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A clear sign of bot traffic? (11)


09-09-2017 08:58 AM #1 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Usually there are multiple IPs, especially on mobile where the IPs are shared across users.

Some geos also might have limited pool of IPs, but this seems a quite lot.

May I ask what country it is?


09-09-2017 09:06 AM #2 eurosen (AMC Alumnus)

This is a desktop campaign in Brazil.

So it is desktop traffic only.


09-11-2017 02:10 PM #3 rolandb ()

Have you checked out all of the following threads on bot tests?

https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...n-Any-Campaign
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...n-Bot-Detector
https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...s-what-I-found


09-11-2017 02:41 PM #4 zeropark (Senior Member)

Hey, eurosen!

We appreciate your attention to your campaigns. If you have any targets you suspect to be of low quality or bot, please send us a report by target. This is one of the cases why tracking is mandatory on our platform, to allow us the opportunity to investigate any claims. We also have a number of our own security checks put in place to identify low quality traffic in which, thereafter are banned from our system and all advertisers are immediately refunded the spend from those sources. It's in our best interest as well as our publishers to single out any suspicious traffic and find the source.


09-11-2017 02:55 PM #5 eurosen (AMC Alumnus)

@Rolandb, yes I have been using the Bot trap mentioned by Caurmen in one of the threads. Some IP adresses have a high ctr, some have a ctr of 0.

@Zeropark, I have hundreds of IP adresses which generate multiple visitors even though I have set the the uniqueness to 24 hours.

Slightly confused whether these are bots, what sort of cutoff would be good? 50 visits from a single IP a day is a bot? Or should I go for 100 visits?

Thanks


09-12-2017 10:18 AM #6 zeropark (Senior Member)

@eurosen, it's not quite easy to judge upon such matters using only one screenshot from Voluum. Ping us on support or PM us your ZP email, and we'll dig deeper in it.


09-12-2017 01:59 PM #7 eurosen (AMC Alumnus)

I have emailed you a few examples.


09-14-2017 06:32 PM #8 eurosen (AMC Alumnus)

@Zeropark, thanks for your investigation and refund.

Some of the traffic turned out to be suspicious traffic and they have refunded me for that traffic.


09-15-2017 08:43 AM #9 zeropark (Senior Member)

Thanks, @eurosen, for bringing up this thing. It was a cooperation for our mutual benefit!


09-15-2017 10:07 AM #10 caurmen (Administrator)

NIce! Good to hear.

I'm developing an updated bot detection script, for those interested - should be out in a few days.


09-15-2017 11:59 AM #11 rolandb ()

Thanks, looking forward to it @caurmen!


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