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What Is Ad Fraud And How To Avoid Cheating This Ad?

What is Ad Fraud and how to Avoid Cheating this ad? - What is the sense of Ad Fraud actually is? Most of the Google Adsense publisher would've never heard of Ad Fraud or cheating ads. For the tech industry ads, Ad fraud is diversion of already happened long enough.

This article will discuss a little about Ad Fraud/deception advertisement in the digital advertising industry. Although Ad Fraud has happened long enough, it turns out that there are still publishers who have not realized until now.
What Is Ad Fraud And How To Avoid Cheating This Ad?
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What Is Ad Fraud?

Understanding Ad Fraud or cheating ads is a type of fraud in which perpetrators fool advertisers to pay for something that is worthless to them; such false traffic, the prospect of a false or an unnatural ad placement and ineffective. The goal of the cheating was done is to get a bigger income.

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Some types of cheating ads such as:

1. Traffic Bot
Traffic bot is the Act of mimicking a visit to a website (similar to a real human visits to a website) that result in the display of web pages for website publisher. Advertisers will pay for display ads served to a bot like the appearance to humans.

Of course this is detrimental to the parties because advertisers would not produce anything for them. Never happens to the sale or prospective buyers to visit the advertiser's site, display advertising that will only add to greater spending for advertisers.

2. Stacking the Advertising
Cheating ads this one quite often we find on the internet, especially on a site that uses Google Adsense ads on it. The goal was clear, to increase the number of ad clicks (CTR) without caring about whether click these ads useful to advertisers.

One of the frequently used practice is to place more than one ad in the same ad spot. This was done to increase earnings naughty publisher them without caring about sales conversion for the advertiser.

3. Click Fraud
Click fraud is a type of scam ads are the oldest and most common. Click fraud is still a generation with traffic bot (false traffic) where the publisher mischievous use of the program click on auto called hit bot or pay services click advertising cost to get greater income.

Although the number of clicks your ad click fraud is very high, this will not result in sales conversions for advertisers. In other words, advertisers pay for ads but not getting any results.

4. Charging Pixel

This is the Act of charging ad into a single pixel. This will increase the number of user impressi, but never see any advertisements that appear because of one single pixel is impossible to find.

5. Counterfeiting Domain
This is the Act of selling ad inventory into an ugly sites and is considered a premium website. Advertisers think that their ads will be broadcast on trusted sites, but unfortunately they are only paying for placement on the fake website inventory.

6. Filling of the Cookie
This is the action of the inclusion of cookies to users of the internet without the knowledge of them. In this way the offender can embed a cookie to the browser on the user's computer to the internet. When the user opens the internet e-commerce site and make a purchase, then the perpetrators will get paid from the sale proceeds.

Such practice is very often done a few years ago where the actors infuse their affiliate link cookies in browser internet user when creating a site.

7. Click Farm (Click Fields)
Still similar to Click Fraud, i.e. increase ad clicks on the site publisher in a way that is inappropriate. There are many groups who are willing to get paid to do cheap activity click the ads on certain sites. Usually the click advertising site publisher wrong direction that advertise Pay Per Click (PPC) thus increasing the number of ad clicks.

But, of course it will not click ads generate sales conversion for the advertiser. Google Adsense is one of the first PPC programs often get abuse from the abuser Click Farm.

In addition to that mentioned above, there are still a variety of Ad Fraud that occurs in digital advertising. In fact, these irregularities were continuous and evolving over time with a variety of developmental changes.
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How To Avoid Ad Fraud/Cheating Ads.

Ad fraud not only detrimental to the advertisers, but could also be detrimental to the publisher. Although in general this fraud done by the publisher, but the Ad turns to fraud committed by a competitor the publisher. The goal is of course to the detriment of its competitors, so the publisher for instance lead to account Google Adsense competitor is suspended.

For advertisers is of course a necessity to protect themselves from the practice of ad fraud from publishers of rogue. 

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To protect Your inventory and advertising of cheating ads, then you have to do the monitoring feature report on a daily basis. By analyzing features of weblogs and sites report advertising platform, we can find the source of the abnormal traffic and take action to fix it.

For the publisher itself, one way that advertisers trust the ad inventory You is by placing ads in file server of your website. The addition of file Ads.txt aims to create transparency from the digital advertising industry.
What Is Ad Fraud And How To Avoid Cheating This Ad?
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Campaign txt Ads.

Some time ago the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is calling for a campaign called by Ads. This is done to protect advertisers and publisher of ad fraud that may occur.

Ads. txt is intended to increase the transparency of the inventory of ads on the site publisher with a display ad network anything that is linked to a site. With the addition of this txt file Ads. advertisers can see their advertising campaigns directed at the right inventory and publisher can prevent fraud and abuse going on in their inventory.

Campaign ads. txt is supported by some advertising companies such as Double Click, the Bid Manager and DSP International, where the publisher they should be to authorization inventory with ads. If you don't use ads .txt then their inventory will not be included in the offer (since end of September 2017).

In fact, without adding this txt ads. the publisher will still see the display of advertising on their site. However, Google Adsense itself recommends the addition of ads file .txt with the goal of keeping inventory on the website of the publisher is trusted by advertisers and will likely get bigger deals than ever before.
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