{"id":438,"date":"2016-06-09T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/?p=438"},"modified":"2016-06-09T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:09:33","slug":"setting-up-click-fraud-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/setting-up-click-fraud-alerts","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Click Fraud Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Improvely can monitor the clicks on your ads for signs of potential click fraud, such as someone clicking any combination of your ads several times in a day. You can enable or disable this monitoring from the Click Fraud Settings tab located in your <a href=\"choosing-your-project-settings\">project&#8217;s settings page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following settings can be changed on this page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><b>Enable click fraud monitoring:<\/b> When checked, Improvely&#8217;s click fraud monitoring system will analyze the clicks on all tracking links in your project for signs of potential click fraud.<\/p>\n<p>When unchecked, clicks will be tracked and appear in your reports, but they will not be monitored for fraud and will not generate any fraud-related alerts or warnings to you or your site visitors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>Max ad clicks:<\/b> You can change this value to tell Improvely how many times it should allow any individual person to click any combination of your ad tracking links in a 24 hour period before considering their activity potentially fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Only after this number of clicks are recorded in a 24 hour period will the visitor see your warning message. Only after this number of clicks are recorded in a 24 hour period will a Click Fraud Alert be added to your account, and e-mailed to you.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><b>Warning message:<\/b> When any individual clicks any combination of your ad tracking links more than the <b>max ad clicks<\/b> number of times in a 24 hour period, their click will direct them to a special webpage containing a warning message instead of to your website.<\/p>\n<p>In this box, you can type the warning message you want to be displayed. The message may contain limited HTML code such as text formatting and links.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tip:<\/b> You can click your own tracking links without triggering fraud alerts by <a href=\"excluding-ip-addresses-from-tracking\">excluding your IP address from tracking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvely can monitor the clicks on your ads for signs of potential click fraud, such as someone clicking any combination of your ads several times in a day. You can enable or disable this monitoring from the Click Fraud Settings tab located in your project&#8217;s settings page. The following settings can be changed on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.improvely.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}