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airpal - 8:58 pm on Nov 6, 2003 (gmt 0)
Brett, have you noticed a rise in this sort of behavior on major PPC's? I don't understand how the Search Engines think they can detect 1 fraudulent click a day from 2000 (proxies) random parts of the world... Toolman, care to sticky me with information regarding which keywords/urls you experienced this behavior with.
Although this is the related forum, I think there's too much focus on Adsense in this discussion. The bigger concern IMHO should be the proxy ips clicking-through the PPC ads (i.e. Adwords, Overture listings) as Brett mentioned. Somebody can knock out their competitors ads if they're not careful with setting spending limits on their campaigns! I have thankfully not been at the worse end of this situation. However, I am very curious as to why not too many people in big business or even regular affiliates haven't used this as a method to effectively disable their competitors ads. My best guess is that they're not familiar with proxy scanners/irc? Or maybe it is very prevailent, but just has not been given any media attention.