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Audience Lab is a secret weapon for political advertisers

Biznology

Display and contextual advertising is surprisingly rife with click fraud and even the best sellers of segments are firing for effect when it comes to reaching the demographic audiences they are selling to advertisers.

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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

Click Fraud: A specially programmed CTR bot looks for the site’s main keywords and branded terms, then clicks on the listing, only to quickly bounce back to the search engine request page. Forceful Crawling: Slowing down websites is an easy way for negative SEO practitioners to cause damage.

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12 Marketing Metrics Your Boss Probably Doesn't Need to Hear About

Hubspot

In other words, thanks to the ever-increasing number of hackers engaging in impression and click fraud, a significant number of impressions and clicks on your display ads could actually be robots. Unfortunately, a percentage of the people filling out the forms on your landing pages are inevitably be spam.

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How to Avoid the ABM Trough of Disillusionment

Engagio

Buyers are overwhelmed by this noise, and will immediately throw away anything uninteresting, hit “SPAM” on emails that smell like sales, and ignore your ads (no matter how targeted they may be). In fact, you’re more likely to survive a plane crash, get into Harvard, or win the lottery, than have someone click on your banner ad.

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The Role of AI in Marketing – And the Critical Importance of HI, CI, and GI

Webbiquity

Fraud Detection: AI can identify and prevent fraudulent activities, such as click fraud in online advertising, saving marketing budgets from wasteful spending (except when it “detects” false positives ). However, it can help marketers create blog posts, product descriptions, and social media updates more efficiently.