What Is AdSense Clickbot
What Is AdSense Clickbot (a.k.a Automated AdSense Clicker)?
Note: I do not condone or encourage cheating on Google AdSense or any advertiser network. This article is indeed written to show why you should NOT use clickbot. If you want to increase your earning, there are legal and easier ways. Read 100 Google AdSense Tips.
Apparently, for some reason, it is not easy to find information about clickbots from the Internet. I need to dig a bit into Google cache to get some decent information. At the time I’m writing this, even Wikipedia does not have an entry specially for “clickbot” yet. The nearest term from Wikipedia is “Internet Bot”.
A bot is common parlance on the Internet for a software program that is a software agent. A Bot interacts with other network services intended for people as if it were a real person. One typical use of bots is to gather information. The term is derived from the word “robot,” reflecting the autonomous character in the “virtual robot”-ness of the concept.
Put simply, clickbot is a specialized bot made to simulate clicking. Initially popular for gaming cheat, now clickbot has taken the highlight in pay-per-click advertisement business. In 2004, a California man created a clickbot that he claimed cannot be detected by Google. Failed to make good money selling the program, he tried to blackmail Google for $150,000 to hand over the program. He was arrested, nonetheless.
For computer savvy users, creating a clickbot is very simple and straight forward. You just need a macro to record your activities. While the macro is recoding, you visit your own site and click on the ads. Save the macro, and then let it run. Of course, you will also need a list of proxies to cover your track.
Fortunately for advertisers and honest publishers, Google is not stupid. With the huge amount of data that it has, Google can easily compile the most comprehensive proxy list on earth. In the AdSense report, clicks from proxies will add up to the number of clicks, but no money is credited to the earning. As you guess, when the proxy clicks exceed a certain number, your AdSense account is disabled.
Organised crimes handle this by having the clickbot software on many computers around the world, each with their own Internet Service Provider. Some of these software may be installed without the computer owners’ permissions or knowledge, via trojans and viruses. Or it might be installed voluntarily by the click-network members.
Beginning of this year, Greg Boser from WebGuerilla did an experiment to test the extent of click-fraud by using clickbot, with no conclusive answer. Some experts claims that click fraud accounts for up to 20% of the clicks, generating more than $1 billion in a year.
Whether or not the estimation is correct, one thing is sure. Google, Yahoo and other big players in the PPC advertising business takes click-fraud very seriously, and it will be just a matter of time when fraudsters are caught.
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Google shoud make some research to find clicks from clickbots
dont cheat
You know what. I wish you were right. I wish that Google could catch these chumps. The internet is the new “Wild West”. There are gun slingers , pirates, scammers, and spammers under every friggin rock.
Forget about doing legitimate business. These clowns want to profit at any cost, and your welfare means absolutely zero to them.
In some markets that I advertise in, there are certain channels that I cannot go near with a 10 foot poll for fear of getting slammed with fraudulent clicks. I know this because the traffic from those channels is ultra targetted, yet the CTR on my Landing Page is less than 5% (and my site is a fully developed authority site).
When I contact google about this, they send me a friggin thesis that some womble wrote back in the day discussing click fraud, or “invalid clicks” as they like to call it. Then they can tell me that I can block up to 10 IPs per campaign if I would like to. Woopie. That wont cover the several hundred IPs that these professional click frauders rotating on international server rings.
Google and Yahoo are in a bit of strife. They are far from the only game in town, and if they don’t get their act sorted out they will find themselves lumbered with all the scammers and none of the legitimate advertisers that they are trying to keep.
Thanks for sharing, Wynne. It is interesting to hear from advertiser view. But I don’t fully get what do you mean by CTR on Landing Page being less than 5%.
If I get it correctly, you are saying that you advertise via Google Adwords, then expecting your visitors to click at some advertisement in your site (Google Adsense or otherwise).
If that is the case, I don’t really see anything amiss there. 5% CTR is quite high for my standard, and even more so when your site is popular and deemed authoritative.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheating Google is not possible. Better not to try these.
Google AdSense will be great on sites with good articles, etc..
Neo
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Agreed with that. Totally.
I am the same built a website and my CTR is around 5% but best to have a honest income
Wow… That quite high, isn’t it? My CTR have been hovering around 1% for more than a year by now.
Yeah I know google is not stupid. But I dont have to worry about it. Because, my website still not get approved. lol.
Hey I had applied my site five days back. But no message i received yet. Can anyone reply me, how much time they probably take to approve to one site?
Good for you. lol. usually about 7 days
Hi, i had use http://www.adsenseguard.com and i loved it! i have 12 sites, i earn monthly $500 and i don’t want to lose nothing, i recomend this is very efective.
Haven’t try the adsenseguard . Can’t really suggest to use it, cause not sure how it works.
I don’t think this could actually work man
Clickbot is easy to get catch by Google because the result coming too fast. Once you get banned not only your account been banned to easy , your blog or your website maybe has black list by them which will affect your SEO as well.
Dont waste your time with Clickbot kind of things. Its super instant adsense ban.
Google Earns Millions Every Single Day It Wont Be A Problem If They Use ClickBots..
Bad idea. Google earns billions of dollar every year because advertisers TRUST them with their ad money. For google to continue earning the money, they got to maintain that TRUST.