analysing click fraud

Posted By: cyber61 ()
Posted On: 2005-Oct-04 19:03

can anyone help me to understand how to analyze click fraud


Posted By: SportsGuy (Staff)
Posted On: 2005-Oct-13 14:24

Keep VERY accurate records of not only what the PPC shows you as results in your reports, but what your logs are showing you. This is a start.

After this, you'll spend most of your time trolling through your logs trying to follow actual traffic from your PPC.

You might want to redirect that PPC traffic "through" a specific page or tag it with your own tracking tag to be sure where it's going.

My log files and Adsense reports never agree on how many page views I show each day. Adsense is always lower than my log files (go figure...LOL)

I know, though, that a certain amount of difference is to be expected between tracking programs. There's no set "difference" to look for, but over time you can build a solid picture f your own "difference" trend - if THAT trend starts rising, I'd suspect issues.