Thursday, April 3, 2008

Exposing Adengage Publisher's Click Fraud

Evidence has come to light that points to major click fraud coming from the Adengage advertising network.

It would appear that Adenage, Inc., is providing the tools necessary for a host of publishers to send tens of thousands of blind, low-quality clicks to well-meaning and unsuspecting advertisers.

Many publishers have been caught using porn and other unrelated image to mask portions of the text and images that many advertisers believed would be used to encourage people to visit their sites. Instead dog owner forums and penny stock trading sites are getting clicks from images that feature girls in thongs and large breasted women.

I can tell you that if I were spending money for online advertising I would not be happy with the sources of this traffic. Would you enjoy knowing that these deceptive methods were being used to burn through your ad budget?