How to FIGHT click-attacks ?

Hi,

Continuing from WMW Forums...

We are having lots of problems with click-attacks. It all started in the begining of this year. We had attack one day and that was it.

Now in last 10 days 3 of our sites are under attack. Attacker is obviously someone close to us, that knows what are we doing and how are we doing it.

We even suspect who is he but we will not mention his name because we are not 100% sure.

Problem is we cannot do anything to stop him... When we removed ads from our pages, he started to attack us using Google Cache versions of our sites.

We have informed Google about this case, supplied them with server logs, his IP address, network name, etc., even reported him to his ISP, but what else is in our power?

Biggest problem is we probably know who is clicking but we cannot do anything. He is member of WebmasterWorld Forum and already banned from Google AdSense...

please help us and give some advices.

thank you very much, in advance!

 

For me it will tell me a lot about him if you can tell why he was banned from AdSense?

That is the problem, yes. And what G! says about that?

If the IP is the same, block him or try also to give him a cookie and when user has gor cookie, no ads.

But if he want do that, he will! Maybe you can stop him with friend talk.

I hope I helped you a little.

Bye.

 

thats scary man really google can ban u in a second well the solution-we all should send a suggesstion mail to google collectively regarding this topic & that they should make a special department for such an activity.What do you guys think???

 

I was suspicious about some activity the other day. Told G and they said they'd monitor

You shouldnt need to take your ads off? G should be able to fix it for you... In my opinion anyway

Just as long as you tell them it should be OK

 

With Google cache, you can't do anything!!! With .htaccess and his IP addresses, on the site you could ban him using .htaccess...

<Limit GET POST>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 168.103.51
</Limit>

 

@frisby
He was banned because of fraud activity (clicks and traffic)...

@sunnyaros
Yes, very scary. We should make some suggestion and send email to Google, for example signed by 1000 publishers. That would made impact in Google AdSense department.

@AnsonM
Google also said they would monitor my situation.

I now have very much fraud clicks (500-1000 daily) but Google has given me 0$ of revenue for that...

 

There's plenty of suggestions around in this forum to prevent click fraud. Like only showing ads to the same IP 3 times, then replacing them with Yahoo or Aff banners for 72 hours automatically.

 

I have banned his IP address already, but problem is he is visiting my website using different IP's from Google Cache, and I cannot restrict that.

Fact is one: If he wants to click, he will click.

Problem is: Google does not protect us (publishers)...

 

If he did fraud clicks, that mean he is such a luser, he is an idiot... that kind of behaviour has got someone who want to scared you.

But I have never heard about fraud traffic as you said, what is that?

 

Maybe this is wrong thing I said. Sorry for that... Check your PM!

 

Then don't rely on IP alone. Block his entire geographic area, profile his behaviour (User Agent, Browser, OS, ISP), drop him a cookie etc. etc. there's a dozen of things that can help you come to a 'risk assessment' for a particular user and based on the 'score' you can choose to not show ads.

Don't assume the role of the victim so easily, take matters in your own hands if it bothers you so much.

 

This is what happpend to me i got 2 times banned and then unbanned but i am banned now again dont wana get unbanned now

 

Make sure you save all E-mails from Google, just in case they ban you!!!

 

Why would you not want to get unbanned

And how did you know it was a "click attack"?

 

Becuase i can see 3387 clicks in per day in adsense account and with 0$ i,ve emailed google but they ban unban then again ban and unban...
So dont want it anymore

 

So your case is similar to my, so I just need to wait "You are Banned" email

 

I don't get your attitude. You come here for advice yet you already accepted your fate as a banned user whilst you haven't actually done anything to help yourself.

 

Sure I did, I banned 2 IP ranges that match "suspected" person that is clicking..

I removed Ads from my pages.

I contacted Google...

So, don't tell I didn't done anything!

 

What about the suggestions I made?

If you can demonstrate to Google you have done to your max ability what you can they won't ban you as eaisly.

 

You have mentioned geographic area, user agent, browser.

Problem is he is crazy (probably because AdSense banned his account) and he is doing everything to screw my AdSense account also. When he seen I blocked his IP address then he just started to make damage using Google Cache version of my web.

I have blocked 2 range of IP's and reported him to abuse service but they even don't know THEIR OWN range of IP's so I can block all of them...