Click Fraud is a booming industry

[SmokeyTheBear]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...te/click_fraud

"We are always worried about it, but it hasn't been a material issue so far," said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.


After recently expanding its staff to patrol click fraud, Google broke up a scheme that had generated several thousand bogus transactions, chief financial officer George Reyes told analysts earlier this week.


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why would it worry them , they still get paid

[AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Aye it is...

I think it started with the first Pay per click programs LOL!

So whats GOogle crying aBout now?

[SmokeyTheBear]

Aye it is...

I think it started with the first Pay per click programs LOL!

So whats GOogle crying aBout now?

They arent crying or if they are they are stupid as it doesnt cost them anything , it costs the advertisers


Its about big advertisers pushing the smaller ones around..

heres a simple cliffnote on one way people do it..

You build a simple bot to click ads for keywords your trying to corner.

You click away until your competition has spent its daily allowance , then you drop your ad in its place and rake in

[SmokeyTheBear]

bump so we keep this to one thread per news flash

[brand0n]

They arent crying or if they are they are stupid as it doesnt cost them anything , it costs the advertisers


Its about big advertisers pushing the smaller ones around..

heres a simple cliffnote on one way people do it..

You build a simple bot to click ads for keywords your trying to corner.

You click away until your competition has spent its daily allowance , then you drop your ad in its place and rake in

ouch. that sucks

[SmokeyTheBear]

Some swindlers have hired cheap overseas contractors to sit in front of computers and click on targeted links all day

ouch they have found my secret lair

[emthree]

Click fraud will allways be around IMO
Unless the advertisers work along with google to form a server based validation method.

By 2008, industry research firm eMarketer expects $7.4 billion to be spent on search engine advertising, up from just $108.5 million in 2000.

That's some crazy shit. I hate to see the future of SE PPC, if this rate continues.

[hydro]

somebody posted an app called "clickjack" that would search google for your keywords then click on all the ads except yours through proxies. Evil mother fuckers!

[DarkJedi]

Google is getting assraped on adsense

[V_RocKs]

Really simple.. under campaign settings, uncheck the box for showing the ad in 'Content' areas.

[$5 submissions]

Didn't Overture come up with tech to fix that? IP tracking and indexing, proxy detection, and other ways to track?

They arent crying or if they are they are stupid as it doesnt cost them anything , it costs the advertisers


Its about big advertisers pushing the smaller ones around..

heres a simple cliffnote on one way people do it..

You build a simple bot to click ads for keywords your trying to corner.

You click away until your competition has spent its daily allowance , then you drop your ad in its place and rake in

[Rorschach]

Didn't Overture come up with tech to fix that? IP tracking and indexing, proxy detection, and other ways to track?

a subscription to someone's bot net would be an easy way around anything like that... click fraud sux0rz.

[Dagwolf]

The cost of prized search terms runs much higher. For instance, the top price for ********, a cancer that spurred scores of lawsuits linking the illness to ****** exposure, recently stood at $51 per click, Fathom said.

WTF are they thinking publishing this crap? How many people are going to search for these terms and click on the ads because they think it's funny to cost some company they've never heard of a few thousand dollars?

[spamofon]

wow welcome to ten years ago, reporters are shocked to find out that there is a click bots oh no! cant wait till the report about post bots on gfy lol

[tungsten]

Click fraud will allways be around IMO
Unless the advertisers work along with google to form a server based validation method.


That's some crazy shit. I hate to see the future of SE PPC, if this rate continues.

7.4 bil? thats nuts

[Rui]

This is really something ppc SE's should look into and improve

[beemk]

they will lose advertisers when they arent making any $ back.

[yuvalus]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...te/click_fraud


why would it worry them , they still get paid

No they won't, if an advertiser costs are up 50% due to click fraud, he'll stop using adwords and google lost another customer in the long run

[SmokeyTheBear]

No they won't, if an advertiser costs are up 50% due to click fraud, he'll stop using adwords and google lost another customer in the long run

not really it just cuts out the small fry and they still make the money off the bigger ones.

Sales wont go down because of click fraud right ? so advertising also wont go down , the money will still be made one way or another.