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> <channel><title>John Pope &#187; click fraud</title> <atom:link href="http://www.johnpopes.com/tag/click-fraud/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.johnpopes.com</link> <description>Gadgets, Build a Website, Computer Tips and Tricks</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:32:15 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Click fraud: a growing danger for making money online</title><link>http://www.johnpopes.com/internet/click-fraud-a-growing-danger-for-making-money-online-490/</link> <comments>http://www.johnpopes.com/internet/click-fraud-a-growing-danger-for-making-money-online-490/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:26:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Pope</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertisements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[click fraud]]></category> <category><![CDATA[make money online]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnpopes.com/?p=490</guid> <description><![CDATA[How people make money online from advertisements: you put some banners on your website, the advertiser pays for the number of times users see those banners (CPM &#8211; Cost per mile) or pay for the number of clicks (CPC - Cost per click). Those are the main ways to get money from advertisements, but of [...]<p><div
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href="http://www.johnpopes.com/internet/click-fraud-a-growing-danger-for-making-money-online-490/">Click fraud: a growing danger for making money online</a> is an article from <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_mille">CPM</a> &#8211; Cost per mile) or pay for the number of clicks (<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_per_click">CPC </a>- Cost per click). Those are the main ways to get money from advertisements, but of course there are variations, but I won&#8217;t discuss them.</p><div
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class="size-large wp-image-496" title="Top 10 countries that lead in click fraud traffic" src="http://www.johnpopes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/click-fraud-top-10-countries-600x320.png" alt="Top 10 countries that lead in click fraud traffic" width="600" height="320" /></a><p
class="wp-caption-text">Top 10 countries that lead in click fraud traffic</p></div><p>What&#8217;s the biggest growing danger for advertisers and publishers? Click fraud, which is an invalid click, on purpose (<em>attempted click fraud</em>) or not (<em>innoculous invalid</em>) to alter statistics or increase earnings for the publisher.<strong> Click fraud is also use to deceive advertisement programs</strong> (like Google Adsense) to exclude a certain publisher from the system because it uses unfair techniques to increase its earnings.</p><h2>What&#8217;s the danger?</h2><p>For the advertiser it&#8217;s hard to calculate its <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_of_return">ROI </a>and in time it will see that advertisements don&#8217;t result in sales increase. After it sees that the obvious outcome is that it starts paying less to publishers. As you can see <strong>this is a circle that affects everyone in long term </strong>as we all know that trust is gained hard and gets lost easy.</p><h2>Click fraud statistics</h2><p><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/sure-the-us-has-a-lot-of-click-fraud-but-at-least-were-not-vietnam/">A report submitted by Anchor Intelligence</a> show that the percentage of click fraud in advertisements system reached a very alarming 22.9%. Vietnam is leading with a 49.7% percentage while, Canada is second with 28.7 %, while<strong> USA is third with 27.3 %, but it has the highest indexed volume of clicks</strong> and this makes it the worst.</p><p>A map of quality traffic on the globe shows that<strong> Russia, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America (minus Brazil) are the regions with less click fraud</strong>, but as traffic increases is likely the percentage of valid clicks will decrease in time.</p><div
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class="wp-caption-text">Global report click fraud traffic quality</p></div><p><div
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