fraudulent clicks from adsonar

[RichieN]

It seems that I'm getting a lot of bot clicks from adsonar and yet I'm paying for those clicks. Sent them an email but haven't heard back as it's weekend.

This is getting ridiculous as more than 50% of clicks i'm receiving are from bots, anyone else noticed the same? Is this happening to a lot of you guys?

 

[exec]

they don't charge for those clicks

 

[DomboCom]

I've had 30% click discrepancies with them but just get some lame response on how they have thousands of advertisers that don't experience these issues, their tracking is superior and mine sucks.

 

[RichieN]

they don't charge for those clicks

no, they do. i don't have much volume so it's noticeable that they are charging for the clicks.

 

[Sticks79]

http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/70924-widespread-fraud-media-buys.html

MediaPost Publications Study: Half Of Ad Impressions, 95 Percent Of Clicks Fraudulent 09/18/2009

 

[Webwonder]

You should stick to the big 3 search engines. Click fraud is insanely ridiculous everywhere else.

 

[KalVin]

I have yet to turn a ROI at adsonar, but I keep on going back to try to make it work. But I avoid the RON placements and stick with the big name sites thinking the traffic would at least be more legit.

Turn on the tracking parameters in the account information tab and see where those clicks are coming from and turn those placements off.