Their definition of useless combines those suffering from fat finger syndrome (22 percent) as well as fraudulent clicks from botnets or hidden double banners (18 percent). As mobile advertising continues to find its place in the hearts and minds of...
Botnets accounted for 42.6% of click fraud in Q3 2009, more than double the 27.5% rate in Q3 2008. Botnets perpetrating click fraud and other online schemes continue to grow in number and sophistication.
Publisher collusion fraud is when publishers use things like botnets to click on ads on their own sites to generate income. Click Forensics has released data regarding pay-per-click (PPC) fraud for the second quarter of 2009.
Traffic from botnets was responsible for 31.4 percent of all click fraud traffic in Q4 2008. Click Forensics published its numbers for click fraud during Q4 2008 and it appears the fraud numbers are climbing.
Traffic from botnets was responsible for 31.4 percent of all click fraud traffic in Q4 2008. Both the overall click fraud rate and the rate of click fraud originating from botnets were the highest ever in Q4 2008.
Traffic from botnets was responsible for 27.6% of all click fraud traffic in Q3 2008, up from 25.2% for Q2 2008. However, the growth in click fraud traffic from botnets continues to rise and it should be one of the top areas advertisers and the...
A significant percentage of today's click fraud traffic can be attributed to two growing areas of concern for search advertisers: traffic that comes from botnets and from parked domains or made-for-ad sites," Tom Cuthbert, president and CEO of...
Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger caused quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google's AdWords program. Botnets and Click Fraud and Terrorists, Oh My! =================== In This Issue ===================
Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger caused quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google's AdWords program. Botnets and Click Fraud and Terrorists, Oh My! Managing Editor, Search Engine Watch
The meat of the story is the prevalence of botnets. Botnets and Click Fraud and Terrorists, Oh My! Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger is causing quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google's AdWords program.
Webmaster Radio's Jim Hedger is causing quite a stir with his exposé on botnets, click fraud, and terrorists profiting from Google's AdWords program. The meat of the story is the prevalence of botnets.
Luis Corrons, head of PandaLabs, says: "Botnets are part of the cyber-crime business model, as they are normally hired or sold to third parties to carry out malicious actions such as sending spam, stealing confidential data or installing other...
Botnets strangle Google Adwords campaigns. Since Google recently made it past the 10 word query mark with a new limit of 32, I think Yahoo still has them beat with this. Not only can you seemingly paste as much text as you like into the query box...
Botnets strangle Google Adwords campaigns from The Register looks at how bots might be used to generate views of ads on Google but not clicks. Why? A low clickthrough rate might get the ad disabled, making it easier for a competitor to then come...
