Fake Facebook Traffic - HUUUGE SPIKE
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Try running CPM until they solve this shit. I guess you could still have fraudulent impressions, but it probably won't be as costly as this.
scrapers are just part of the prob people....across all the countries, all the developers with apps etc on FB etc, can u poss imagine how many scrapers are running on FB?
ALOT.
Then, if your ads are getting banged MORE than 1 time from the same IP on a very small timeframe...you know that isnt a scraper..thats a click bot there to do one thing. Bang you up to 5 times so you lose money and get out of that niche, or completely out of FB.
ALOT.
Then, if your ads are getting banged MORE than 1 time from the same IP on a very small timeframe...you know that isnt a scraper..thats a click bot there to do one thing. Bang you up to 5 times so you lose money and get out of that niche, or completely out of FB.
This could be partially to blame, but my gut tells me that there is something more going on. We are talking millions of clicks, assuming most are "losing" that 15%. This seems much more like an organized click-fraud attack than just some scraper/clicker mentioned above. In order to sustain an attack like this over a "respectable" period of time, it would require a sizable botnet. If this was done via only few IPs, FB would be able to see it (I hope!)...
Again, the best thing to do here is to contact FB and start bitching. I would also urge all of you to contact your friends and make them check their stats to see if they are experiencing the same. The vast majority of those that I contacted are having the same issues. Once the complaints snowball into something sizable, FB will not be able to ignore it.
Exactly! This is certainly not just a sum of all the scrapers out there. This seems much more like an organized attack via a sizable botnet. No way this would last just with few IPs making millions of "clicks."
Again, contact FB and start bitching, they will have to take notice
Since there's so many canadian IPs on there I'd say you're looking at some guy flipping IPs on a bunch of DSL connections. Not a botnet.
Actually, most of these fraudulent clicks never make it to your LP, so there are no IPs for you to see/analyze. They stop the redirect at the point where the click registers at FB but never will get to your destination URL. This is a classic click fraud tactic. The IPs that you do see (in your logs, etc) are probably something else. These "visible," seemingly fraudulent clicks could be these scrapers as they are harvesting the LP URLs and have to click-trough the entire chain to get the data. Those amount (in my case) to about 5% of total FB traffic received, while the "invisible" ones are in the 15%-20% range (in my case).
GIVE ME AN IP EXCLUSION TOOL AND RECORDS OF EACH IP PER CLICK I'M CHARGED FOR SO I CAN FIX THIS FUCKING BULLSHIT MYSELF. EVERY OTHER PPC PLATFORM DOES THIS.
I agree with you, we should have an IP exclusion tool.
However, the bulk of the problem seems to lay in bots/people clicking the ads that never hit our website/tracking. Therefore, we would never actually know the perpetrator's IP address. If we don't know it, how are we going to be able to block it with a tool?
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