How To Detect Fraudulent Click Activity And Prevent It?

Click fraud can drain marketing budgets and negatively impact Google Ads campaigns. Learn more about the problem and how to prevent it.

Does anyone have a good strategy for understanding if your ads are getting fraudulently clicked on by competitors or spam traffic without using third-party apps like ClickCease? If so, how can we try to combat this issue? Thanks for your suggestions. Okay. You will never be able to get rid of invalid clicks. That's what Google likes to term it. Just like every shopkeeper in the world will try to minimize or stop people stealing from the shops. No matter how many cameras or security they put in, people will get away with stealing stuff. Even banks get robbed, right? with So much security. You can minimize it absolutely by using third-party apps, but you'll never be able to completely get rid of it.

So the way to do this is, first of all, you look at potentially the IP addresses and if you find that there are a lot of clicks coming from the same IP address, then you can block it. Now, those spammers and those people will never use the same IP, they are going to use different IPs all the time to obviously counter combat the ClickCease and the apps which block invalid clicks. So what you want to do is to do that and then look at your keywords and the search terms when they come through to your landing page or your website. If they are bouncing off within 3 seconds, or 5 seconds, then you know that you get a lot of spammy and irrelevant traffic.

Then you need to think about does that keyword have intent or not? Another good way we have found of reducing and minimizing spam is using long-tail keywords. And that way, although you will get less traffic to your site, you'll get high-intent traffic. So try to go for long-tail keywords, three, four, and five keywords, and see if that makes any difference. The other way you can do that is through video ads and Display or Display Network has got the same problem as well. But if you keep a very close eye on it and exclude all those spammy placements, you can get some very low-cost but high-quality traffic to your site at a fraction of the cost.

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