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Click Bombing

Click Bombing/ Invalid click Attack on website

         

alenabrenda12

8:27 am on Dec 18, 2017 (gmt 0)

5+ Year Member



hello, i am getting an invalid click and click bombing on my website since i have activated google adsence. My page CTR goes 100 above. what should i do? invalid click are coming from United States.

ember

5:53 pm on Dec 18, 2017 (gmt 0)

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I'd first take the code off the pages being click bombed or remove the site from your authorized list of sites until you figure out what is going on. Then examine your logs to see if you can spot bots and block them. There are threads here on WebmasterWorld about bad IP ranges and blocking them. I'd also contact Adsense to report invalid activity (they have a form for that) and explain what you are doing to stop the problem.

alenabrenda12

5:51 am on Dec 20, 2017 (gmt 0)

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ember thanks for the detailed guideline.. I found that the invalid clicks are coming from the united states and its being 1 month now that i have removed my ads.. because my CTR was going very high.... so can you please guide me how I can find the Invalid ips to block them? i am still unable the find the Ips.

keyplyr

7:33 am on Dec 20, 2017 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Learn to read your raw server logs. Download them every day and manually go through them. Learn by doing. It takes time.

Helpful links:

Search Engine Spider & User Agent ID Forum [webmasterworld.com]

Server Farm IP Ranges [webmasterworld.com]

Blocking Methods [webmasterworld.com]

You can use free Analog [mirror.reverse.net] to process the logs on your local machine to show you what IPs are doing what.