MS Live Search Phantom Clicks

[koloth44]

So I made a campaign using Microsoft AdCenter. I'm direct linking to the offer. Now, adCenter shows (and charged me for) 11 clicks. My affiliate report on Ads4Dough, and my stats on Prosper202 show 180-190 clicks. In Prosper202, most of the clicks are from IP 207.46.119.86, which is registered to Microsoft. I assume it is a bot of some sort.
Prosper shows all kinds of different keywords for the clicks from the bot. I haven't seen this happen with other campaigns on adCenter.

What is it doing? I'm not being charged or anything, but it's messing up my stat tracking :angryfire:

 

[miketpowell]

^^ Just turn the stat tracking to "real clicks" only instead of all clicks and it will filter out that IP for ya.

 

[koloth44]

^^ Just turn the stat tracking to "real clicks" only instead of all clicks and it will filter out that IP for ya.

Thanks, I can do that in prosper202, but is there a way to also do that in ads4dough's reports?
And do you (or anyone) know what the bot is for? (I'm naturally inquisitive )

 

[moolahaffiliate]

Thanks, I can do that in prosper202, but is there a way to also do that in ads4dough's reports?
And do you (or anyone) know what the bot is for? (I'm naturally inquisitive )

Pretty obvious. They need to look through your campaign to ensure compliance to their policies.