Nuffnang Cost-Per-Click (CPC) campaigns, which pay bloggers based on the number of clicks generated on the ads is taking hit from click fraudsters. What is my take on this? No difference because my blogs seldom get awarded with their campaigns.
That's because my blog traffic majority are from the North America. And even if Nuffnang decided to give me some campaigns, it be related to cigarettes and alcohols, since their Muslim members would reject those kind of ads campaign.
Nuffnang, in fact should scrutinize their member's blogs. I mean, some bloggers have boasted to receive hundreds of Ringgit from Nuffnang yet their blogs are pretty much a personal rambling, devoid of real issues and contents. The only way for low ranking blogs to earn lots of money is from unusual activities.
According to Nuffang's broadcast mail, certain groups have been engaging in the CPC click fraud, which is defined as clicking on CPC advertisements intentionally just to generate earnings for a blog's owner. While some of you may just be anxious about earning some side income from displaying the banner ads, but do note that this is in fact a violation of Nuffnang Terms & Conditions under Section 6.
Among some of the actions which constitute click fraud are;
- clicking on other bloggers' ads and leaving a comment behind asking/hinting to the owner to click on their ads back
- asking for blog visitors' help to click on the ads
- registering a large number of blogs and clicking on ads on each of them
- repeatedly switching to a different IP to click on own ads
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