0 the act of clicking repeatedly on an internet advertisement in order to make money for a website:
Traffic generators and click fraud can easily exaggerate website traffic.
A number of companies are developing viable solutions for click fraud identification and are developing intermediary relationships with advertising networks.
However, this can backfire when the publisher (not the friend) is accused of click fraud.
Some of the problems associated with search engine advertising is click fraud.
For example, click fraud can occur when a competitor clicks on ads to deplete its rival's advertising budget, or when publishers attempt to manufacture revenue.
Unlike fraud committed by the publisher, it is difficult to know who should pay when past click fraud is found.
This prompted some researchers to conduct public research on how the middlemen can fight click fraud.
Clicks coming from a computer known to be that of a publisher also look suspicious to those watching for click fraud.
Basic web browser configuration information has long been collected by web analytics services in an effort to accurately measure real human web traffic and discount various forms of click fraud.
