Social Media Examiner | Facebook ad – click fraud? | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/feed/ Facebook ad – click fraud? - Forum Topic in the Group Facebook Thu, 23 May 2013 06:41:00 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41894<![CDATA[Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41894 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:25:46 +0000 Andrea Vahl replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook There have been several posts about this, @ivankamenken but the allegations were for click bots as  @scottlinklater said.  
I have heard of others having weird Likes with advertising too - very untargeted which […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41871<![CDATA[Ian Pace replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41871 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:31:57 +0000 Ian Pace replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook To be fair even if the fake accounts are not from facebook, they could very easily combat this issue by not counting clicks from profiles that are not a certain age/ have little activity.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41870<![CDATA[Scott Linklater replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41870 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:25:00 +0000 Scott Linklater replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook Facebook aren't doing Fakes, they are bots that are doing the fake clicks (not sent by facebook at all) but the issue is what percentage of clicks are bots and how much do facebook know??? I'm starting to think […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41824<![CDATA[Ian Pace replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41824 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:55:47 +0000 Ian Pace replied to the forum topic Facebook ad – click fraud? in the club Facebook Surely if they were to make fake accounts for clicks they would at least set them to private so people can't see?
Another option would be another company trying to destroy facebooks revenue stream by making people […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41806<![CDATA[Mac replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41806 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:46:24 +0000 Mac replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook I can't imagine FB doing fakes about adverttising - but geeze it would be an exciting story if it was true.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41803<![CDATA[Claudia Poeckl replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41803 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:19:33 +0000 Claudia Poeckl replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook I haven't noticed any fraud so far. Maybe it's because my ad budget is so low and I'm not interesting for FB ;-)I made it a habit to check out all new fans - not because I wanted to see if they are real, but I […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41786<![CDATA[Ivanka Menken replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41786 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:52:16 +0000 Ivanka Menken replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook My Facebook ads were for likes and were supposed to be only open to the following target audience:
This sponsored story targets 255,460 users:who live in Australiawho live within 50 miles of Brisbane, QLDwho are […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41783<![CDATA[Scott Linklater replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/facebook/forum/topic/facebook-ad-click-fraud/#post-41783 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:43:33 +0000 Scott Linklater replied to the forum topic Facebook ad - click fraud? in the club Facebook I'm very suss to this facebook ad fraud after seeing a page get a huge amount of likes from ads and produce virtually zero engagement.It just made no sense that these people would be clicking the ads, liking the […]

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