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- Which companies are uncheatable?
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There's no direct answer to
this question. It depends on the way you are using the program and on the
amount of real visitors your site gets.
Let me start with the means the program uses to simulate traffic. First off,
it is very hard to detect cheating by just looking at the HTTP headers that
the program sends or by implementing JavaScript protection in the banner
code. These methods of protection can be overcome programmatically and as
the program becomes more powerful with every new version, the harder it is
for ad companies to fight it. The program simulates most popular browsers,
operating systems, languages, correctly proccesses cookies, java scripts
(most of them) and what not. Most of those settings are customizable and it
is easy for the program user to set it up to current Internet statistics. So
the only possible way to detect cheating is by tracking the visits made from
public proxy servers. That is, the ad company must keep a list of currently
accessible public proxy servers. Then the IP of every incoming HTTP request
is compared against this list. If the percent of requests made via public
proxies exceeds some ad companies defined value (say 20%) then the webmaster
is considered to be cheating.
As far as I know the most "undesired" ad company for a clicker is Commission
Junction. This company detects cheats very fast and most of those who tried
to fool them failed. But I know a few guys who quite succeded by simply not
being too greedy. They have a good sites with a good amount of real
visitors. Say, if your site receives about 1000 visitors a day then it is
quite safe to make about 500 (or even 1000) artificial impressions using
Clicking Agent. This can double your revenue and keep you safe from being
detected. Also a fresh list of proxy servers always helps a great deal.
Usually it requires some time for an ad company to find new public proxies
and add them to their tracking system. If you manage to find those proxies
faster then you'll be a few steps ahead of them. But it's rather hard to do.
Finding fresh proxies is still a problematic task which every program user
has to solve on his own.
Well, summing up, you can cheat any ad company but only if you follow some
reasonable precautions. As a webmaster you should be familiar with all the
methods that can used to track artificial clicks. It's up to you to find
right ways to go around them. And Clicking Agent can be a great tool in good
hands.
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 Submit a bug
When submitting a bug report please include the following information:
- Your operating system version
- Processor type
- Amount of installed RAM
- Detailed description of the error
- How to reproduce the bug
- The Clicking Agent error report file (error.log) located in the installation directory
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 Help request
For faster responce please let me know some details regarding your question
(if applicable):
- Your hardware and operating system details
- The URL of your page where you host the banner in question
- Banner code with which you have problems
- Ad company which provided you with the banner code
- Detailed description of the problem
- Access to your banner statistics
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 Suggestion
I would highly appreciate your comments and suggestions for future program versions.
If you have any feature in mind and would like it to be implemented in the program
please don't hesitate to let me know about it. I will consider every single of your
ideas and will do my best to bring it to life.
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