Facebook click fraud 101
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Here's probably what happened: FB identified certain IP addresses they considered committing clickfraud. These IPs were likely scraping the adboard. Based on how many times these IPs clicked your ads is probably the refund amount. So, if you were on the adboard a lot you got more. I got 13%. Almost shit my pants.
The $4 rebate on 10k spend was nice, but sadly the click fraud continues on facebook - i keep trying (and keep failing) to make money on facebook. Definitely greener pastures out there, I'm finding.
Yeah definitely much better traffic sources out there. FB is perfect when you have no money since you can start with next to nothing but there is much better stuff out there if you just look around.
If you are doing what everyone else is doing (FB advertising) it's much harder to make money.
although im actually getting the correct total for clicks (some times more) there is still 15-20% fraud going on. No referer/ doesn't hit network, multiple clicks, bullshit traffic.
Good job fixing it Failbook. A month plus and counting.
Good job fixing it Failbook. A month plus and counting.
even before the entire click fraud issue became an issue I was getting 20% duplicate clicks - sucked when I was getting paid for every unique click I sent
ORLY?
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I think we should do everything possible to get a strong class-action suit going against FB, nothing like the threat of legal action to make them take click fraud seriously.
I got 20% of my money back. My EPC was a joke and 20% is pretty large so I guess I had an insane amount of fraud.
News to some people (probably not to others): I was chatting with my COPEAC AM at the summit and my AM mentioned out of the blue that the AM's at COPEAC during their free time usually browse facebook, and click on ads all day long. (They have both the male and female AM's doing this, to see the targeted ads.)
Just thought I would let you know; does anyone have the COPEAC office ip?
Just thought I would let you know; does anyone have the COPEAC office ip?
Now imagine 50 other companies asking their employees to check out all the advertisements on facebook, I'm sure that stacks up to a fair chunk of change. It's a shame but of course it's to be expected, they most likely use a few of the best ones for their personal use on top of that.
I'm sure other networks are doing this as well. I had one occurrence that confirmed another network was clicking my ads. (they emailed me about one of my ads)
Though I'm sure it doesn't make up a significant amount of click fraud, it's still kinda annoying.
Though I'm sure it doesn't make up a significant amount of click fraud, it's still kinda annoying.
