Click Fraud Network

The Click Fraud Network is a community of online advertisers, agencies and search providers working together to discuss ideas, share best practices, and work closely to develop industry standards and solutions to the click fraud problem. Click Fraud Network members receive free basic access to Click Forensics click fraud reporting system which provides campaign reports detailing click fraud threat level by keyword and search provider. Additionally, the Click Fraud Network publishes aggregate data using the Click Fraud Index. This information helps members identify trends and communicate with each other about this growing issue. Join today and help us work together to solve the click fraud problem.
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  • Re: Click Fraud vs Click Quality - What's the difference?

    Web Searching Evolves with the Launch of InverSearch FREDERICK, Md., June 23, 2008 -- Take the typical Internet search and turn it on its ear. The result is InverSearch (http://www.inversearch.com), the new, patent-pending Internet search engine that’s like no other search engine before it.Officially launched today, InverSearch inverts the ...
    Posted to Click Fraud 101 (Forum) by inversearch on August 16, 2008
  • Click fraud - can someone please count the ways?

    I've been in and around online advertising since 1994 in some form or another. I spent the last few years in the private sector and I was surprised to hear that click fraud was such a big issue now that I've come out from under a rock. To be perfectly honest, when I saw the link to the ClickFraudNetwork, I only clicked because in my mind I said, ...
    Posted to Click Fraud 101 (Forum) by gregaspen on February 15, 2008
  • The Click Fraud "State of the Union"

    Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg recently published a story with dueling perspectives from my friend Shuman, of Google, and me highlighting our differing views of the click fraud problem. It got me thinking about how far the community has come toward solving the click fraud problem and how far we still have to go.It was just a little over a year ago ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on November 14, 2007
  • Click Fraud Network mention on the latest edition of PC Talk

    Click Fraud Network is mentioned in the lasted edition of PC Talk: http://www.rblevin.net/webcasts/PCT_07-07_RobYoegel_1.mp3 Is print dead? Are blogs journalism? What do advertisers want? Will social networks and user-generated content eclipse traditional media? These are some of the pressing questions in publishing circles. And few people have ...
    Posted to Click Fraud: Dissecting The Press (Forum) by Rob on July 21, 2007
  • Click Forensics CEO on CNBC

    Search giants like Google and Yahoo count on a Web surfer's every click to generate revenue, but some advertisers say they're getting ripped off. Tom Cuthbert, president of Click Forensics, shares his insight with CNBC's Carl Quintanilla. Click here to view the CNBC video. 
    Posted to Click Fraud: Dissecting The Press (Forum) by Kevin Embree on July 19, 2007
  • Pay-Per-Action (PPA) Does Not Escape Fraud

    Google recently announced the global expansion of it's new PPA program available to select adwords advertisers.  For those unfamiliar with this terminology, PPA means pay-per-action, also called CPA, cost per action.  Participants pay for traffic delivered to their sites only when a specified action occurs e.g. white paper download, ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by Lori Weiman on June 26, 2007
  • Advertisers should never pay for traffic from bots.

    The Department of Justice and FBI released results yesterday of their ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “botherders” and ''botnets'' and have identified over 1 million new victim computer IP addresses.OPERATION BOT ROAST is a national initiative and the FBI ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by Kevin Embree on June 14, 2007
  • Re: Click Fraud vs Click Quality - What's the difference?

    We don't think google treat advertiser as customers so well, in most of the situations, when we reported the fraud clicks using our raw access web logs, they simply won't issue you any refund. The adwords support just responded with their standard canned response to us, e.g., we detected at least 30 clicks in the search network and content ...
    Posted to Click Fraud 101 (Forum) by udigis on June 13, 2007
  • Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime

    The department of Justice and the FBI along with the cooperation of Microsoft Corporation and the Botnet Task Force have announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative.  Operation Bot Roast is a national initiative that has uncovered over 1 million victim computers infected by botnet software.  The FBI release ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by Paul Leury on June 13, 2007
  • Tom Cuthbert on Click Fraud at Search Engine Strategies 2007 Canada

    Tom Cuthbert, President and CEO of Click Forensics will be participating in a panel discussion at the Search Engine Strategies 2007 conference held in Toronto, Canada.  The panel will be discussing the types of click fraud while offering best practices on how to protect your pay per click campaigns and accurately audit your PPC ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by Paul Leury on June 13, 2007
  • Profiting from Click Fraud

    A day or so ago, Shuman Ghosemajumder from Google posted two blogs on his personal site questioning Click Forensics data, methodologies and motivation. While it is really unfortunate that we have to take time to address these issues, I will. It is unfortunate because Shuman and I have had numerous phone conversations, email ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on February 4, 2007
  • Everything's going to be great once we get our fraud problem solved

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    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on February 4, 2007
  • Correcting Google's Inaccuracies

    First, let me introduce myself by way of my recent background – I left Symantec and joined Click Forensics because I wanted to help fight the industry’s biggest problem, click fraud, which threatens the economic foundations of the internet economy. At Symantec, I was responsible for the development of all heuristic technologies used to ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on February 4, 2007
  • SES Chicago 2006 - Recap

    I am on my way back from Search Engine Strategies (SES) in Chicago.  What could have been more fun than another click fraud panel this time in sunny Chicago in December!  Honestly, I have been looking forward to participating with the same group we had in San Jose last summer.  The discussion was lively and I have a deep respect for ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on December 16, 2006
  • Measuring Clicks

    I wanted to update you on some important developments regarding the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Click Measurement Working Group.  Earlier this month, Kevin Embree and I attended the first meeting of the working group in San Francisco. The meeting was well attended in San Francisco and others joined in New York and by phone.  We ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on September 26, 2006
  • Former eBay Trust & Safety Expert to represent Click Forensics and 2,500 Members of the Click Fraud Network on the IAB Click Measurement Working Group

    Click Forensics Names Kevin Embree to Board of Advisors SAN ANTONIO, Texas – September 13, 2006 – Click Forensics™, LLC, which runs the search advertising industry’s largest independent click fraud reporting service – the Click Fraud Network™ ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on September 26, 2006
  • The Google Guy

    It was the SES show in Chicago last December.  Not surprisingly, by the time the conference was over it was freezing cold and snowing sideways.  Welcome to Chicago!  I had just come from listening to the last session of the three day event, “The Click Fraud Debate”.  The panel included moderator Jeff Rohrs, John Slade from ...
    Posted to Click Fraud Network (Weblog) by admin on August 8, 2006