Re: False Clicks/Click Fraud

From: Bob Schmidt <schmidt_at_provider.com>
Date: Tue 15 Aug 2006 09:40:36 -0500

Brad Jensen writes:

>I assume they matched my ip to an ip used to log in to my
>Adsense account statistics. (They didn't say how they matched
>me up.)

Hmm. Based on the prevelance of dynamic IP addresses, I doubt that is
their method. It's more likely to be in the Google cookie which no
doubt ties together your google account id, your Adwords account id,
and your AdSense account id. Simply seeing an Adwords ad clicked on
the site of the AdSense account by the AdSense account holder for the
site the click occured on, they could easily detect your click.

Of course, if they can automatically detect, they can also presumably
automatically suppress from billing and reporting, but that is another issue...



Bob Schmidt
President
Provider Marketing Group
Orlando, Florida
www.provider.com
Marketing Online Since 1990




Received on Tue Aug 15 2006 - 09:40:36 CDT