| Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/16/12 2:19 PM | So i noticed that a lot of us are experiencing invalid clicks on the image ads and after about a month of pulling my hair out and reading these forums it seems that User Pinkvisions may have found the source https://groups.google.com/a/googleproduct |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Vascant | 5/16/12 3:53 PM | I posted the solution in one of these threads... I will post it again and try to remember everything I stated then 1. This will most likely kill Amazon Affiliate, I do not use it so could not test it but based on what I see.. it will 2. Add this |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/16/12 3:59 PM | That is amazing, thank you so much! I'm going to try it now! |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Gracey | 5/16/12 5:35 PM | That's rather strange. I don't have the amazon bot crawling my sites at all. If it's the affiliate bot, wouldn't you think you'd need to have an affiliate code on your site for them to send the crawler? |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/16/12 5:44 PM | I have just implemented Vascant's code (about an hour or so ago) and can confirm that so far it is working... I don't think it's an "Amazon bot" as such but rather one of many bad bots that hey host... !?? |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | zihara | 5/16/12 6:59 PM | The Amazon cloud has been implicated in certain problems across the web... something about how their cloud offering works and who they allow to use it. |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Vascant | 5/16/12 7:30 PM | As an example, ACS bots only crawl 1 of my sites. They do not crawl another site I have on the same IP nor sites I have on other IP's. These bots are not run by Amazon based on what I have learned thus far the bots come from users on their Cloud Se |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Gracey | 5/16/12 8:12 PM | The IP addresses are not static though, and at least a couple of them can't even be resolved - which seems to mean, you need to keep a constant vigil on the IP addresses? My IP blocking function can't find a number of them at all - "unresolved" and " |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Vascant | 5/16/12 9:16 PM | I acquired the IP's either from my own logs from attacks against my website and then finished it up with a few I found by looking up domains that Amazon CS owns. Yes, this will be an effort that required checking monthly to ensure your website is se |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Gracey | 5/17/12 3:57 AM | Yeah, currently I might get three to four invalid clicks every few weeks or so, but in any case, I think it's just wise to check what IPs are allocated to AEW and block them all at the moment. It's nice to see pubs taking the initiative to figure out |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Dan B. | 5/17/12 4:26 AM | I am thinking it's a good time now to mention that people look up the htaccess blacklist from Perishable Press...I've been using it for years as a small part of my defensive measures...it blocks a HUGE list of known spambots, scanbots, downloaders, k |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 5:56 AM | I woke up this morning and it looks like your the block list has been partially effective but am still getting about 20-ish% invalid clicks so i'm missing something. Sorry to bother you again Vascant but could you tell me how you found the damaging i |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Vascant | 5/17/12 6:17 AM | First thing you need to do is determine where the clicks are coming from, now I know a lot of people dismiss StatCounter however it is probably the easiest and most effective measure for this kind of thing. I say this because StatCounter will count |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 6:25 AM | Thanks again... I'm really grateful for all your help! |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | pinkvisions | 5/17/12 6:56 AM | I used Adsense in Google Analytics to find which domain invalid clicks were coming from. In Google Analytics, click on Standard reporting tab. On the top right chose the day or the time period you got invalid clicks. On the left side click on Content |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 7:49 AM | Thanks for the info Pinkvisions... i'll give that a try as well! |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Dan B. | 5/17/12 8:00 AM | Good advice, though I would suggest perhaps not filtering people on who gave zero revenue, but who gave zero revenue and had some clicks. |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 11:50 AM | I just received around 20 invalids in 30 minutes so i guess it's back to the drawing board for me :/ I tried both methods mentioned above but to no avail... Statcouner isn't showing the invalid clicks at all and analytics is also a dead end... (i rea |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Dan B. | 5/17/12 12:08 PM | Your hosting provider will be of little help, their job is to keep your server up and that's about it. If you can find the source of those clicks by IP, country of origin, or dns name, might be worth doing some reverse lookups for trends... |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 12:21 PM | Dreamhost has helped me a few times before on non related topics so i thought it was worth a shot.. :P That is exactly what i'm trying to find but finding any info on those clicks is near to impossible. They are simply not showing on any reports exce |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Vascant | 5/17/12 1:15 PM | I know my solution and problem where different but perhaps my initial steps or solution might help you here...If you already do not know break down your adsense into Url Channels and find where these clicks are taking place. Once you have this, then |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/17/12 9:24 PM | Thanks again for the advice Vascant, i know the invalids are taking place in the footer of every page and an add on the front page. Oddly enough i have one ad on the sing post pages that doesn't get effected but that is brought in through http://comments.ph |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/18/12 7:43 AM | If google is listening... i would actually pay for a couple of emails from them... I'm loosing money and sleep because of this and wasting so much time going through logs when i could be publishing content. I would gladly pay to speak to someone! |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Ad Traffic Quality Team | 5/22/12 10:25 AM | Hey all, This is Andrew from the Ad Traffic Quality Team at Google. We're aware of a problem with a third-party crawler in the network that is generating invalid activity across a number of different publishers. We've recently made some changes to |
| Re: Invalid clicks problem - Possible solution | Robotvsbadger | 5/22/12 12:16 PM | Email received and replied. Thank you again. |
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