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There are many steps you can take to protect yourself from getting swindled by your internet marketing agency. While there may be plenty of errant webmasters and freelance scammers looking to dismantle your hard work, learning how to make your site and content impervious to fraud is a very important step in internet marketing.

Take, for example, the recent actions of Webrageous, which is a management company based out of Reno that specializes in pay per click. Webrageous serves as a wonderful example for the online advertising industry. A recent study by Webrageous found that the amount of online advertisers getting cheated out of ad money through click fraud is on the rise.

One of the most troubling dilemmas revealed by the study is that most of these advertisers don’t even realize when the click fraud in underway. Advertisers who participated in the study had assumed that their efforts were failing due to lousy campaigns. Really, the root of the problem was click fraud, and they had no idea.

The study also showed that because so many companies found themselves losing money in advertising, fewer campaigns were sticking around and trying to fix the problem as a result. This is a shame, seeing as the benefits of an online marketing campaign can be sky high.

Search engines like Google are always keeping an eye out for click fraud and doing their best to shut it down. But human error happens, and sometimes this inspection fails to be thorough. Here are some other ways that you can guard against fraud yourself.

1. Install Captcha for contact forms if you think that click fraud might be happening to you. If you find yourself receiving a lot of fake or spam-seeming emails through the contact form on your website, it might be possible that people or bots are filling out the contact forms to disguise their click fraud. Captcha stops robots from filling out these forms, and can also help PPC managers figure out where click fraud is coming from.

2. Tracking protocol addresses is a good way to detect click fraud. If it comes to your attention that there are many clicks on your advertisement coming from the same IP address, this could be a symptom of click fraud.

3. Use geographic targeting tools to make your advertisements highly targeted only to the people who might be interested in them. This will weed out the people who might be committing click fraud. These tools used withi
PPC campaigns can definitely block ads from appearing in certain countries and lower your risk factor.

Above all, keep an eye out for unusual activity, spikes in clicks, or lots of clicks on one specific keyword. Also look for differences between click through an conversion rates. These obvious signs of click fraud are easy to act on if you know how to proceed. The most important thing is to not get discouraged if you find yourself a victim of click fraud. It is easy to shut down as long as you are able to identify it.