Re: False Clicks/Click Fraud

From: Brad Jensen <brad.jensen_at_laservault.com>
Date: Tue 15 Aug 2006 12:45:33 -0500

Bob Schmidt wrote:

> 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 prevalence 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.

In my case, I am on fixed ips. It can't be a cookie, since the
google adsense pages are on google.com domain, and the adsense
links go to a completely different domain
(googlesyndication.com, or something like that).

> Simply
> seeing an AdWords ad clicked on the site of the AdSense
> account by the AdSense account holder for the site the click

> occurred on, they could easily detect your click.

I had to read that sentence three times to decode it. Yes.

But not with cookies. A browser will not report back a cookie
for a different domain.

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

That's basically what I suggested to them. I don't think they
have a shortage of programmers, so I guess they want to remind
the AdSense publisher that big brother Google is watching.
They offer an AdSense publisher tool that pulls up links for
the page that are testable, but they aren't the same links
that you see on the page - in one case I got links in Chinese
and Hebrew. Ort maybe it was Japanese and Hebrew.

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

I don't think most AdSense publishers are going to risk their
income-earning potential by engaging in intentional fraud.
Period. I plan to make thousands of dollars a day by
organizing and publishing useful content, and providing new
applications for others to cooperatively create that content.

Brad Jensen





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