What is click fraud ?

[Dmoz]

Hello all members,

What is click fraud? and how can I prevent it ?

Tips ?

 

[hoangvu]

Click fraud is fraud clicks with bad intent to do damage to the advertiser or the improper benefit to the click.

 

[aixporter]

For example, you have a marketing campaign with a CPC of $1.00 on Google. Fraud clicks are someone who tries to damage your marketing campaigns by clicking on them flamingly.

Another case is if you generate revenue from clicks and you hire people to click on them.

 

[bruno007]

Click fraud is a kind of cheating on internet which occurs on the Internet in pay per click advertising. when a person, automate the script or computer software program that imitates the behavior of a user who clicks on ads for the purpose of generating a charge per click without having interest in the target of the ad's link.

 

[tayloralina]

Click fraud is the practice of artificially inflating traffic statistics to defraud advertisers or web sites that provide places for advertisers. In the form of the joint declaration pay-per-click, advertisers pay a fee for each click on their relevance. According to CNET news articles some sectors of the industry to have several cost-per-clicks of dollars. Using automated compression programs or the use of low-cost workers, click Options and perpetrators create the illusion that a large number of potential customers and clicking on links the advertiser, while in reality there is no chance that any of the clicks will lead to profit for the advertiser.