How Click Fraud Affects Pay Per Click Advertisers

In this article, Boris Mordkovich reports that Click fraud, whereby either people or software fraudulently click on your ads, is an increasing problem for Pay Per Click advertisers such that up to 5-15% of their spending may go to waste.

The author suggests that advertisers monitor their own traffic carefully using a third party service.

Read the full article at http://www.searchengineguide.com/mordkovich/003558.html

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