Search network solutions for click quality, traffic quality, click scoring, click fraud audit, click fraud monitoring, solutions for click fraud, traffic quality management




Anchor Intelligence enables search networks to optimize monetization opportunities and provide an unprecedented level of transparency and control to their advertisers.
Using Anchor’s proprietary click quality solutions, search networks can distinguish between clicks that have a high probability of converting on an advertiser’s site and clicks that appear to be highly suspicious. Based on these insights, search networks can adjust pricing to enable advertisers to bid more for better quality traffic. Search networks can also filter out segments of unwanted traffic, or provide advertisers with insight on factors that influence click quality scores to inform targeting decisions.



Click fraud is the practice of artificially inflating traffic on advertisements,
with no interest in the target of the advertisement. There are several motives that can drive someone to engage in click fraud. One motive is direct monetary gain.  Publishers can make money by inflating the number of clicks on ads that appear on their site. For example, a blogger who posts several ads on his site can profit by using malicious software to automate clicks on his site. He can also hire low cost workers to click his ads. The second motive involves creating unfair competitive advantage.  Imagine a local real estate agent who seeks to drain her competitors’ ad budget by clicking on their ads. As a result, her ads show up for users looking for a real estate agent in her city since her competitor has run out of ad budget. This may also mislead her competitor to stop buying particular keywords since the fraudulent clicks will skew the performance of the effected campaigns.

Traffic Quality Monitoring: Anchor Intelligence's traffic quality monitoring solutions provide search networks with the ability to assess each click as it happens on their site. A click gets immediately processed using our real time models and matched against our click reputation databases. This determines the quality of that click. Previous behavior, current patterns, and reputation are all factored into the quality score determination. Search networks can integrate click quality scores into reporting and billing systems to provide a granular view of traffic quality, reconcile click counts, and filter out poor quality traffic.

Click Fraud Audit: Anchor Intelligence's click fraud audit provides search networks with a snapshot of the quality of traffic in their network over a given period. This investigation enables search networks to assess the effectiveness of their existing click fraud detection methods and identify gaps in monitoring. Using a sample of data over several months, Anchor Intelligence runs its portfolio of fraud audit tools to measure and report suspicious activity on every click during that period of time. The Audit Report provides various views of fraudulent click activity including trends over time, top categories of fraud, referring sources of fraud, and targeted keywords. The Audit report also provides deep drill downs into specific fraudulent sessions to enable search networks to improve their fraud detection rules and methods.





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