Has anyone had that happen to him? Eg. buy traffic from xyz source >> send it to some pin submit offer and then wake up to an email from your AM saying that because your traffic was filled with bots you are kicked off the CPA networks.
How do you defend yourself against situations like this? Setup tracking >> buy only small amounts (eg. 5000 clicks per banner?) of traffic >> analyze conversion% depending on placement + talk to AM for lead quality assessment >> blacklist shitty placements >> slowly increase volume?
Thanks!
Don't really see a reason for the network to kick you unless you're getting paid on a CPM or CPC basis. As for CPA, bots generally don't buy stuff so sending bots won't get you paid (unless the conversion form seriously sucks)
Another reason you might potentially get kicked for bot traffic is that the amount of traffic you're sending are just absurd and cause the advertisers' site to slow down. What amount of hits are we talking about?
Sounds weird to me, I dont see what the problem is about sending fake traffic to an offer
We have pulled publishers for this from an offer per advertiser request. I cant say if it was bot traffic and it dosnt really matter, if the advertiser does not want someone running their offer we must honor that.
Ive seen issues come up with large amounts on non converting traffic to product related offers and large amounts of the wrong geo going to an offer.
I do not recall ever banning someone from our network for this.
I been kicked out cos i did not send any traffic, but bots that does not convert lol...thats a new one.
Some bot traffic will fill in forms and actually sign up for offers. It's much less common than standard click-fraud traffic but it does happen.
I don't have much advice on how to combat it, I'm afraid, other than a) bot testing and b) proactive communication with your AM. If you let them know when you're testing an unknown traffic source they're less likely to panic and reach for the banhammer, but obviously that does depend on how good your relationship is with your AM.
there are tools networks usually use to QA their traffic, can be fraudlogix or forensiq for example, due to their price it's not the tools small publishers would often use to defend themselves.
Has anyone ever heard of bot downloading app from Stores?
Easy way to prove you're not the one fraudi g is sending a screen shot of the campaign and traffic source with the dates of traffic selected.
Ideally a top level view so they can see the clicks match up roughly. This is fairly standard practice for us if there's any issues with fraud and the affiliate claims the traffic is bought.
For email we make them do the same thing. Just of the email platform with dates and the day of the drop.