...how do I deal???
Call me dumb and help me out - how can we detect clicks - in the logs? What do they look like? Definitely not in AWstats right?
I'll suggest download firefox and install adsense notifier extension, if you dont have it, You can set it to update every 5 minutes, and 2-3 days with it, you'll easily detect if your site is been bombed IMO
I already have Firefox. It's fun when the stats climb up steadily, not so fun when it seems to stall I'm specifically interested in post #1 - how was he able to check the paths of the visitors and what they clicked on?
Install webalizer or similiar tracker on your server, then you can see exiting urls and referring urls, thats the only way IMO and about the ads what they clicked on thing, you can set each ad unit to different channel, that way it you can track this too
You can also use a stat program like: http://www.addfreestats.com (free) and it shows you where your exit clicks go. It works for AdSense, according to them , and I know it works for other ads, like adbrite.
You don't need to deal with them... As long as you aren't doing it (or asking people to do it), you are fine. Google has automatic click fraud controls in place already.
Actually, people are clicking MY paid advertising and sponsored searches. So perhaps click bombed is not the right term… The ones I pay for using adwords/yahoo...
No more than what is average - Yahoo has a click fraud protection. Does Google? It is not my ADsense as much as my ADwords
So if a visitor clicks 3 times ad in 3 hours (keeping same ip address).What this fraud control will do? count it 1
Hmmm imho there must be some threshold variable in google algo to control over cost by single (same) visitor.
Of course there is... it's probably based on 10,000 different variables and weighted based on probability of all those different variables and how they affect each other. Just saying, "3 clicks in 3 hours" is terribly simplistic... Google can see (in some cases) how well that person historically has converted into a "goal" for other advertisers. They can see their historical patterns of site visitation vs. clicking ads (maybe the user has visited a lot of similar sites lately for example), etc, etc, etc... Once their thousands of variables are taken into account, then they can determine the value this click/customer brings to the AdWords advertiser (for example they might charge less for the click).