Comments on: Less Than 5% Click Fraud Makes You “Virtually Free” http://searchengineland.com/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Simon Chernin http://searchengineland.com/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045/comment-page-1#comment-2084 Simon Chernin Tue, 15 May 2007 00:20:25 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045.php#comment-2084 ABCSearch only accepts publishers with legitimate traffic and does not discriminate against anyone based on number of visitors or how you've heard of us. Yahoo and Google make the content providers jump through hoops, ABCSearch aggregates smaller publishers while upholding quality for the advertisers. We welcome anyone to see the quality for themselves with a free $100 in traffic: <a href="http://www.abcsearch.com/cgi-bin/referadvfree.pl?referrerId=selb" rel="nofollow">http://www.abcsearch.com/cgi-bin/referadvfree.pl?referrerId=selb</a> ABCSearch only accepts publishers with legitimate traffic and does not discriminate against anyone based on number of visitors or how you’ve heard of us. Yahoo and Google make the content providers jump through hoops, ABCSearch aggregates smaller publishers while upholding quality for the advertisers. We welcome anyone to see the quality for themselves with a free $100 in traffic: http://www.abcsearch.com/cgi-bin/referadvfree.pl?referrerId=selb

]]> By: Matt Cutts http://searchengineland.com/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045/comment-page-1#comment-2083 Matt Cutts Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:24:47 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045.php#comment-2083 It's interesting to me which part of a story will attract your eye. I checked out the press release at <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=242908" rel="nofollow">http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=242908</a> and had forgotten that Daniel Yomtobian was the CEO of ABCSearch. It’s interesting to me which part of a story will attract your eye. I checked out the press release at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=242908
and had forgotten that Daniel Yomtobian was the CEO of ABCSearch.

]]> By: crimsongirl http://searchengineland.com/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045/comment-page-1#comment-2082 crimsongirl Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:31:08 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045.php#comment-2082 Ha, I got so many questionable clicks from abcsearch.com (when I used Ask's advertising platform most of the clicks came from abcsearch), that as an experiment I applied to become an affiliate. I took one of my sites that gets maybe 15 visitors/month and applied for it to be an abcsearch.com affiliate. On the questionairre it asked "where will you get traffic from" and I wrote: friends and family. I thought this was so outlandish they could never accept me, but to my surprise, my application was approved! They will take anyone. Ha, I got so many questionable clicks from abcsearch.com (when I used Ask’s advertising platform most of the clicks came from abcsearch), that as an experiment I applied to become an affiliate. I took one of my sites that gets maybe 15 visitors/month and applied for it to be an abcsearch.com affiliate. On the questionairre it asked “where will you get traffic from” and I wrote: friends and family.

I thought this was so outlandish they could never accept me, but to my surprise, my application was approved! They will take anyone.

]]> By: AndrewGoodman http://searchengineland.com/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045/comment-page-1#comment-2081 AndrewGoodman Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:28:02 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/less-than-5-click-fraud-makes-you-virtually-free-11045.php#comment-2081 Fraud protection or not, as 4-5 years ago, the best place for an advertiser to start their research is here: <a href="http://www.abcsearch.com/advertisers.php?sec=network" rel="nofollow">http://www.abcsearch.com/advertisers.php?sec=network</a> It looks like the ABC network is a combination of low-volume, "OK" partners, and a number of questionable, low quality partners. Is it worth the bother? Many advertisers will conclude no, and assume that if the click fraud is being filtered, then the remainder of the traffic will amount to a handful of decent clicks mixed in with the lowest quality clicks the network feels they can get away with selling. Fraud protection or not, as 4-5 years ago, the best place for an advertiser to start their research is here:

http://www.abcsearch.com/advertisers.php?sec=network

It looks like the ABC network is a combination of low-volume, “OK” partners, and a number of questionable, low quality partners.

Is it worth the bother? Many advertisers will conclude no, and assume that if the click fraud is being filtered, then the remainder of the traffic will amount to a handful of decent clicks mixed in with the lowest quality clicks the network feels they can get away with selling.

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