Amazon Associates Click Bombing?

by westin

Posted: 9 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi, one of my Amazon affiliate tracking ID's overnight went from getting 1 or 2 clicks a day to 511 clicks a day (from 511 unique visitors). This is according to my Amazon Associates dashboard.

What is WEIRD is that per Google Analytics the website on which the links reside is only getting about 10 visitors a day. :confused:

I called Amazon...the rep could only say that it is indicative of some kind of electronic attack. A 'bot' of some sort.

Has anyone had this experience? Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?

#amazon #associates #bombing #bot #click #fraud

SunilTanna 9 years ago

It's probably some sort of errant search engine spider rather than attack.

Google's software probably recognises these visits as being from a spider, so doesn't count them.. Amazon's probably doesn't recognise them as being a spider, so does count them.

It happens, not much you can do about it, not worth worrying about.
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- westin 9 years ago
  
  Thanks Sunil. One of my sites that was having this problem had only one AMZ link on it. I deleted the link, but that tracking ID is still getting 16 clicks a day from 16 uniques, while only 2-3 uniques per day visit the site. How can my site still be generating clicks if it has no links on it?
  
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  SunilTanna 9 years ago
  
  Some spider has most likely cached the URL, and is going directly to the tracking URL.
  
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hbhanot 9 years ago

Make these links nofollow. I hope it will sort out. Not 100% sure though.
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seonutshell 9 years ago

Have the same thing. I dont think im being clickbombed so i think nothing of it.
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- tekken2 9 years ago
  
  I have this, maybe once a week every link in my site is clicked to Amazon. The analytics show no visitors to a page.
  
  The only problem is that it shoots my conversion rate and its hard to tell what my "real" conversion rates are.
  
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