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Showing posts with label Computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computers. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

How Google tracks website ads clicks


How Google tracks ads click

How Google tracks ads click

 Here are some ( but not all ) via which Google can detect fraudulent Clicks and as webiste or blog owners you should avoid them:

1. IP Address:

The primary source of your presence on Internet is your IP address. Google search engine checks which IP address that the click has been initiated from. If it has been originated from the very same IP address which was previously logged in to the AdSense account or any other account of yours like Gmail, Blogger,  then you’re commiting a mistake by clicking the ads on your own website. If the same IP address is constantly clicking ads on a website, then it might be either invalid clicks or click fraud.

2. Cookies:

Lets speak about dynamic and static IP addresses. When you connect to the internet, a DHCP server assigns a IP address to every machine it serves. This ip addresses are dynamic in nature , i.e they change every time you connect to the internet. There are other parameters too in changing the IP like reconnect or lease time. That is why you have different IP address when you go online. But some people use the static IP address which is bind to the machine they use. 

However, if Google has implemented a cookie on your computer, simply getting a new IP address won’t help when you’re committing click fraud. As the cookies contains actual user details.

3. Click through rate (CTR):

Usually a website's CTR  does not go above 10%, it hovers between 0.5% to 9%. If a website is receiving a CTR above 10% that means the website might have a unusual activity and big G -AdSense might have to ask a real person to review the activities going on the website and they will confirm if any terms or condition is not broken. Once they find any fraud activity , AdSense account will be blocked. Unless you are not breaking any terms, you are good boy in the eyes of Santa.

4. GEO-location:

Kind of like IP addresses. Google knows from where the clicks are originating and will most likely see a pattern if one comes up. Let’s say you’re smart enough to use different P addresses to commit click fraud, but you’re stupid enough to place all your computers in one town. Google analytics is one tool that can give you an idea how GEO-location targeting works.

5. Your hardware address (MAC address):

Every computer has its “fingerprint” which is a MAC address. This address is put on your hardware instead of your software, so it never changes or goes away. It is possible that Google might track invalid click this way, but not very likely since they have more advanced ways.

6. Advertiser conversion rate:

The conversion rate of the advertisers are really important. If none of your clicks leads to a conversion, such as a sale, lead, newsletter sign-up or similar for the advertiser, then you are sending very poor traffic. At first you might get hit by smart pricing, after that you might get banned. A low conversion rate for advertisers can be the sign of invalid click.

7. Traffic consistency:

If your website is getting huge load of traffic instead of steady hits from different search engine website, in that case, you can have a little trouble. If Big G detects that the behaviour is indifferent and huge hits to the ads,  then it can mark it as fraud click. If your website is not even indexed in the search engines yet but is still receiving a decent amount of clicks then something must be wrong, and AdSense is the first one to spot.

8. Website/Ads layout:

If your website is using a strategically placed ads layout which would fool visitors to click your ads by disguising them as regular links or some other strategy, in that case - you are walking on thin sheet of ice. You are not allowed to cover or edit your ads, nor are you allowed to make them blend in too well with the rest of your content. By doing so you might be generating a lot of invalid clicks from people who didn’t know that they were actually clicking an ad. You are also not allowed to encourage ad click by saying things like “all the money generated through ads goes to people in need” or “click the ads!”.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

How to disable Addons And Extensions for your browsers


Quick Steps to Remove Web browser and  Addons and Extension

Add-ons, Extensions you must have heard them definetly. The are quick support that are developed by community for solving problems or providing some solutions. For example, AdBlock is one of the famous Addon available across different browser.
Disable Addons
 


Chrome

If you are using Chrome, below are the steps to be followed

  • Open Google Chrome browser.
  • Open Menu from top Right option
  • In the drop-down menu that appears, click on More Tools, and then go to the Extensions option.
  • In the Extensions tab, from the list of extensions choose the one which you need to disable or remove.
  • To disable the extension, click the toggle switch at the bottom-right of the extension box so that it turns gray. To remove it, click the Remove button.
  • List of extensions in Google Chrome.

Firefox
If you are using Firefox,  below are the steps to be followed

  • Open the Mozilla Firefox browser.
  • From the upper right corner of browser ,click on Open Menu icon
  • Click the Add-ons icon from the drop down menu
  • Then click on Extensions from the left pane
  • Find the required extension that you would like to remove or turn it off (disable)
  • On the right pane of the extension, click on the Disable button.

Microsoft Edge
If you are using Edge,  below are the steps to be followed

  • Open the Microsoft Edge browser.
  • Click More icon from the upper-right corner
  • Select Extensions from the menu
  • Right-click the extension you  want to remove or disable, and then click on Turn off 
  • You can click on Uninstall to remove it.

Opera

If you are using Opera,  below are the steps to be followed

  • Open Opera browser.
  • From the upper-left corner click on Menu option
  • and then click Extensions option
  • If you want to disable the add-on, click on the Disable button.
  • To uninstall the add-on you need to move the mouse pointer to the upper-right corner of the extension, and then click on cross i.e 'X' icon Button.

Internet Explorer

If you are using Internet Explorer,  below are the steps to be followed

    • Open Internet Explorer
    • Click Internet Explorer Tools and then click on Manage add-ons
    • From the Manage add-ons screen you need to find the addon that you want to remove
    • Select it and click the Disable button at the bottom right

    Finally , If you really want to remove all the addons completely from the browser, the best way would be to locate the location where the add-on files were installed in your system and then you have to delete manually. 
    Add-Remove Programs for Windows OS can also be used if you know the addon name and it was installed as a software/program on your machine.

    Friday, June 5, 2020

    [Solved] How to fix the missing Address bar



    Quick TIP to Resolve disappeared URL bar

    Every Browser behaves strange including Google Chrome. I had an instance where address bar went missing and I had no clue how to bring it back. Funny isn't it! How will you search google query to fix the problem. (Ofcourse! you can try another browser :) ).                               
    Below are the solution which you can try to resolve the disappeared URL Address Bar
    • Browser has full screen mode and you might have pressed F11 to take your browser to full screen mdoe. Press the F11 key to exit fullscreen mode. The address bar is not visible when the Internet browser is in fullscreen mode.
    • In case you are 'stuck' with  IE - Internet Explorer, then you have to  click the  View or Tools in the menu bar  which will can be seen at the top of the browser window screen, then  click on Toolbars, then select Address or Address bar. If the Menu bar is missing, press the Alt key to make it visible.
    • Alternate way would be to find the Add-ons OR Extensions which you might have installed in your browser which must have set the address bar/ URL bar hidden. With trial-error method can can find out which add-on has caused it and keep it Disabled. You can click here to know more about - How to remove Browser Extension
    • Finally, if none of the above g33ktricks does not work, the browser must have gone bad and Uninstalling and the re-install should fix the issue for sure.