Comments on: Common Enemy

By: Amaan Goyal

Amaan Goyal — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:45:43 +0000

Excellent news and a move in the right direction. Our clients have been asking about click fraud and this allows us to answer that highly volatile question with ease.

By: DaveL

DaveL — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:42:59 +0000

My experience is that advertisers still need to fend for themselves and carefully monitor their PPC campaigns. As long as there is content syndication there will be click fraud. My experience as both an advertiser and developer of click fraud auditing software is that there is MUCH that both Y!SM and Google could do that are not done. There is too much revenue at stake.

By: joedc

joedc — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:10:38 +0000

Thanks for the advice about click counter I am new to this web stuff but I had been paying google about 500.00/month and stoped. yahoo i just started I did not realize that there was a problem with click fraud thanks for the info.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:17:01 +0000

Advertising is a tough game-Click fraud has been more prevelant than ever,and we’re all paying as business owners for those that are dishonest.We’re darned if we do and darned if we don’t because everyone has gone to using the internet,a cost we didn’t have before.It’s also given us good and bad exposure that we didn’t have before.
I have personally asked several times for Yahoo and Google to investigate incidences where I knew click fraud was evident and that someone was clicking a thousand times on my website,only to be told that I had a small credit coming,when I was paying a large percentage for fraudlent clicks,literally thousands of dollars.
There needs to be legislation to regulate the fact that we can only be charged for one click per ip address per day.We also need to be able to block those IP’s.
I hope Click Forensics helps this issue and this isn’t a way to charge more per minimum CPC because supposedly the’quality’of our clicks are better.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:08:00 +0000

Advertising is a tough game,Click fraud has been more preverlant than ever,and we are all paying for those that are dishonest.I have personally asked several times for Yahoo and Google to investigate incidences wherew

By: FLV player

FLV player — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:48:36 +0000

nice move. It is a step forward compare to Google, hope Yahoo can earn market share in paid advertising

By: Raji

Raji — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:45:57 +0000

Peace of mind lets you work better achieving best results. We appreciate Great Services at Esteemed Search Engine YAHOO.

By: Fred Parker

Fred Parker — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:08:18 +0000

Why am I so suspicious? After reading the comments above it is pretty clear that there are problems mainly by click fraud generated by competitors paying a third party to click onto your advertisment mostly from a content matching site ad. Often these are machine generated in foreign countries India and Bulgaria but sometimes not. The partnership with Click Forensics could well add a further layer of Corporate protection treacle between Advertisers and Yahoo who can now say “Well Click Forensics did not find anything wrong so the charges will stand” Now that minimum bids can be raised to such extortinate levels the 15% acknowledgedd fraud will generate a tempting pool of cash telephone numbers infact. How tempting is that? Yes we should be afraid, Very afraid.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:36 +0000

I think I should get a reprt daily on the IP adresses that click on my ad…. Let me tell you if I suspect click froud as well as this new protection program.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:56:23 +0000

About Time. I have been cheated by Yahoo in January for nearly $1000. When I asked for help, BIG SUPRISE! They found no problems. However, I had 25% of the amount of clicks before, and am back to 25% of the clicks now.