26. February 2008

India – Number 1 Click Fraud Country

India is the number 1 click fraud country as reported by ClickForensic

  • The overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 16.6 percent for Q4 2007. That’s up from the 14.2 percent click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 16.2 percent for Q3 2007.
  • The average click fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, was 28.3 percent in Q4 2007. That’s up from the 19.2 percent average click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 28.1 percent for Q3 2007.
  • The 2007 industry average click fraud rate grew by 15 percent over the industry average click fraud rate for 2006.
  • Q4 2007 click fraud traffic from botnets was 15 percent higher than click fraud traffic from botnets in Q3 2007.
  • In Q4 2007, the greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from India (4.3 percent) Germany (3.9 percent) and South Korea (3.7 percent).


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    1. Bobby From UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES) Wrote Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP on 27. February 2008 at 4:47 am

    Nice post. India? South Korea being up there doesn’t surprize me on bit either. Thats definitly interesting.

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    2. rajesh From NEPAL (NEPAL) Wrote Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP on 27. February 2008 at 2:39 pm

    good difination about Click Fraud Country

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    3. Gamer From NEPAL (NEPAL) Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Windows Windows XP on 14. March 2008 at 6:22 pm

    Oh so that’s why we publishers get paid for clicks from indian and other asian countries. These days most of the clicks are not even counted.

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    4. universiteler From TURKEY (TURKEY) Wrote Using Opera Opera 9.52 on Windows Windows XP on 09. October 2008 at 8:24 pm

    really interesting map, i think its acceptable map, thanks for write up that,

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    5. KDE GAUR From UNITED STATES (UNITED STATES) Wrote Using Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows Windows XP on 29. January 2009 at 1:09 am

    This is a blantant outright lie! PERIOD. Idiots! PROOVE IT! LETS SEE REALL HARDCORE PROOF!! Dumbasses! Either syop lying or tell the TRUTH! Get your facts right before defaming the reputation of a country such as India and target the ones who are the real bandits!!. India deserves better!

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    6. hersolution 110.137.225.184 not found Wrote Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on Mac OS Mac OS X on 22. February 2010 at 7:13 am

    Great post thanks.

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