Click fraud on Facebook?

I don't know but I don't think I'm going to run more FB ads. Run them twice now. Very targeted campaigns. Facebook showed traffic being delivered but not one single conversion. The first day of the campaign, the traffic was around 400 and decreased to 1/3 of that every other day. Wasn't worth the money for me.

Maybe the facebook users were using a proxy or the clicks were coming from fake facebook users

Been googling this issue, this is worth a read Facebook Ads 80% Bot Claim, Examined! Why You Shouldn?t Lose Faith Just Yet - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)

Personally I had very bad experience with facebook ads over and over again. Clearly fake users are clicking every ad they see ( profiles with thousands of like, not related to anything), now the only question is who hires those fakers, is it Facebook or someone else..
But' it's a 100 Billion dollars question, so I doubt anyone could make a thorough investigation on this.
p.s. for some (stupid) reason, I keep trying facebook ads again and again, just to curse it again and again.

If i was you, i would get hold of CNN news and have then check this program out.

It was funny when facebook when public, there public stock when down like a rock. If there faking there advertising cost, sound like there trying doing something in the company to prop up there advertising cost.

Most of big companies pulled there advertising from facebook.

So, someone should call them out on there fake advertising.

I've tried 5 or 6 different Facebook ad campaigns, with all different types of ads from promoted posts to the regular old ads. I've never lost money on any of them, but the marginal profits are no longer worth the trouble.

How are you doing the re-direct? If I'm hearing your story right, then there's another middle man between facebook and getresponse.

Facebook is good place for advertisement. If you think most are bots, please track your links.

Facebook didn't work for my niche...It must be working for other people's But I guess they're screaming loud now since they're losing $$$ to possible click fraud.

Some dikh**d out there is sitting with a bunch of facebook bots and raging facebook I bet!

I too suspect there is something wrong with those clicks. I just ran a test with an ad, facebook reported 56 clicks..But the analytics code reported only 17. This is wrong, very wrong..It is strange too that when you run a CPC campaign clicks start to pop up from everywhere (seems facebook wants the money...On the other hand on CPM mode, it barely gets any click..

Really..??

does it really exist at Facebook ads..

ohh..i Must be careful..

When I post an ad to get likes for my fan page I seem to get what looks like fake accounts liking my page...a lot of them come from the middle east and india...did you guys get the same results?

Reality is, FB is not the gold bastion of advertising it has set out to be. Yes, ads can be successful with research, but you must think long and hard whether it is profitable for you in the long run. Most of what you hear about how amazing it is is marketing hype, or from fan pages who already have a large following. It's a case of the haves and the have-nots. Don't ever use it as your sole means of reaching an audience.

those likes are definitely from bots, not real likes/visitors, i advertised 2/3 times but facebook disappointed me!

I've never had that issue, FB's numbers are where they should be compared to external tracking. It seems like your setup is likely incorrect -- for example, the destination URL of your link has a typo in it and doesn't bring people to the page you're tracking traffic to.



I've only seen high bot activity on FB page "like" campaigns, not ads linking to external sites.

We did a bit of research into this since our original blog post back in August about how Facebook advertising had become quite ineffective since their IPO.

We wrote our own version of the traffic logging script that was used by Limited Run which checked for the missing JavaScript enabled in the browsers of visitors, however failed to yield the same result. All traffic did in fact have JavaScript enabled.

That said, more studies have come out since then about Facebook's Ad fatigue problem, whereby (in our experience) an ad is only effective for quite a brief period of time only and then needs to be replaced with a fresh ad (or rotated amongst other ads) in order to maintain a high level of traffic. On average about 2 days worth of converting traffic (lead generation only, not sales) before the ad would just chew up the ad budget with clicks that don't do anything any more.

The answers we've gotten back from Facebook say that they try to target the ad to the most interested demographic first (which is why there is a spike in the quality of traffic received)... but then must just start showing your ad to 3rd world countries that are just click-happy :/

Hi,

I ran a FB campaign two weeks ago and they charged me 35 cents a click (125 Clicks later) and I have to tell you that I was very disappointed in the results, I check my GA and the traffic did not even show from any FB ADS... Waste of Money if you ask me!

there are a lot of angry facebook users that create posts telling users to click on all their facebook ads and ignore the website. Their thought behind this is... Facebook are taking advantage of our personal data, so we will screw with their advertisers

I would also suggest you check your targeting. I've had success with Facebook ads above any beyond any of the other networks. Their traffic is genuine, as the traffic has consistently resulted in sales - and some very good customers too.

my face box about 3 month but no body like, event i have like to them. Could you tell me more hơ to make more like to you. NEW and HOT news?
the shock picture? or funny picture is the way the good?

I'll never give ad in Facebook. I have had my lessons. They all are fraud.

Facebook is highly saturated these days, so the clicks you might be getting are not in fact genuine or must be a case of click fraud as you put it. If I were you, you should check on other ad networks for a change.

Why dont you use tracking with google analytics its free and easy then you would know the answer