Too many clicks?

[aqls]

I don't want to pee on anyone's party here, but for me a whole load of domains have just woken up.

I was worried because they are mostly quite good ones and weren't getting anything for a long time but now have suddenly gone wild.

Anyone else notice anything strange?

Either someone has been taking these clicks for a couple of months to their own benefit (dns hacker anyone?) and who has now stopped, or something else has happened.

I don't want to stop them but I also don't want to be penalised if someone is falsifying my revenues.

Am I alone?

Am I alone?

I am alone.

-aqls-

 

[aqls]

Guess it was just a random lucky night!

-aqls-

 

[NameDriver]

Guess it was just a random lucky night!

Sounds saucy.

If you PM (or preferably mail) me some of the domains, I can have a shufti to see if anything is 'going on'.

Ed

 

[NameDriver]

Ach, these are showing bot characteristics. 100% CTR, a US click on a UK name with normally no traffic. We will most likely as not receive nothing from Google and the click will be updated to $0.02. At least you get that for a click for which we receive nothing from the Goog.
Nasty things, they change their behaviour every month and come back for a click or two.
We will destroy.
Thanks for the heads up.

Ed

 

[aqls]

. . . when I woke up next morning and saw it without the makeup and wig . . .

-aqls-

 

[NameDriver]

I get the feeling there is no-one else here.

 

[aqls]

 

[NameDriver]

Just a quick update on this.
Towards the end of last week, we were again hit by the evil people from Cyveillance. Those guys really are rampant and generated mid XX,XXX amounts of clicks within the space of 24 hours on our system. So you probably all saw an increase in clicks yesterday while PPC also dropped as many of these clicks would have been knocked down to our bot click PPC of $0.02. Luckily, we caught them faster than we have before, but they always come back with new IP ranges and are not easily identifiable until they have started to do their damage.

We have plenty of bot traps and measures in place but cannot find any sort of definitive, professional anti rogue bot database. Does anybody know where we can get our hands on one? Cheers.

Ed