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	San Francisco & Los Angeles SEO Company - Alchemist Media, Inc.
		Danny Sullivan was interested in the idea and invited me to speak on a panel to share these experiences with click fraud in order to give advertisers information about how to begin to analyze their CPC traffic for click fraud and invalid click activity.
		One of the most disturbing aspects of click fraud activity is that it is not uniform across advertisers - fraudulent clicks occur with varying frequency across verticals, keywords, and bid prices - with increasing evidence that the higher the bid price, the more rampant the click fraud.
		Fraudulent clicks happen on a regular basis and to a much greater extent than the CPC engines would have you believe, and while the CPC engines are "working on it" - the burden rests squarely on the advertisers' shoulders to identify this kind of costly traffic.
	www.alchemistmedia.com /CPC_Click_Fraud.htm (1359 words)

	Exposing click fraud \| CNET News.com
		Although the extent of click fraud is impossible to measure with any certainty, its persistence has exposed a fundamental weakness in the promising business of Internet search marketing.
		On average, advertisers are paying 45 cents per click this year, according to financial analysts, up from 40 cents in 2003 and 30 cents in the second quarter of 2002.
		A bot would then be trained to click on the ad links that appear on the bogus site, said de Souza, who estimated that click fraud affects 10 percent to 20 percent of today's search network ads.
	news.com.com /Exposing+click+fraud/2100-1024_3-5273078.html (1742 words)

	Click fraud detection
		Click fraud occurs when a person or a programmed script incurs a pay per click charge event for the adverstiser by causing the appearance of a legitimate visitor to your web site.
		Network click fraud occurs when a syndication partner (a smaller publisher or search engine) that receives and displays paid placement or contextual results from a search network engages in the manufacture, creation, or misrepresentation of clicks delivered to its network partner.
		Our click fraud detection is based on a number of measurements taken for each campaign and then a comparison of that data across all other campaigns.
	www.onestat.com /html/click-fraud-detection.html (683 words)

	Bulletin Dec/Jan 2005, Click Fraud, by Brendan Kitts, Benjamin LeBlanc, Ryan Meech and Parameshvyas Laxminarayan
		Click fraud, the intentional clicking on PPC advertisements, where the perpetrator has no intention of buying the products or services advertised, is one of the fastest growing problems on the Internet.
		Clicking on competitors occurs when a company purposely clicks on a competitor so as to cost them money, use up their daily budgets and force them off the auction.
		Network fraud occurs when website owners click on their own banner advertisements in order to generate revenue from the search engine that is serving the banner advertisement.
	www.asis.org /Bulletin/Dec-05/clickfraud.html (1862 words)

	ClickForensics™ - Press Release - MIT Research Study
		Click fraud is generally defined as the practice of artificially inflating Pay Per Click advertisement traffic to defraud advertisers or Web sites that provide venues for advertisers.
		Click Forensics, Inc. is the leading provider of third-party technology and services that help online advertisers, agencies and search providers to better identify and stop Pay Per Click fraud.
		Click Forensics and Click Fraud Network are trademarks of Click Forensics, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
	www.clickforensics.com /news/pressreleases/mitstudy.htm (522 words)

	Yahoo Sued For Spyware-Driven Click Fraud - Technology News by InformationWeek
		Click fraud occurs when a person or software clicks on an online ad for a purpose other than obtaining further information about the advertised product or service.
		Advertising service companies and industry experts put the general prevalence of fraudulent clicks at somewhere between 14% and 30% overall, through it varies depending on the search advertising provider, the nature of the ad campaign, and the way click fraud is defined.
		Tom Cuthbert, president and CEO of click data analysis firm ClickForenics and one of the panelists at the conference, insists that click fraud isn't as well managed as search engines claim.
	www.informationweek.com /news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187200444 (847 words)

	Click fraud roils search advertisers \| CNET News.com
		Click fraud is a reality of the pay-for-performance search industry, an estimated $4 billion to $5 billion market this year.
		For advertisers, click fraud is a particular headache because they must regularly scrutinize their Web traffic and ad campaigns to sniff out thieves, then request refunds from the search engines with which they advertise.
		The fraud is often perpetrated by online robots, or "bots," programmed to click on advertisers' links, so it can be difficult to detect.
	news.com.com /Click+fraud+roils+search+advertisers/2100-1024_3-5600300.html (774 words)

	Click Fraud Index™
		The Click Fraud Index monitors and reports on data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, which more than 4,000 online advertisers and their agencies have joined.
		The average click fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, was 28.1 percent in Q3 2007.
		In Q3 2007, the greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from France (4.2 percent) China (4.1 percent) and Germany (3.7 percent).
	www.clickfraudindex.com (348 words)

	Click fraud a huge problem / Study finds practice widespread; many cut back online ads
		Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prompting many to reduce spending with Google, Yahoo and other Web sites, according to a study to be released today.
		Click fraud occurs when scammers repeatedly click on ads to cause a rival company to be overcharged.
		What looks like an unusual spike in clicks, for example, may actually be the consequence of a particular search term suddenly rising in popularity because of a news event or a holiday.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/05/BUGL6JOQPA1.DTL (1357 words)

	'Click Fraud' Threatens Foundation of Web Ads - washingtonpost.com
		They say the networks fuel click fraud, which means using bogus clicks to pump up revenue artificially for search engines and their affiliated Web sites.
		In the past year, industry analysts say, new forms of click fraud have emerged from the shadows of masked operations into plain view on the Internet.
		Other consultants estimate that click fraud is much larger, perhaps a $1 billion problem affecting 12 percent to 30 percent of all ad clicks.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/21/AR2006102100936.html (677 words)

	Exposing click fraud \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Although the extent of click fraud is impossible to measure with any certainty, its persistence has exposed a fundamental weakness in the promising business of Internet search marketing.
		On average, advertisers are paying 45 cents per click this year, according to financial analysts, up from 40 cents in 2003 and 30 cents in the second quarter of 2002.
		A bot would then be trained to click on the ad links that appear on the bogus site, said de Souza, who estimated that click fraud affects 10 percent to 20 percent of today's search network ads.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5273078.html (2020 words)

	What is click fraud ? - Blog Maverick
		Don referred to the Click Fraud Index. This index is provided by an analytics company which provides software to advertisers to help them determine how much they are getting hit by clickfraud.
		But that is as logical an assertiion as is your seeming belief that it there is something called click fraud, which is based upon the rather magnificient assumption that it might actually be possible to count clicks on the net in the first place.
		"Click Fraud" is a viable topic and something that people need to know that there are those who are working to make them know their money is secure.
	www.blogmaverick.com /2006/04/19/what-is-click-fraud (4695 words)

	USATODAY.com - Click fraud concerns hound Google (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The refunds, which will be provided in the form of advertising credits, are meant to compensate Google's customers for undetected click fraud, which contributed to the $13.3 billion in ad revenue that has poured into the company since 2001.
		Click fraud takes different shapes, but the end result is usually the same: Merchants are billed for fruitless traffic generated by scam artists and mischief makers who repeatedly click on an advertiser's Web link with no intention of buying anything.
		Complicating the click fraud issue even further, search engine advertising isn't subjected to independent auditing like the advertising done in newspapers, magazines and broadcast media.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2006-05-07-google-click-fraud_x.htm (1146 words)

	What is click fraud? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		Click fraud is an illegal practice that occurs when individuals click on Web site click through advertisements (either banner ads or paid text links) to increase the payable number of click throughs to the advertiser.
		The illegal clicks could either be performed by having a person manually click the advertising hyperlinks or by using automated software or Online bots that are programmed to click these banner ads and pay per click text ad links.
		Research has indicated that click fraud is perpetrated by individuals who use click fraud to increase their own personal banner ad revenues and also by companies who use click fraud as a way to deplete a competitor's advertising budget.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/C/click_fraud.html (183 words)

	Click fraud is growing concern \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2005-10-04 \| By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
		Click fraud incidence is unclear, say experts, but it has become a gnawing concern: 70 percent of online advertisers were concerned about the phenomenon or considered it a problem, according to a recent survey from the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization.
		Click fraud occurs when someone clicks on a PPC ad maliciously, without intent to do business with the advertiser.
		It successfully sued one of its affiliates for engaging in click fraud, and it is being sued by an advertiser that charges Google isn't doing enough to curb the problem.
	www.infoworld.com /article/05/10/04/HNclickfraud_1.html (1262 words)

	Click Fraud - Our research
		Click fraud is generally defined as any paid-for click that originates in a malicious attempt to drain an advertiser's budget.
		In the majority of click fraud cases that we have investigated, we have found that click-fraud criminals are using rolling-IP distributed attacks from multiple countries.
		Google has various click fraud screening tools that monitor all click traffic, and they have even more advanced screening tools that their staff uses to identify the source of click fraud.
	www.marketingexperiments.com /ppc-seo-optimization/click-fraud.html (1563 words)

	Click Forensics: Click Fraud Up from Last Quarter · MarketingVOX (Site not responding. Last check: )
		About 14.1 percent of clicks on text ad links are fraudulent, according to a new report scheduled to be released today from Click Forensics, the Associated Press reports.
		Google and Yahoo are better at screening out click fraud than smaller players, according to Click Forensics, but some 12.8 percent of the clicks on Google and Yahoo ads are fraudulent, up from 12.1 percent three months ago, it says.
		As click fraud more media attention, advertisers are demanding refunds and better protection, according to Tom Cuthbert, Click Forensics president.
	www.marketingvox.com /archives/2006/07/17/click_forensics_click_fraud_up_from_last_quarter (203 words)

	ClickZ: New Click Fraud Allegations, With a Twist
		A journalist's investigation into click fraud has unearthed a proliferation of automated click fraud by "botnets," and the alleged involvement of organized crime and terrorist groups.
		The botnets are directed to click on ads owned by an individual or group that has set up a "front" account, with a company and bank account that is not directly related with the terror organization.
		Concern over click fraud continues to grow, with several companies reporting that it is more widespread than Google would have the world believe.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=3624150 (995 words)

	Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown
		The problem is called click fraud, and it comes in two basic flavors.
		That kind of fraud is easy for Google to spot, so the clever network click fraudsters simulate different IP addresses, or install Trojan horses on other people's computers to generate the fake clicks.
		Click fraud has become a classic security arms race.
	www.wired.com /news/columns/0,71370-0.html (907 words)

	How to Eliminate Click Fraud (3 of 3)
		For each ad listed in the Click Fraud report, login into your PPC account and adjust the following attributes to increase the chances of attracting real visitors who are interested in your site.
		Most click fraud comes from ads that are allowed to be listed on syndicated sites.
		If you are receiving clicks from countries that you excluded from the ad campaign, then you are likely experiencing click fraud.
	www.clicktracks.com /insidetrack/articles/click_fraud_how-to_3.php (845 words)

	Click Fraud
		Click fraud is the practice of clicking on pay-per click advertisements to intentionally increase the advertiser’s cost.
		In essence, companies are intentionally clicking on its competitors advertisements for the purpose of increasing it competitors advertising cost.
		Regardless of the method you use to detect click fraud you want to make sure that the information you receive is thorough.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2005spring/law/357c/001/projects/simmonss/click_fraud.htm (403 words)

	Click fraud suit changes hand \| The Register
		Click Defense, a web analytics firm that intiated proceedings against Google in June, alleging that the search engine was failing to stop click fraud, is to be replaced as lead plaintiff in the suit by web hosting firm Advanced Internet Technology (AIT).
		Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs”.
		This was not enough for Click Defense, which in June filed suit, alleging that Google refused to take steps to prevent click fraud, even though the company was well aware of the practice.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2005/12/09/outlaw_click_case (737 words)

	Click Fraud Detection
		Click fraud (or click spamming) is a growing problem today.
		Learn further details about each click on your campaigns that let you identify trends that could be associated with click fraud.
		The data we track is proof of click fraud, and they will be able to use this information to credit your account and help return money lost through click fraud to you.
	www.clickdefense.com /click_fraud.html (587 words)

	Click Fraud - An effective tool to detect and deter click fraud
		Having clicks originating from a foreign country that you receive no business from is often suspected fraud.
		With WCW, you know exactly where your clicks are coming from, down to the country, region, and even the city.
		But there is increasing evidence that some people are clicking on such ads either to run up fees for competitors, to boost the placement of their own ads or to make money for themselves...
	www.whosclickingwho.com (844 words)

	Click Fraud
		Fleischmann is a victim of click fraud: a dizzying collection of scams and deceptions that inflate advertising bills for thousands of companies of all sizes.
		The growing ranks of businesspeople worried about click fraud typically have no complaint about versions of their ads that appear on actual Google or Yahoo Web pages, often next to search results.
		Her e-mails, decorated with smiley faces, suggest to members: "If you could just give a click on something on each page." She owns some of the parked pages, so she gets a share of the revenue when ads on them are clicked.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/06_40/b4003001.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5 (3959 words)

	Click Fraud Is Starting to Scare Marketers - eMarketer
		Click fraud is not much of a concern to individual surfers, but it could become a big problem for marketers and advertisers.
		In a survey of marketers taken late last year, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) found 77% of marketers were concerned about click fraud to some degree.
		For more information on click fraud and other online dangers, and how to protect against them, read eMarketer's Privacy and Security report.
	www.emarketer.com /Article.aspx?1003348 (417 words)

	Click Fraud :Sofizar
		Industry estimates range between 10% to 40% of this figure to be caused by fraudulent clicks.
		According to a Newsweek article, Google and Yahoo are struggling to adjust the definition of "good-faith click" and their policies, and methods of preventing this new type of fraud.
		Such knowledge could provide you the data to combat click fraud and to provide proof to Google that you are being defrauded.
	www.sofizar.com /click-fraud.php (1009 words)

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