Comments on: Why I think ClickFraud is far greater than imagined.

By: Rhon Daguro

Rhon Daguro — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:25:20 +0000

I got totally screwed over with click fraud. If your enemies find your site, or if your competitors find your site, all they have to do is go jerk happy and click all your ads. Once that happens, your flagged, and then banned without any warning. Google Adsense is not a reliable money maker.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:30:41 +0000

There could be a massive, world wide stock market fraud occurring right now that could threaten the integrity of the entire NASDAQ!

Who could be the perpetrators of this unspeakable crime? Thousands of Google\'s stockholders! They could be currently protecting their Google stock investments by simply clicking on Google\'s pay per click contextual ads to vastly increase Google\'s overall net earnings, and thus ultimately increasing their own stock profits significantly.

Why wouldn\'t Google\'s stockholders be clicking on the ads themselves, or perhaps paying people to click on them to inflate their stock price? Ever since stock market investing first began there\'s always been a strong desire for investors to hold on to their money and earn more. And Google\'s stockholders are no exception. That\'s why it shouldn\'t be that hard to believe, that hundreds, if not thousands of Google\'s stockholders could be secretly clicking on the Google ads themselves, boosting Google\'s profits and getting away with it, at least for now.

By: Brandon Connell

Brandon Connell — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

I think that if someone is dumb enough to use PPC without understanding they might lose alot of money on fake clicks then they deserve it. My business is highly competitive and I know better not to use PPC. Natural rankings, word of mouth, inbound links from websites I either designer or provide SEO/SEM for and ads that I post on CraigsList are how I make ends meet. Anything else is just extra and if the extra will take more out of my pocket than it would bring in then I obviously would not use it. PPC is one of those things.

By: Become a consultant >> Andrea

Become a consultant >> Andrea — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

Other click fraud cases include bidding up keywords that your competitors want and clicking on your competitors’ ads to drain their budgets. Sad but true.

By: HisBoyElroy

HisBoyElroy — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

trip. is it possible that url hosts may inflate click and unique visitor stats?

By: :D

:D — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

In addition to “click exchanges”, there is a proliferation of sites which PAY people to perform click fraud. Some of the “made for adsense” sites advertise here and you can get paid up to one US cent directly into paypal per (fraudulent) click you make. Paypal fees, middlemens’ profits, Google’s profit, advertisers are probably losing at least 5 cents per click.

By: Pam Ditto

Pam Ditto — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

I work for a company that does seo and internet marketing for a certain channel. We have by choice gotten away from PPC as much as possible due to the fact we are no longer seeing results from the expense, basically the ROI is no longer there. It’s a shame because even very niche terms are becoming priced out of reason due to the escallating occurance of people escallating prices to hurt others. PPC has lost almost any value to a business that is truly competitive in the current marketplace.

By: Pam Ditto

Pam Ditto — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

By: jack

jack — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:05 +0000

Clickfraud is the cost of advertising on the internet. Modern day E-commerce, like a newly discovered type of cow, has its gristle, usable trim, and loss. Its like P2P, it will never die, it is a cost of doing business in the digital age, you want the convenience of an E-lifestyle? Best get used to the E-mosquitos.

The other huge issue is, Clickfraud is not a user related problem, the internet users of the world do not care how advertisers have to work it out, or how much money they loose, the realism is that it will go on perpetually as a cost of doing business.

And it’s always funny to hear a rant from a billionaire calling someone else greedy and jealous. Not that you are a greedy guy, I know you are not, but careful throwing stones man. *poke* all in good fun though…

I’m a Chef, There are just some parts of doing business that get lost/wasted. It’s part of nature. Take it or leave it

By: wpn_chris

wpn_chris — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:04 +0000

click fraud has been around as long as PPC advertising has. it’s just getting more and more prevelant has more and more people (and companies) adopt this style of advertising. and it’s not like they are going away (PPC or click fraud) if latest numbers are any indication.

the problem isn’t identifying the issue anymore. that was done a long time ago. the problem is what is going to be done to stop it. when you have foreign companies that exist solely to conduct click fraud, then you start to realize how big the problem is. however, we still haven’t gotten past the identification stage, even tho we all know it’s going on.

the question is, what does Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, et al plan to do to combat this problem? better yet, will these guys do anything at all? remember, search engines/ad providers BENEFIT from clicks, real or otherwise. is there an answer? and please don’t say captchas… oh wait, that’s for comment spam.

great fourth quarter last night, btw. dirk was UNSTOPPABLE…