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Richard Kahn: March 16, 2022
Pay-per-click (PPC), or cost-per-click (CPC), advertising has been around since the 1990’s. However, it really took off when Google, the search engine that most of the world uses today, launched their PPC Adwords service in 2002.
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Richard Kahn: February 10, 2022
While a lot of ad fraud is committed using bot programs that fill out forms and generate fake leads, those aren’t the only tools that fraudsters use. To make their click fraud and other ad fraud schemes even harder to identify, fraudsters may also...
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Richard Kahn: August 11, 2021
In early 2020, tech industry giant Google announced that it was removing 600 apps from the Google Play Store and banning the app makers from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager for “violating [Google’s] disruptive ads policy and disallowed...
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Anura PR Team: May 5, 2021
Click fraud and other forms of advertising fraud have been a problem for marketers for as long as online advertising has existed as a practice. So-called “click bots” have plagued marketing efforts by driving up the cost of clicks and impressions...
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Anura PR Team: May 3, 2021
When you’re a media buyer, you don’t want to purchase worthless traffic. It not only reflects badly on you, it hits you in your wallet... hard. Approximately 25% of all paid traffic is fraudulent. In 2020, $65 billion dollars were lost to ad fraud,...
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Anura PR Team: November 5, 2020
Fake users, fake clicks, fake leads. This is what you get when you fall victim to one of a growing number of fraudsters that are hijacking your advertising campaigns through the use of click fraud and click farms, all in order to steal your...
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Richard Kahn: September 4, 2019
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is widely regarded as one of the best investments a digital marketer can make. Google estimates an average $2 return for every $1 spent on Google Ads, while a recent study found that PPC website visitors are 50% more...
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Anura PR Team: February 1, 2018
In the early 2000s, pay per click (PPC) or CPC (cost per click) became the standard for online advertising. Advertisers looking to get their brands in front of online customers used PPC to place their ads on search engines, on websites, and even on ...
