anyone know anything about tabooclick?

[Blazingpie]

came across http://www.tabooclick.com/ which apaprently looks at browser settings and what not to see if it's a human or a clickfraud bot that's clicking on your adsense. Still in beta, but it does look promising. I mean, if the browser doesnt have javascript, how could the 'user' click on the ad?

found it in a comment (http://www.threadwatch.org/node/7347#comment-41836) on a threadwatch thread (http://www.threadwatch.org/node/7347), where the guy claims Google banned it because it was detecting levels as high as 30% fraud...

[Paz]

I think the whole thing's outrageous, especially after Eric Schmidt is widely reported as having said that advertisers should factor in click fraud in their costs. I think there'll be a class action lawsuit now.

Anyway, Koz has written a blog on some of the problems and issues surrounding click fraud (http://www.digital-m.co.za/seo-blog/2006/07/protect-your-pay-per-click-ppc.html).


Cheers,
Paz.

[daniel]

I know that Google etc, have a click fraud system that identifies the IP address that the clicks came from. Although a bot can mask an ip and select a random one, im sure that Google would be on top of things.

As i am not a huge Overture fan, Their basic technology is terrible, never works, always down for maintenance, the reports are 24 - 48 hours delayed ( should i go on)

I dont think that overture has even heard of something called click fraud, they are too busy fixing bugs.

Maybe someone should send this post to Overture,

Dan

[Webzcas]

I spent a couple of thousand on overture uk a few months ago. As far as I can tell, I would have been better off walking up to the roof of my apartment building and throwing the cash off.

I also know from talking to several online casinos, they are finding that overture ( Aimed at UK Market ) no longer brings anywhere near the amount of results in terms of new players, as it did in the past.

To be honest, I would dedicate any marketing spend you have available towards off site optimisation - in the way of obtaining relevant traffic from the site you advertise on, or by improving your inbound links from themed sites.

[Koz]

Apparentlly Overture has “click protection” designed to detect click fraud based on over 50 factors. But according to benedelman's (http://www.benedelman.org/news/040406-1.html) reports, some notorious spyware programs are receiving payments from Overture.

Is this just conspirecy theory or do you think this could be happening?

Cheers, Koz