{"id":446,"date":"2021-09-10T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=446"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:36:23","slug":"how-can-i-block-fake-google-ads-clicks","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/how-can-i-block-fake-google-ads-clicks-446\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I block fake Google Ads clicks?"},"content":{"rendered":"TraceMyIP has the capability to <strong>detect fake<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/good-and-bad-bots-how-they-impact-websites-2796\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"65\" title=\"Good and Bad Bots: How They Impact Websites\">bots<\/a> initiated<\/strong>, or intentionally <strong>repeated human clicks<\/strong> for advertising campaigns. When you observe on your logs that an invalid ads click is detected, you can utilize the detected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/what-is-an-ip-address-127\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"14\" title=\"What is an IP address?\">IP address<\/a> for Google Ads excluded IP list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong>Invalid AD campaign clicks<\/strong> are a common occurrence. This could be either a result of a <strong>competition retaliation<\/strong> in order to deplete the advertising budget of competing parties, a <strong>malicious visitor activity<\/strong>, or a bot activity that repeatedly scans the pages by following the advertising links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">For more information on dealing with invalid Google Ads clicks, see the following page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwords\/answer\/42995?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwords\/answer\/42995?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has the capability to detect fake, bots initiated, or intentionally repeated human clicks for advertising campaigns. When you observe on your logs that an invalid ads click is detected, you can utilize the detected IP address for Google Ads excluded IP list. Invalid AD campaign clicks are a common occurrence&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[49],"ht-kb-tag":[59,58],"class_list":["post-446","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-faq","ht_kb_tag-campaigns","ht_kb_tag-invalid-clicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/446\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracemyip.org\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}