How Google Adsense Tracks For Click Fraud?
You must be wondering how google can tracks all invalid clicks from your website. Google has its own algorithm to analyst for invalid clicks and click frauds from your website. Anything is possible to trigger the red flag for generating invalid clicks.
Why do google do this? They wants to terminate all user who attempt for click fraud. This is to protect their advertisers.
Please remember never attempt to cheat google.
Google is always smarter than you.
Some of the method that Google uses to track for invalid clicks.
1. IP Address
If those clicks on your ads are originated from the same IP Address as the one used for accessing your AdSense account, your account is flagged.
2. Click Through Rate (CTR)
Normally, CTR should not exceed 10%. Otherwise, Google will flag your account. For your information, normal CTR should ranges from 0.5% – 10%.
3. Physical Location
Google has good tracing software and technology. They can trace traffics origin down to the small town. So, using different computers with different IP address does not secure anything. So, don’t try to click your ads in various internet cafes.
4. Cookies
Most home users do not use static IP Address for Internet connection. In most cases just disconnect and reconnect will give you a new IP Address. But don’t forget, Google has set cookies on your computer. They can trace these cookies and see whether they originate from the same computer.
5. Click Pattern 1
It is also suspicious when people click on their clicks and then run away immediately (hit-and-run). But normally, people will surf for a while inside your pages and then click on the ads they want.
6. Click Pattern 2
Why this computer / IP address / person is so trigger-click-happy on this particular website but never click on the ads on other sites?
7. Click Pattern 3
Why is it that people accessing these sites direct (type-in URL or from bookmark) tend to be very active in clicking the ads compared with those referred from search engine or other sites?
8.Other Google Services
Apart from Google Adsense, Google also provide a series of services to us. Don’t just think that it is safe if you do not log in your adsense account and click on your ads. What other Google services do they provide to us? Here are some: Gmail (most poeple are using it), Google Earth, Google Calendar, Google Search, Google Toolbar, Google Talk, Google Sitemap, Google Desktop, Blogger, or even Youtube
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Thank you for the great info. I always wondered about that.