Adcenter contaminating prosper202 stats

[JoseArmando]

Adcenter is hitting my links with ips 157.55.*.* and they're all registering as real clicks in prosper. It's kinda messing with my campaigns since I got about 100k of these clicks on a certain campaign. I'm direct linking on this one.

Does anyone have any ideas how to filter out these clicks?

 

[imkazu]

I had that exact same problem,
they seem to parse all keywords within a campaign periodically ... I've emailed their rep and they seem to have no clue.

just have a cron job running to clear these off

 

[JoseArmando]

Can you share how exactly do you structure the cron job to purge it?

 

[solution2u]

I agree it is quite annoying. But mine 1 is from 65.55.*.*. I am interested to know this also.

 

[vgeek]

Wait till you get the Comscore ones. They come from a small number of ip's, but they're even worse.

 

[testonej]

can you just put the ips in the "visitor Ip" box and then instead of selecting real or all clicks, select "show filtered out clicks" which should show the opposite of the normal filter?

Its not a great long-term solution but at least could allow you to look at some of your data in a better way.

A better long term solution would be to add some php to your landing page that doesn't show the p202 tracking code to ips within that range so they never register as a subid with prosper.

 

[JoseArmando]

A better long term solution would be to add some php to your landing page that doesn't show the p202 tracking code to ips within that range so they never register as a subid with prosper.

This should work. I looked it up and came up with this code to block IPs with wildcards

$targetAddr = "123.123..*..*";  //yes is two dots

//this code will match any class of 123.123.x.x, 
//you can also do "123.123.123..*" to do anything that is 123.123.123.x

if (ereg($targetAddr, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) {
    //remote address match, do something or don't do anything
} else {
   //do whatever you want to address that doesn't match
}