Anticlick Fraud Script

[mapor]

As you all know the fraudulent clicks are closing many adsense accounts (we can discuss if that is the real reason or perhaps the sites are not so good as the webmasters think...).

Anyway, I feel that if we invest a lot of time developing our website, trying to monetize with several ads feeds and being adsense a very important one, we should protect ourselves against any fraudelent clicks, just in case.

So, my question is:

Do you use a script to stop any attempt to produce fraudent cliks? If yes, wich? How can we get it?
I am not talking about software that reports fraudulent clicks.

I am talking about a software or script that PREVENTS the fraudulent clicks.

I read some posts on this, before, but I didnīt get any concrete information.

If you know any information about this, I believe that it would interest a lot of us.

Or we shouldn't care about this and trust only that if we have a good content site, we will never be vanished?

Thank you, for your answers.

[mapor]

and one more question:

if we use such a software/script is it allowed by adsense tos?

[wariental]

I am also interested in this... I recently had 14 clicks that did not get recorded and my site is very new. I want to stop people from doing this.

[david_uk]

You may find that the clicks were from cpm ads - don't be in a rush to assume it's invalid clicks.

Also beware of the "I've been booted by Google for no reason" threads - plausible as they may sound, usually there are good reasons Google has booted them. They are rarely booted unjustly, so don't take the bleating they make here as the entire truth of the matter.

Be aware of the TOS, don't click ads yourself or encourage friends, family to click, don't draw attention to the ads by "Click the ads to support the site" etc. and you'll be fine :)

[WallyWorld]

There are probably tens of thousands of AdSense publishers but most that get booted probably find this forum to complain about it. So, add up the "I've been booted" threads and divide that by tens of thousands and you'll see how unlikely it is that Google will kick you out without good reason.

[europeforvisitors]

Be aware of the TOS, don't click ads yourself or encourage friends, family to click, don't draw attention to the ads by "Click the ads to support the site" etc. and you'll be fine :)

And don't steal content, either. Google uses the term "invalid clicks" pretty loosely, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if many of the publishers who get banned have been using content that was lifted from other sites.

[mapor]

So, what all of you are saying is that if I have an original content site, I shouldn't worry with the "invalid clicks" issue?

I ask again: You don't use some kind of software to protect you, just in case?

[roycerus]

I always felt that Google should create some kind of monitoring script which would work in conjunction with their javascript to ascertain the validity of a click. Could server side scripting provide better means to track what is going on? Something which Google guys can cook up?

[jchampliaud]

I ask again: You don't use some kind of software to protect you, just in case?

No, I don't use any software to portect myself. I've been using AdSense for over two and a half years and have not had any problems. If you want to protect yourself create a 'white hat' site with your own content and do not click on your own ads and/or don't ask any one too. In other words be a good business partner. Do to Google as you want them to do to you. That's the best protection you can offer yourself.

[europeforvisitors]

I'll echo what jchampliaud said.

FWIW, I've been the victim of major click attacks twice (I once got more than $1,300's worth of above-average clicks in a matter of hours), and I'm still here. Why? I'd guess for two reasons:

1) I notified Google when I noticed the big and unlikely spikes in earnings (something that a person trying to defraud Google and its advertisers obviously wouldn't have done); and...

2) Any Google employee looking at my site would quickly see that it isn't a "made for AdSense" site and that I'm not likely to be the kind of publisher who'd try to cheat Google and its advertisers for short-term gains.

Ultimately, the best defense against getting banned from AdSense is to have the kind of site that's clearly legitimate and delivers high-quality traffic to AdSense advertisers.

[david_uk]

I've clicked on my own ads purely by mistake on 3 or 4 occasions in the last 2+ years - I'm still here. I emailed Googe immediately explaining the accidental click, and got a nice email back thanking me for letting them know.

I do not worry about getting booted. I stick by the rules, and if I have any queries as to what is or isn't allowed and I'm not sure, I've asked them. If I had any dramatic spikes I'd email them to let them know, and I feel confident that if there was a problem they would be keen to work with me on it.

As one of the other posters pointed out, do unto Google as you would like them to do unto you. Play by the rules and Google will work with you if there's a problem. If you flaunt the very clear rules don't expect Google to play ball with you if you have a problem.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

It's best to let G apply its own technology to do the fraud-screening IMHO. If you try to add too much cleverness of your own then you may prevent G's own alarms from going off.

About the only thing I do in this area, which is also to try to save some bandwidth and avoid getting any more ***Q&Ģ%QQW^TR*QYo^%Ģ!&@@@*** SPAM from my pages being scraped for my email address, is to block out all compromised and SPAMmer-controlled machines/IPs using some of the free DNS block lists (eg SPAMHAUS).

Rgds

Damon

[Noel]

I coded an anticlick 'fraud script' in Coldfusion (long time ago)

What it does is it records the IP and the add clicked on to a database (problem is that it only works for Internet Explorer).

When a user cames back again within a set time, and with the same IP it will not show any Adsense.

It's not 100% anticlick fraudable, but it does work :-)