"Question I'm seeing traffic from India not muCh yet enough to think about Google banning."

Are you sure, Google bans websites with India traffic?

Why don't you ask them?

Since the great article in Business week about click fruad everyone is aware that traffic from india is a red flag.

I guess I can just send them a emial.

Best

Hi,

IMHO, to implicitly write off all Indian traffic as "click fraud" is as silly and rude and nasty as the old "all men are potential rapists" line.

Yes, it *could* be true for a small fraction of the category, but tarring the rest with the same brush is outrageous, and actually my traffic from India converts well, indeed well enough that I hope to put up a local mirror in Mumbai within the next couple of months.

Unless you do something likely to stir up trouble in India with your site then there is no reason to treat it specially.

YMMV of course.

Rgds

Damon

[edited by: DamonHD at 1:33 pm (utc) on Oct. 3, 2006]

First off, I did not say to write off all traffic from Inida.. I said should a heads based on the latest news highlights.

When an article underline specific areas that potential click fruad develops then yes I will be concern.

I have nothing against traffic from India yet I'm the main man (G)who pays me may.

Thanks

Google has thousands of advertisers in India, many pay exclusively for Indian traffic, so why will they ban you?

Please just pick up an issue of business week (Click Fraud) headline.

If your traffic is genuine then you have nothing to worry about. If you believe the traffic is fraudulent - then inform Google, and explain your reasoning behind your theory. India is a vast country, that has developed massively over recent years. There are a lot of people on this forum who either write their sites based in India, or direct traffic expressly there. So traffic from Indian is not necessarily indicative of fraudulent activity. IMHO

Click fraud really depends upon industry to industry. There are many Non profit organizations online now who are monitoring Click fraud for SEs and they admit its specific to Industry and not country.

One industry online may experience only 1% fake clicks while another might be experiencing click fraud upto 28-30%.

Furthermore, different countries contribute different amount of traffic on a given keyword (checkout Google Trends for the same).

It really depends upon the sample data that Business week analyzed. Not even Google has been able to correctly analyze the numbers of click fraud and have not been able to solve the problem as yet... then how come business week was able to determine that India is contributing to click fraud only?

If you are getting fraudlent clicks from India, then maybe you are getting maximum genuine traffic from India too. India is a growing economy and the number of Online users of India has trippled since last year. Blocking Indian traffic is just foolishness on the basis of 2-3 pages report that an X magazine has published.

Do proper research first, know your domain, checkout which country is contributing traffic to your keywords, analyze your traffic, chechout which country people are actually buying and then blame a country for click fraud.

Thanks
Ricky

[edited by: Ricky_G at 3:34 pm (utc) on Oct. 4, 2006]

yeah, to some extent I do understand and agree. Google "India's secret army of online ad 'clickers'- The Times of India" and u will find some more of that info. But don't think all Indian traffic is a problem. Is your site geared to something generic that would drive traffic from India? Like Entertainment related or is it US/UK specific?

Sounds as if you are profiling! :/

Seriously, if you really want to, there may be a way to block a region using .htmaccess or whatever it's called.

p/g