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Click Fraud Rate Mostly Unchanged, Says Click Forensics

Posted by Internet Guru
July 24, 2008

Click Forensics has released the second quarter results for 2008, showing a slight drop in the estimated click fraud. Last quarter, Click Forensics reported a 16.3 percent rate, they are now reporting a 16.2 percent rate for Q2 of 2008. However, the rate is up from a year ago, which was a 15.8 percent rate in Q2 of 2007.

The main number that stood out was that “traffic from botnets was responsible for more than 25 percent of all click fraud traffic in Q2 2008,” said Click Forensics. Click Forensics believes the botnets increase was the reason why the click fraud rate did not drop more then it should have.

Here are the latest charts:

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As always, keep in mind Chris Sherman’s advice when looking at these figures:

At first glance, these numbers may seem alarming, but they may not take into account the discounting of questionable clicks done by most search engines. In fact, Google has stated that click fraud amounts to just .02% of all clicks after it allows for other non-converting clicks.
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