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04-17-2012 03:59 PM #1 doppelganger (Member)
Same IP keeps clicking on my ads

Some days I will have certain IPs that will keep clicking on my ads over and over. I notice it the most on FB but I have seen it on POF too. It is not always limited to one campaign either. I've seen the same IP click repeatedly on ads for different offers. Over the weekend I had one IP clicking on my FB ads over and over for a span of 5 hours.

Is it probably a bot or scraper?

I was curious how some of you guys deal with this. Do you redirect the IP or block it? Do you just ignore it?

Thanks,
Aaron

04-17-2012 04:15 PM #2 hd2010 (Member)

post the ip address here, we can help you to lookup for more clues

04-17-2012 05:45 PM #3 doppelganger (Member)

Here's an example of one. I had 23 clicks from this IP on Saturday and another 20 clicks today.
77.103.147.73

04-17-2012 06:56 PM #4 seank (Member)

Hmmm... so it's somebody whose ISP is Virgin Media that lives in Woking..

http://ip2location.com/
http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/77.103.147.73

I'd block them as follows..
put this into your .htaccess file in the root of your domain:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
order deny,allow
deny from 77.103.147.73
allow from all

This will drop all connections from this IP.

Sean

04-17-2012 07:02 PM #5 doppelganger (Member)

@seank - Thanks, I saw that too. I was wondering if you guys block IPs like this or just ignore them. I suppose I could have some fun with it and redirect them to the page of my choice

I was just curious how most of you handle these.

04-17-2012 08:39 PM #6 mike05 (Member)

Wouldn't they need to be logged in to click your ads? Sounds more like click fraud than a bot.

04-17-2012 09:37 PM #7 manishmehra (Member)

Hey Aaron,

That's nota good sign,Block the user right away!

I also been through such a prob.....

04-17-2012 09:44 PM #8 crysper (Member)

Maybe it's competition and it's playing a bit with you just to annoy you

04-17-2012 10:11 PM #9 doppelganger (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by manishmehra View Post
That's nota good sign,Block the user right away!

I also been through such a prob.....
Would you like to elaborate? You make it sound very ominous.

Maybe it's competition and it's playing a bit with you just to annoy you
This has crossed my mind. It's very possible.

04-18-2012 12:03 AM #10 nusolutionz (Veteran Member)

If you get the same amount of clicks every day i'd say its an ad scraper. So you could block the ip. But in the end you're not going to win because they change ips frequently and new scrapers come up. And since your paying cpm i wouldn't worry too much.

Or redirect him somewhere else and have some fun...

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04-18-2012 12:12 AM #11 zeno (Administrator)

If you're paying CPM they'd be helping you really. But if you're not, then they are a pain in the ass. You could always contact Facebook and ask to be refunded on those clicks, if you can provide solid proof it is fraudulent traffic then they might refund it. I'm sure someone here got a tonne of out-of-geo clicks refunded at some point.

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