Comments on: Advertising “Click Fraud” Rampant Online

By: LJP

LJP — Wed, 12 May 2010 00:28:53 +0000

I get these messages on BlogCatalog and I just ignore them. When I check my stats, they haven’t clicked on any ads at all. I don’t know what scam they are running but I certainly won’t be participating!

By: Improve Search Engine Ranking

Improve Search Engine Ranking — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:36:59 +0000

Personally I prefer the organic type of promoting a website instead of doing the paid listings. Aside from being costly, the effect of PPC is just over a short period of time.

By: Xaivier

Xaivier — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:02:46 +0000

Nothing is impossible nowadays. Spams are everywhere in internal. What we can do is just ignore them. I received a lot of such kind of message. Guess what!! just click spam on them^^

By: Comedy Plus

Comedy Plus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:23:20 +0000

I don’t do ads at all, but I get lots of folks who tell me that they clicked on my ads and they want me to click on theirs in return. Of course I don’t. If there’s a way to beat the system you will find many that are doing just that.

Have a terrific day.

By: MountainWoman

MountainWoman — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:24:55 +0000

Interesting article. I get these messages all the time and I always ignore them. I agree with you. I don’t understand why anyone would jeopardize a chance to legitimately earn money.

By: turnip

turnip — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:20:28 +0000

Any time I see a spammy blog without Adsense, I know they got busted for click fraud. Adsense if by far the best paying pay per click program. Likewise, when I advertise through Adwords, I never used content based ads, I use search results only instead. I don’t want anything to do with “made for adsense” blogs. Even with search results, most of my clicks came from competitors trying to drive me away from their keywords. I even caught Google itself clicking my ads using a foreign IP address, no doubt based upon competitor complaints. As soon as I blocked that foreign IP from that campaign, my keyword got suspended, surprise! When Google can charge your account for their own employee investigation clicks, they set a bad example for publishers.

By: Denford

Denford — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:35:37 +0000

I advocate Google and Yahoo dropping PPC altogether and instead going with the route of paying according to impressions. This way, the sites that expose the brand to the most users gets the most money i.e, the most visited and popular sites become profitable.

After all, this was the original and almost foolproof way to advertise (newspapers and magazines get advertising based on the number of their readers for instance).

By: Evan's Mom

Evan's Mom — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:23:57 +0000

I started to get those messages from Blog Catalog members even before I had Adsense on my blog. I usually just ignored them.

I also got the same messages on my Cbox, now I already uninstalled it from my blog.

By: Emm

Emm — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:54:32 +0000

Looking at your Google ads in the sidebar, I’d say that Google only have themselves to blame for this!! All of the ads had to do with things like “pay per click mastery”. Google needs to get a lot more strict on the type of ads they authorise.

By: Melo

Melo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:52:29 +0000

Never click on your own Google Ads and never participate in any ad click exchanges.

By: StarMars

StarMars — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:32:29 +0000

I also get these messages from BlogCatalog. They’re few though so it’s not much of a problem. Just ignore and leave them alone.

Merry Christmas!

By: Man Over Board

Man Over Board — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:11:53 +0000

I can’t agree with you more. I have to say Blog Catalog and MyBlogLog are the worst offenders, but like Paul said I just ignore them and delete them. I should block them also, but sometimes just to lazy too. Great subject.

By the way I don’t even use Google, I believe they have to much of a God complex, but either way, I only click on an ad or widget because I want to know more. Except of course for EC and Adgitized. Boy how I would love not to have to click them also, but it is a necessary evil

A Happy Holiday to you and yours and also your readers, you have an outstanding blog and is on my very top of my favs. Glenn

By: Martin@Cornyman's Money-Blog

Martin@Cornyman's Money-Blog — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:48:55 +0000

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!

Let’s hope that these BC-Members don’t destroy our hopes in receiving some Adsense funds when the time has come… usually you get banned when you left 20 – 30 $ from the 100$…

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:39:23 +0000

I get a lot of these messages at BlogCatalog. Funny thing: I checked the statistics of my advertisers, there weren’t any clicks registered. I received identical messages from one guy several days in a row. He stopped once I told him I would ban him. I never answer the messages or clicked the ads in response to the messages.

By: Tina T

Tina T — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:27:36 +0000

I agree with Paul, I get them very often from BC also. I remove them as friends, but I guess I should block them also. Funny thing is that I even get these messages for my blogs that don’t have PPC ads, so I guess they mass generate this message but aren’t clicking anyway.