The truth – Adsense click fraud can not be stopped
Your probably reading this article because you use Google Adwords to bring traffic to your website or perpetrators of fraud, click it, wanting to see what kind of information I have for you. Most of you click fraudsters will think that I have no idea what I'm talking about, and I do not know your methods. Well, trust me friend, I know all about you and what you do.
If you are new to the scene click fraud, here's an example:
1. Scumbag puts Google Adsense ads on your website.
2. The scumbag then proceeds to cheat Google Adsense by creating false clicks and impressions, in return earning him a nice profit, because even working on their website, only generate bogus traffic.
All of you people that run campaigns through Google Adwords are thinking, "This guy has no idea what he is talking, Google has everything under control and even state so publicly! "
WOW! What kind of pay per click company Pets NOT have click fraud under control? I wonder what would happen to your business immediately after that statement.
Estimates say that about 20% of all clicks for Adsense are illegitimate. In my humble opinion I believe this number to be around 30-35% of some of the things I've seen.
Alrite, Now the big question, how are you doing that?
There are a number of ways that are misleading people, including groups, click 'on' India to click your ads for you and create big pay checks as long as they pay their $ 0.50 per hour to buy bread for his family.
But I'll show you the technical way that Google Adsense is cheated, not poor who click ads. I'm talking about extremely smart programmers created to deceive hitbots Adsense. And NO, I'm not talking about that piece of garbage 'CACA' or Clicking Agent that you find on Google. I'm talking about private programs and scripts that only are used by private groups.
How do these scripts away undetected you ask?
Simple, really let's take a look the protection of Google's click fraud (This is what I have outlined, seriously do not think they have no other protection because people are cheating using these methods as you read this article.)
If you really look at Google AdSense and code when you are on your website URL is used to retrieve ads. (Click Clck your ad Iframe and click on "View page info 'or something similar.)
Here is a example of the direction that you will find:
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-252 1202633232871 & dt = 1124847235453 & LMT = 1124631699 & format = 468×60_as and ou tput = html & url = http% 3A% 2F% 2F% 2Fwww.yoursite.com color_bg ECF8FF lor_text & = & co = 000000 & color_link = 0033FF & color_url = 0033FF & color_border = D DAAA & cc = 59 & y = 768 u_h u_w = 1024 & u_ah = 738 & u_aw = 1024 & u_cd u_tz =- = 32 & 240 & u_java = true
Now let's decode this a bit, okay?
client = ca-pub-2521202633232871 – Your code client, this tells Google who to assign the click-through money.
dt = 1124847235453 – Javascript, if you use the new command google_date Date = (); document.write (Google_date.getTime ()) — which generates 1124847235453.
This shows that the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 Midnite. This is what appears to be automated Google's largest proxy clicker fraud prevention. It does not seem too difficult to generate with 2 lines of code now does it?
LMT = 1124631699 – The last time your website has been updated. LMT stands for Last Modified Time, pretty easy Javascript to generate this one too – document.write (document.lastModified) — Which generates 1124631699.
(Note that I'm jumping a lot, that's because they are simply showing the type of ad, colors and size you are using.)
cc = 59 – seems to be a random number based on screen width, height and color scheme. I have seen this number go from 20 all the way up 400. I'm sure you do not use this to reliably track click fraud.
u_h = 768 – Height of your screen settings.
u_w = 1024 – Width of the configuration of your screen.
u_ah = 738 – Your available screen height.
u_aw = 1024 – Your screen width available.
u_cd = 32 – Color scheme on windows, for example, 32-bit.
u_tz =- 240 – Your monitor refresh rate or other which is not important, I've never seen no -240.
u_java = true – Just seeing if you have java enabled.
There are some other variables that are times in the direction as "u_his = 'this means the number of pages you've visited since you started your browser. There are also some checks MIME type and how many plugins you have installed, but they rarely reach variables. I think we are only meant for Netscape / Firefox.
Now that we have "Decoded" the supposed unbeatable Google Adsense code, what do you think about click fraud? I still think is weird?
After randomizing all the data and sending an automated query to their Adsense URL, all the bastard have to do is look out all the URLs Google click and click one of them, giving him a click through. All this can be easily forged, even with a Visual Basic program. A novice programmer could in-fact cheat Google Adsense without much knowledge.
Alrite you say, they beat the javascript code detection but does not Google use cookies to prevent them from doing this?
No, Google does not use cookies for Adsense.
Well what about IP tracking? A person does not can have that many proxies!
There are click groups that leave these programs running on your computer. Each one of them at random, click the other URL automatically. The person running the program does not even have to do anything, but still contribute to the success of his group and himself.
Do you think too far-fetched? I'm telling you there are groups who click on this now and have been since the days of old Linkshare PPC in 1999. Yes, if you were an advertiser on the back Linkshare around 1999-2002, you got raped.
And that's not all. I have read on the Internet that currently more than 100,000 people living in the States U.S. alone with trojan proxy servers. These proxy servers run on random ports so that Google just can not do a simple port 8080 or 80 check on it to see if it is a proxy. Most of these proxy servers are used for credit card fraud, but many of them are also used to deceive Google Adsense and other pay per click programs. These powers are home users who appear normal dialup, cable, DSL and users from around the world but above all the United States. There is no way to prove they are a proxy.
Random-User Agent strings is another tactic often used by fraudsters click. This makes Google think that a lot of browsers are clicking on links, just keep away from finding the truth.
On a side note, you could be thinking that the new Yahoo! Pay-per-click in the program may be the way forward. I checked into their protection and guess what? They are only using one of the protections of Google and is the GetTime Javascript. They are still in beta though and this may change, but who knows?
To the cheaters: The benefits of cheating are short. Over time you will be caught by what he is doing and maybe even sued by Google. There is a ton of money to be made legally with Adsense and I suggest you stop cheating. Who am I to tell you to stop? I use to be one of you! When I was 13-14 I was doing programs as you are using now. You probably used one of my programs at once. I am happy to say that those days of mine are all in the past now and I'm doing a lot of money legally with Adsense and other affiliate programs. Work hard guys and you will reap the benefits 100 times what cheat.
For advertisers: You that use Google Adwords now see that it's really not very hard to cheat your money, so be careful and make sure you use a sequence command, click fraud protection as ClickDefense. To lower most of your click fraud, but do not put ads on the content network, only stay in sponsored search results from Google. Only Google gets paid when someone clicks on the search results sponsored ads and nobody wants to cheat more money that Google is not it? Check the population, is currently 279.58 per share.
To summarize my article I just want to say that no one should use this information for cheating Adsense and I am not responsible for your actions if you choose to. You will be caught because Google will evolve and become more intelligent over time.
About the Author
Joseph Tierney is 2005 high school graduate, internet marketer,
and surfer. He runs the Auction Fraud
Protection website – http://www.stopauctionfraud.com
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