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SmokeyTheBear 02-13-2005 02:03 AM
Click Fraud is a booming industry
 
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 :1orglaugh

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE 02-13-2005 02:05 AM
Aye it is...

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

So whats GOogle crying aBout now?

SmokeyTheBear 02-13-2005 02:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlienQ
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 02-13-2005 02:14 AM
bump so we keep this to one thread per news flash

brand0n 02-13-2005 02:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
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 02-13-2005 02:19 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by YAHOO
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 :( :1orglaugh

emthree 02-13-2005 02:22 AM
Click fraud will allways be around IMO
Unless the advertisers work along with google to form a server based validation method.

Quote:
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 02-13-2005 02:28 AM
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 02-13-2005 02:34 AM
Google is getting assraped on adsense

V_RocKs 02-13-2005 03:29 AM
Really simple.. under campaign settings, uncheck the box for showing the ad in 'Content' areas.

$5 submissions 02-13-2005 03:33 AM
Didn't Overture come up with tech to fix that? IP tracking and indexing, proxy detection, and other ways to track?

Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
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 02-13-2005 03:37 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by $5 submissions
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 02-13-2005 04:05 AM
Quote:
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? :eek7 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 02-13-2005 12:08 PM
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 02-13-2005 12:21 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by emthree
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 02-13-2005 01:06 PM
This is really something ppc SE's should look into and improve :(

beemk 02-13-2005 01:37 PM
they will lose advertisers when they arent making any $ back.

yuvalus 02-13-2005 02:03 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...te/click_fraud


why would it worry them , they still get paid :1orglaugh
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 02-13-2005 02:27 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by yuvalus
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.


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