What is Click Fraud?

I'm not sure if a blog is good or bad, but there are things that have affiliate ads attached to everything, even though it's not necessary. I feel like that is a kind of click fraud.

Click fraud that threatens online advertising
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Click fraud is carried out for two main purposes. One is to raise the advertising costs of rival companies and damage them. The other is to inflate clicks and make pocket money with affiliate programs like AdSense. As a means, there are a method of gathering human hands and intensively clicking the advertisement, and a method of automatically clicking with software or the like.

I think the former is good, but it's easy to say that it's easy because it finds and clicks on the ad accurately, and above all, there is no need to develop new software or combine scripts. hey)

It's probably from the Google blackmail incident in March last year that it became popular in the news. A man who tried to threaten $ 100,000 from Google was arrested on suspicion of blackmail for distributing a program that automatically clicks ads to spammers. I'm not sure if this guy actually made the program, but such a click program seems to exist and is called 'hitbots'.

It seems that you can do it if you devise automatic operation software ...

In addition, for manual clicks, human wave tactics such as part-time jobs are used. The Indian English-language newspaper 'THE TIMES OF INDIA' reported in May this year that it was a black business that clicked on advertisements on the Web. Housewives, students, and office workers simply click on ads to get rewards, paying 18 to 25 cents per click, and earning $ 100 to $ 200 a month in part-time jobs. It is said that.

It's a little job you can do at home (bitter smile)

Of course, search service companies are also victims of click fraud. Last November, Google filed a lawsuit against a website operator called Auctions Expert International for damages. According to the complaint, the company hired 50 people to click on ads and unfairly earned $ 50,000 in ad sales. In addition to refunding compensation, Google is seeking damages and court fines.

In fact, I'm pretty much clicking on ads that appear in Google search results. I would be grateful if you could quickly display the advertisement you want. Apart from that, I'm not going to do any damage to the other company by clicking indiscriminately (omitted)