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Jun 29, 2024, 7:25:45 AM6/29/24

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I have a site that get's roughly 7,000 - 10,000 page views per day right now. Starting around 1 AM on 7/1/12 I noticed the CTR was rising dramatically. These clicks would be credited then de-credited soon after. So, they were obviously fraudulent clicks. The next day I had about 200 clicks with about 100 of them being fraudulent. It's about 3 - 8 clicks per hour evenly dispersed for each of the three ads 24 hours a day. This leads me to believe that it's some sort of Adsense click bot. Also, I removed the ads last evening then put them back up around 3AM and the invalid clicks started within 10 minutes.

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I signed up for statcounter.com to analyze the exit links on the Adsense. Then I conditionally blocked ads for the IP address of the person / bot I suspected doing this. But, I think that the bot has several proxies to choose from and can refresh IP addresses.

I've notified Google through the invalid click form / email 4 times over the past two days in order to let them know I'm aware of the situation and am working on a solution. I've also temporally removed all ads on that site.

1 - Other than IP and User-Agent strings, you could try to set a cookie and display ads only if cookie is set. Also, if the bot uses cookies, try to see if it's clever enough to clear them when it changes IP (it probably will, but it's worth a shot). If it doesnt, then you could use an unique_id cookie to prevent the bot from clicking.

2 - If you have multiple bot-hits with the same IP, you could try also to display: none in the CSS file a block of code similar to an AD, and see if the bot clicks on it. If it does, you can ban it from hitting other ADs (until it changes IP).3 - I do not think it's worth it, but you could try to train a Machine Learning algorithm that prevents displaying the ads to suspected bots, but you will probably have some(many) false positives, as it is really hard to predict what user is a bot based solely on behaviour (especially if the bot tries to emulate a human).

Detection and mitigation is Google's responsibility, so (beyond completing your due diligence by reporting activity which may reflect poorly upon the status of your AdSense account) you can limit the scope of your concerns regarding these bots to whether or not their activity is impacting site performance for legitimate visitors.

I was able to see that the bot was indeed changing IP's for every click. But, it always used Chrome/20 as a browser; that was the only consistent attribute. So, I conditionally blocked ads for anyone using that browser. It's definitely a compromise for now and will lose a bit of profits. But, it's better than the alternative. Also, in a month or so I'll remove it and if the bot's still on the prowl.

Using the Advanced Ads Click Fraud Protection can minimize the risk of suffering too much invalid traffic. The feature works seamlessly with manually embedded Google AdSense ads and Google AdSense Auto Ads.

With this setup, Advanced Ads will hide the ad once a visitor reaches the defined click limit for the specified period, ensuring that each ad is protected against excessive clicks. Of course, you can also apply this condition to a placement.

One of my AdSense ad units (in the new beta interface) occasionally says that I have more clicks than page views which gives a CTR of over 100%. Does anyone know how this happens? I'm assuming it has something to do with when a page view is recorded, versus when someone clicks, but it happens regularly enough (on a daily report) that it can't just be that a bunch of users click an ad before the page displays fully.

Text ad units can display many ads per unit - 4 to 5 are visible at once but often you will see an arrow to scroll through more ads. Same thing goes if you have multiple ad units per page. A user could click all of those ads.

It is possible to have number of clicks greater than page views. When a user clicks on your ad the user is taken to a new webpage however when the user clicks on back button on new page it is not recorded as new page view on your website. You should be very careful and closely monitor your website statistics and report this activity to adsense as some one might be trying to click bomb you.

It's not 100% accurate, but it's the best you can do. Basically, when you mouseover the iFrame, it sets a state to watch for loss of focus to your main window. If that happens, it assumes the document lost focus because the user clicked on the iFrame.

You can use the IMA SDK for HTML to request video ads. The introduction video on the homepage of their docs shows an ad being played when the user clicks a button, like you're looking for. Once you get started, if you have questions for the IMA SDK specifically, you should reach out on their forum.

If you're forecasting your digital media spend, you need to compare the ROI of your display ads, paid social, Google Ads, and social media. Depending on your objectives, it's worth reviewing and benchmarking the latest metrics like average click-through rates, average cost per click, and cost per lead.

I've put this compilation together to help marketing professionals create direct response conversion models for digital marketing campaigns. By creating budget models using known benchmarks for average CTRs and digital media click-through costs, you can better forecast your return on investment from digital media ads. Our budgeting and forecasting spreadsheets include:

This data is particularly useful if you haven't previously invested in advertising on publisher sites through ad networks or paid social media ads since it can help make the case and set expectations with colleagues or clients of the number of visits based on quantitative forecasts. As always, we recommend applying a targeted, data-driven approach to your marketing activities and we have tools and templates to help.

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One of the best sources for PPC data is LocalIQ/Wordstream paid search bencmarks. Note that the sample is typically for smaller local businesses. The data below details CTR, CPC, CR and CPL in 2023 for a wide range of business categories:

Cost per click in search advertising is driven by many factors. As demonstrated in the table below, depending on the industry, a click could cost a marketer less than $2 or as much as $8-9, such as those in attorneys & legal services.

However, it's important to look at the bigger picture when defining the value of your clicks. $9 is still a very reasonable cost considering the high-value potential for each customer lifecycle in this industry. Therefore it's reasonable to presume that the CPC is driven up by high competition for a relatively smaller number of target customers (/clicks).

For brand engagement rates, one of the best sources for insight on paid media engagement including CTR and cost is the Skai research. Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a performance marketing platform offering advertising Placements on Google, Meta, Amazon Ads, TikTok, Snap, Walmart Connect, Instacart, Roundel, Criteo, CitrusAd, Pinterest, Microsoft, Apple Search Ads, and more.

Brands using it include Pepsico, Diageo, Reckitt, Daimler, LG, and Vodafone. It is one of the few sources available offering CTR benchmarks for search and display. Trends in retail categories are also shown in the full report. The most recent version published as of Jan 2024 includes Q3 of 2023, these are shared below.

Unfortunately, there isn't a breakdown by social network in the Skai data, but the majority of the spend is with Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram. This shows how CTR is typically around 1.1-1.3% in social feeds which is significantly higher than the lower historic data reported for display towards the end of this article.

Further insight on organic and paid social engagement across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok is available from the Emplify (formerly Social Bakers) social media industry reports which cover 6 industries.

LocalIQs Google Adwords industry benchmarks average CTRs now report just on the Google Ads search network accounts they manage. They no longer report on the display network. This typically has sub one-percent CTRs.

Unfortunately, Google has removed CTRs reported for its Doubleclick display brand and their interactive Display benchmarking tool. So now we can only present previous data. No other alternatives are available as far as I'm aware.

Previous pre-2015 Doubleclick data shows an average CTR of just 0.05% for all display formats, i.e just 5 clicks per 10000 impressions, showing the difficulty of driving direct response from online display or banner ads. Perhaps that is why Google no longer publishes this data...

While this is a really low CTR, however you look at it, cross-media optimization tests shows that online ads do help increase brand awareness and purchase intent, particularly when combined with offline media.

It's not the case that the majority of ad viewers have 'banner blindness' and are not aware of ads that are viewable placements. If this were the case, businesses wouldn't invest in the level of display and programmatic ads that they do.

We also see much higher CTRs online for other online ad formats like Google AdWords and Facebook - these can exceed 1%, so are more effective in driving volume and also typically have higher intent, so conversion rates are higher.

Ad clickthrough rate naturally varies according to placement (position on screen) and ad format (shape and size). The traditional full-banner performs very poorly compared to skyscrapers, the ubiquitous medium rectangle and the newer large rectangle format.