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Manga1 · 01-01-2006, 06:26 PM

None of this should be new to adult webmasters. Back in the toplist and cj days it was pretty common to get hit by hitbots. Hell, many big sites in those days got big by using hitbots. Back then the traffic scripts were really vulnerable to hitbots.

A few years ago I went on a camping trip and when I came back I checked my Adwords campaigns and saw a massive spike in traffic which cost me thousands of dollars. From my cj days I knew someone nailed me with a hitbot. I complained to Google and after an investigation I got all my money back plus an extra $300 credit for my troubles.

You shouldn't be advertising on the content network in Adwords anyway. The traffic is crap and you open yourself up to clickfraud as well. Same with Overture. You should always turn off Content Match and Advanced Match in Overture.

Click fraud won't kill ppc. PPC has been around since the 90s and click fraud has been around since then too. This article is mostly for the newbies. This is all old news to anybody who's been doing ppc for a few years and should definitely not be anything new to anyone who's been around adult for a while.

01-01-2006, 06:26 PM
Manga1 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Malakiaville Posts: 952	None of this should be new to adult webmasters. Back in the toplist and cj days it was pretty common to get hit by hitbots. Hell, many big sites in those days got big by using hitbots. Back then the traffic scripts were really vulnerable to hitbots. A few years ago I went on a camping trip and when I came back I checked my Adwords campaigns and saw a massive spike in traffic which cost me thousands of dollars. From my cj days I knew someone nailed me with a hitbot. I complained to Google and after an investigation I got all my money back plus an extra $300 credit for my troubles. You shouldn't be advertising on the content network in Adwords anyway. The traffic is crap and you open yourself up to clickfraud as well. Same with Overture. You should always turn off Content Match and Advanced Match in Overture. Click fraud won't kill ppc. PPC has been around since the 90s and click fraud has been around since then too. This article is mostly for the newbies. This is all old news to anybody who's been doing ppc for a few years and should definitely not be anything new to anyone who's been around adult for a while.