I hear people talking about ppc (the low end ones) and BOT clicks... what does this mean? When I ppc I thought I would get actual human clicks... can someone explain?
From what I understand (I could be wrong) a bot click is when a script or software of a bot actually commands information from a link like a human would do when double clicking on a link but only we use a mouse. A bot click is different from a human click because its a program and usually follows a pattern which is probably something Google & Yahoo check for regarding click fraud.
a bot click is a computer generated click. A program can be made to connect to different proxies randomly and click on ads with different IPs. Aditionally, bots click in random patterns to make them seem like normal people clicking on ads.
WTF??!!! So I could be paying for clicks by some program? Why would anyone use the lower ppc guys if this happens... which is what had to have happened for me to get as many clicks as I did in about 1 hours time (tried ask.com ppc today)! It was ridiculous! Now I'm p*ssed off! So not fair!
yeah its always the risk with PPC. You can be sure that someone out there is trying to scam the systems to make more money. Personally I didnt even know Ask.com had a PPC so I couldnt comment on if they are any good at detecting the click bots.
Bot Click is non-human generated click. Usually thru scrip or some other software. Some corrupt newbies try these things to become rich in first month.
There is 2 tybe of the click-bots, attacker & farmer... the attacker is used to disable someone from googleads by generating the amount of clicks you want to his pub id, then google will ban/remove the user from thier service... farmer is to be used by publisher to earn money and some of this bots is un-detectable as they surf the web the way you like and act human, with or without proxy... even google cann't get known to that bot.
you shouldn't worry much about it, bot clicks are easy to detect because it is very hard to replicate the behaviour or natural traffic, specially while keeping ctr low and faking the referer.
If you are familier with the net protocls you would have known that you can send and recive messages act through compressed byte or even encrypted, Some of those bots are well coded and google CANN'T detect them as froud clicks, as it show totaly write bytes and the bot does smart way clicking by surfing the web site and click ever amount of second YOU set. So you will end up having 15,xxx proxys servers as a zombies that do click yours ads, generate impressions and appear as totaly legit click for google... (Welcome to the underground world!) I got the attacker bot but i don't have the farmer as i don't want to cheat the system i'm using even though i'm not using google.
Also i will give you a imple example... World of warcraft game is a MMORPG game made up by blizzard comapny, the MMORPG engine depnds in the human power to move/fight/charge/heal/move...etc, group of coders did code a bot that act as player and does move in waypoints you set or even you can do defualt setting and let it autogo, and you will notice that the bot is playing more like a human and even better then you!, blizzard company is trying to trac the users that uses this bot to level up from lvl 1 ro 60 in 16hour time! but they ain't able to catch those players as the bot act really humanty . Now imagin that bot with more profficnal tuches and working map for it, using all the ways out there to cheat the system!. I hope this example did more clearfy the image for you guys.
Please understand that using this tools is like stealing someone money in real life, would you like to be a thife? as i sayed before "i don't have the farmer becouse i don't want to cheat the system i'm using, even though i'm not using google."
i just want to see it how it work.. i don't want to use it I'm happy with my web designer job in real life