[WEBINAR] Click Fraud: Protect Yourself from Internet Crime!

TRADA PRESENTS CLICK FRAUDPROTECT YOURSELF! #PPCfraud

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Matt Hessler,Director of Account Management @fasterstill Anna Sawyer, Marketing Manager @annafsawyer

What is click fraud?Matt Hessler: @fasterstill www.trada.com/blog Anna Sawyer: @annafsawyer

When a person,automated script orcomputer programimitates alegitimate user of aweb browser clicking onan ad for the purpose ofgenerating a charge perclick without havingactual interest in thetarget of the ads link.

Fraud vs. unwanted clicks Fraud: intentionally malicious, to make someone else money or to deplete an advertiser’s budget at an accelerated rate.

Fraud vs. unwanted clicks Unwanted clicks: duplicate clicks from shopping comparison, ad network errors, internal or competitor clicks on a small scale.

Network click fraud When a second-tier publisher - like a blog or website with display ads on it - tries to increase its cut of the proﬁts by generating fraudulent clicks.

If the Denver Egotistclicked on or hiredsomeone to click ontheir display or textads, that would be (Not that we’renetwork click fraud, implicating the Egotist!and the Egotist would This is just anbe the beneﬁciary, example!)since they get paideach time an ad isclicked.Matt Hessler: @fasterstill www.trada.com/blog Anna Sawyer: @annafsawyer

Competitor click fraud The intent is to deplete a competitors click budget in PPC, display or Facebook ads.

If ﬂowerdeliveryexpress.com wanted to beatbloomstoday.com on the day before Valentine’s Day, theycould hire a company to fraudulently depletebloomstoday.com’s daily budget, and would then dominatethe ﬁrst position on that important day.

How you’re protectedMatt Hessler: @fasterstill www.trada.com/blog Anna Sawyer: @annafsawyer

Major search networkshave many mechanismsin place to protect youfrom click fraud bydetecting it before youever see your reports.

To see your invalid clicks, choose Columns inyour campaign tab, and add Invalid Clicks andInvalid Click Rate. This will show you everythingGoogle has ﬁltered out before billing you.

MYTH: Searchnetworks beneﬁt fromclick fraud.

How can you detect click fraud or invalid clicks that the search network missed?Matt Hessler: @fasterstill www.trada.com/blog Anna Sawyer: @annafsawyer

Keep an eye on yourreports for thefollowing ﬁshy activity.

Fishy: Suddenincrease/decrease inclick count, followed bya sustained aberrantclick count.

Fishy: Spikes inotherwise consistentclick rates.

Fishy: Sudden jumpin click-through rate fora single keyword.

Fishy: Signiﬁcantdifferences in clickvolume for similarterms, such as 3x clickson “Buy scuba gear”and “scuba gear sale”.

Fishy: Unusually highclick-through rate oncontent ads (whichtypically don’t performas well as search ads).

Fishy: Many clicksfrom a single IP addressor an address outsideyour geotargeted areas.

Now what?Matt Hessler: @fasterstill www.trada.com/blog Anna Sawyer: @annafsawyer

Get as muchinformation aspossible, includingdates, times and IPaddresses.

Note on IP addresses: Dueto user privacy concerns, GoogleAnalytics doesnt report onpersonally identiﬁableinformation, including a visitors IPaddress. Instead, Google Analyticsprovides aggregated data to helpyou make informed businessdecisions. You can view the MapOverlay report (under theVisitors section) to look ataggregated geographical dataabout your visitors, or view theNetwork Location report (underVisitors > Network Properties)to see your visitors ISP locations.

Then, ﬁll out the InvalidClicks Contact Formfrom Google, orcontact support if youare using AdCenter.

AdWords IPExclusion:If you can narrow theinvalid clicks down to aspeciﬁc IP address, youcan exclude your adsfrom being shown tothat IP. (You can ﬁndthis under Networks>> Exclusions.)

Click fraud accounts for a formidablepercent of total clicks - but much of ithappens before you ever get charged. Still, vigilance is the best way to be protected from unwanted clicks thatmay slip through the networks’ ﬁngers. trada.com

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