Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'click-fraud'

Yahoo, historically, has always been perceived as a company that took click fraud seriously. In fact, they launched the Traffic Quality Center in 2007 to make that statement. In addition, we have seen examples of Yahoo refunding money to advertisers...

Posted on June 12, 2008 7:47 AM

In the first quarter of 2008, Click Forensics announced that click fraud has decreased across Google and Yahoo to 27.8% (from 28.3% in Q4 2007). Is that a number to be worried about? As Barry says on Search Engine Land,...

Posted on April 28, 2008 9:10 AM

Bigreds, an internet retailer has decided to sue Yahoo for $1 million over click fraud starting back in 2002. Yahoo offered Bigreds $17,000 back, but Bigreds wants more and they are suing for over $1 million in damages and penalties....

Posted on April 17, 2008 7:56 AM

According to numerous reports, including a post at Search Engine Land, if you've advertised on Ask.com between August 2005 and now, you're entitled to reimbursement for any suspected invalid clicks. Those who are entitled to the settlement money will be...

Posted on January 4, 2008 9:30 AM

What are your biggest concerns and complaints about Google AdSense? Numerous forum members have provided feedback regarding what they feel are the biggest hurdles to AdSense. For example, many are not too keen on smart pricing which relates to lack...

Posted on November 27, 2007 7:36 AM

Forbes has published an article about the concerns regarding click fraud. Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google's click fraud czar, says that Google is throwing out less than 10% clicks to accommodate any invalid clicks so that advertisers are not billed for these...

Posted on September 17, 2007 10:04 AM

The Yahoo! Search Marketing blog has just announced the launch of a brand new tool, the Traffic Quality Center. The goal of the Traffic Quality Center is to combat click-fraud, learn about traffic quality, and access tips and information regarding...

Posted on August 9, 2007 8:50 AM

AdSensePro of Google starts off an interesting discussion in a Google Groups pointing the community to a recent post made in the Inside AdSense blog. In the blog post, the AdSense team says that it is not permitted to encourage...

Posted on May 18, 2007 9:38 AM

Google came out and finally gave us some numbers. 0.02 Percent of Clicks Pass Through Google's Fraud Detector: Our Click Quality team investigates every inquiry we receive from advertisers who believe they may have been affected by undetected click fraud....

Posted on March 1, 2007 7:56 AM

The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were able to discuss in detail about half of the topics I wanted. We discussed SES Chicago, Andy's click fraud rate, AdWords quality score tests, holiday updates by...

Posted on December 13, 2006 11:17 AM

There is a lot of buzz over Andy Beal's Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2%. In short, Shuman Ghosemajumder of Google sat down with Andy and explained to him how to get these figures. Andy recently updated...

Posted on December 12, 2006 7:48 AM

In late July Google's $90 Million Click Fraud Settlement was Approved and we now have reports via various forums that Google advertisers are now receiving the payouts. WebmasterWorld has a two page thread with some comments; Got my $6.45 wohhooo!...

Posted on November 1, 2006 8:06 AM

And this weeks 'Armageddon For Paid Search' subject is... Click Fraud (according to the Washington Post). OK, maybe not put that strongly, although the mainstream newspaper does go to quite some length to unravel the underground world of paid to...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on October 23, 2006 8:38 AM

Have you received an email notifying you of a settlement by Yahoo! with Checkmate? "A proposed Settlement has been reached in a class action proceeding alleging that Yahoo! breached its contracts with Class Persons and committed unfair business practices by...

Posted on August 16, 2006 7:23 AM

A reminder that if you want to receive a credit and join the class action lawsuit against Google. You can earn part of the $60M pot 'deserved' to Google AdWords advertisers who feel they have received "invalid clicks." To submit...

Posted on August 3, 2006 8:39 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread notes of a BusinessWeek report that Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are coming together to form standards on what is an "invalid click." The Internet's leading search engines are teaming up with an advertising trade group to...

Posted on August 3, 2006 7:52 AM