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Ad Fraud

The Impact of Fraud Form Fills on Lead Generation

on October 29, 2020 | By Anura PR Team

Lead generation fraud is a big concern for all businesses that rely on digital marketing to meet specific goals. The goal of lead generation is for a prospective buyer to fill out a form and request more information. When a nefarious human or a bot fills out a form with information belonging to...

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SEO

Web Scraping and How it Affects Your Digital Marketing Campaigns

on October 22, 2020 | By Anura PR Team

You have done it. You have had your writers put together a series of killer blogs and articles that perfectly reach your target audience. You have made sure they are informative and unique, interesting while still helping to sell your product, perfect SEO, with the keywords you labored over for...

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Ad Fraud

The Bad Guys of Online Fraud

on October 15, 2020 | By Kyle Buzzard

I often still get questions like, "what is ad fraud? why does it matter?" Ad fraud is a complex system of attacks designed to siphon money from your marketing campaigns. It can take many forms, impact nearly any marketing channel and pop up (and sometimes disappear) at any moment. If you're...

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Bots

What is a bot? How do bots impact your digital ad campaigns?

on October 8, 2020 | By Anura PR Team

How much money do you spend on ads per month? Some companies dedicate as much as millions of dollars per month towards getting their ads in front of the right people. Unfortunately, a percentage of that is unknowingly wasted money. According to The Wall Street Journal, Adobe found that 28% of...

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Ad Fraud

Block Malicious Bots from Targeting Your Company

on October 1, 2020 | By Richard Kahn

Over the last few years, bots have entered the mainstream. In case you’re still new to the world of bots, here’s a brief primer: Very simply, bots—short for “robots”—are automated software programs designed to carry out specific tasks. At a high level, bots tackle repetitive tasks that folks would...

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Ad Fraud

Ad Stacking Fraud Is Easy To Detect, If You Know What To Look For

on September 24, 2020 | By Richard Kahn

Ad fraud is a growing problem, with fraudsters devising a seemingly never-ending number of methods designed to take money out of your pockets and hurt your campaigns. In fact, according to Juniper Research, the ad fraud problem is expected to reach $100 billion by 2023, more than doubling from the...

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Bots

How To Stop Bot Traffic

on September 22, 2020 | By Anura PR Team

Businesses rely on website traffic to generate leads, encourage conversions, and maintain a strong brand. If your website is at risk of attacks from malicious bots, your entire business is at risk. While stopping bot traffic may seem like a daunting task, the solution can be surprisingly simple....

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Click Fraud

What Role Does Click Fraud Play in Affiliate Marketing?

on September 17, 2020 | By Richard Kahn

In the digital age, it has never been easier to make money online. Unfortunately, since criminals tend to go where there’s money to be made, a number of them have figured out how to game the system, so to speak, and steal big dollars out of advertisers’ pockets.

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