Legal: Clickfraud
AdWords Click Fraud Service Found Using Google’s Trademark, Promoting Itself On YouTube
How’s this for brazen? For at least two years, a Russian hacker has been running a cheekily-named click fraud service called GoodGoogle,...
How A PPC Fraud Ring Impersonated 300+ Advertisers In May 2014
Did you know that your paid search ads are susceptible to the same type of fraud that affects other forms of digital advertising? And...
Report: Click Fraud Rate Drops to 19.1% In Q4 2010
Click Forensics quarterly report on overall click fraud was released for the fourth quarter of 2010. They said the click fraud rate dropped from...
Report: Click Fraud Rate Rises to 22.3% In Q3 2010
Click Forensic’s quarterly assessment of overall click fraud rates for the paid search industry says that click fraud has increased to...
Report: Click Fraud Rate Up To 18.6 Percent
Click Forensics released their report on the overall click fraud rates for the paid search industry. They said click fraud was up from 17.4...
Report: Click Fraud Rate For Q2 2010 28.9%
Anchor Intelligence released their latest click fraud report claiming the click fraud rate for the second quarter of 2010 was 28.9%. That is...
Google Sued For Click Fraud By Seattle Locksmith
Mediapost reports that Google has been sued by 123 Lock & Key, a Seattle based locksmith company over click fraud. Mediapost said this is...
Microsoft Sues For Click Laundering
In a continuing effort to battle click fraud, Microsoft puts legal motions into place to stop “click laundering”. Microsoft said the...
Report: Click Fraud Rate At Highest Rate
Anchor Intelligence released their click fraud report today, reporting that click fraud has reached an all time high. The “Attempted Click...
Harvard Professor Details New, ‘Insidious’ Form Of Google Click Fraud
One of Google’s more vocal critics says the company should cut its ties with InfoSpace over what he calls “a particularly insidious...
Yahoo Pay Per Click Settlement Details Goes Out To Advertisers
This morning, many Yahoo advertisers received an email from Rust Consulting letting them know, they are included in a legal settlement over...
Click Fraud Rise Or Fall? Click Fraud 22.9% Or 12.7%
Today, I received two click fraud reports from two different companies. The first was from Anchor Intelligence and the second was from Click...
Microsoft Taking Click Fraud Battle To Court
The New York Times reports that Microsoft is taking the click fraud battle to court. “Microsoft filed the civil complaint on Monday in...
Does Including A Physical Address On Your Website Help Rankings?
As businesses become more virtual in organization and structure, and more workers become digital nomads, the question of whether having a...
Click Fraud Rate Hits Highest Level Yet
Click fraud is worse today than ever according to an announcement from tracking company Click Forensics. Click Forensics estimates the overall...
Estimated Click Fraud Rate Remains At 16%, Says Click Forensics
Click Forensics has released their estimated 3rd quarter click fraud numbers that they track. The numbers remain pretty much the same, at least...
Google Now Working With Click Forensics
Google allies with click-fraud-detection firm Click Forensics from ComputerWorld reports Google has now agreed to work with Click Forensics to...
