3 Ways to Protect Your Blog from Click fraud!
Hope you read the post titled “Can I Block Your AdSense Account? Yes, I Can! Sharing How?”. If not Do it now! So, let’s learn how to protect our blogs from this click fraud. These tips are only for small scale business blogs and personal blog.
Let’s come to the point directly. As you know how important is your Adsense, hope you also understood how important is to protect it as well. There are only 3 ways to protect as far as I know. Among the 3, 2 are free ways and other being paid service. Here are those…
Monitor Incoming IP’s: An abnormal number of clicks from the same IP is the sign of click fraud directly. Monitor your traffic once in a week at least. watch the IP’s versus clicks/visits generation. If you found any IP with suspicious behavior, that’s may be the IP which can block your Ad network account. Make this as a practice and protect yourself.
Handover suspicious guys: Make the practice of reporting suspicious behaviors to search engines and ad networks. This can protect you and others as well.
Hire a watchdog: There are many paid services out there, who can watch your blog moments round the clock. If you’re a fast growing blog owner and found any suspicious behaviors around, then better to contact one of those guys to monitor you. For example, PPCTrax.com is one of the service handling 30 or more clients already. Billing starts from the cost $30 for small scale businesses.
There are many other big guns making use of these services already. Let me give you couple of names for example, online news leader’s bbc.com and Reuters.com are among them who are using the services already to protect themselves.
First 2 things are free and suitable for us. What do you say? Any other tips you want to add? Let’s share together! Happy Blogging!
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@ Bloggertalk,
Thats true, its costly. But how can you it won’t effect small scale people.
Google don’t even listen to small blog authors about the click fraud. They will directly block the a/c.
Where as big blogs and companies can fight back with Google with all the proofs they gathered about the fraud clicks.
Thanks for your opinion dude.
Thanks for the tips.
I currently use a plugin which helps me integrate Adsense in my blog. It also help me see if there is any click fraud i.e. too many clicks from 1 IP. I can block them manually. No Adsense will be shown to them thus no more click frauds and I am safe.
@ Agent,
Ohh is that. It would be great if you share that plugin with us. I’m interested to see how it works.
Is there any free Tools to monitor Adsense account.
Is the Pubmatic is an option for the same (www.pubmatic.com)
Its a cruel thing that publishers Banned due to other people activity.
I think google can eaisly find the fraud clicks (I mean not by the Publisher,
by the other people).
Google can set a warning system to the Publishers for simple mistakes.
@ Indian Television Media News,
I don’t know about the Pubmatic service dude. But you’re true that Google should need to give at least a warn message about the click fraud before blocking the account.
Monitor Incoming IP’s, How can Do this, Through cpanel or ?.
Thanks for the tips Lax. One should be very careful about the issue.
Great tips here i found. I read your recent article and waiting for these tips to avoid the click fraud.
Good that you followed the last post. Thanks for sharing all dis man.
@TJG,
Thanks for regular comments dude. Keep rocking..
@ Bryan,
Thanks for your first comments dude. I’m interested in completing the series all the time. Keep rocking mate.
Nice post. You should check this script:
asRep MySQL Evaluation Version 1.43
The trial version works fine.
How to track invalid clicks on our ads?
@ Avish,
Thanks for that dude…
@ Nihar,
As far as i know we can’t track now. As a prevention we can buy/hire some s/w to track the results daily.
If you found anything,Pls share it with us!
Hi
in ur comments Agent001 is talking of a plugin for Adsense..can u share that plugin with all so that it wud be useful for all
I usually check from my web Hosting’s stat program (awstats) to get the suspicious IP adress if I detected some unusual invalid clicks.
Good way too. You can use any other services also to make sure your awstats is working
Thanks for the information, i was not knowing we can hire a watchdog also, but i am not sure how will it work, i will see the site you have listed above. I was wondering what kind of technology they will use to watch ?
and here the ways by which my competitor can protect themselves…u should not have written this my competitor will now take care of me from banning me
…a very good post
It takes too long which means we need to spend time to monitor all these. It’s wasting our time
is there any free service to monitor clicks
How to find this ip involved in click fraud ?