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A Solution to Click Fraud?

Wed Oct 8, 2008 3:43pm EDT
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) innovations can help companies save online
advertising dollars

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- OBSNews.com -- Search engines have come
to dominate how many of us use the internet, and Google and other search
engines have generated billions of dollars in pay per click advertising
revenues as a result. One phenomenon that has plagued the industry from its
early days has many businesses worried about their bottom lines: click fraud.
    Many businesses that choose to use a paid search strategy in their
marketing efforts, also known as a search engine marketing (SEM) strategy, on
the major and niche search engines, are continuously looking for ways to
prevent malicious clicks from competitors or other web-malcontents on their
ads to protect their internet ad budgets, company profits, and, ultimately,
shareholder value.
    Search Engine eZanga.com Steps Up
    One search engine, a 'meta' search engine, or one that aggregates the
results of other search engines, eZanga (http://www.eZanga.com), has
introduced proprietary technologies on their internal network that detect and
protect against click fraud efforts in real time. Their solution is known as
Traffic Advisors(TM) 4.0.
    The company, headed by search engine marketing expert and CEO Richard
Kahn, also provides web marketing consulting services that include click fraud
detection and prevention tools for businesses interested in all aspects of
search engine marketing (SEM) including the deployment of coordinated
marketing campaigns on search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
    New Ways to Fight Click Fraud
    "We're spending a lot of money on resources to ensure that the click fraud
that comes into our network is being eliminated before it hits our customers,"
said Kahn. He also pointed to his company's close relationship with Click
Forensics, (http://www.ClickForensics.com), an industry leader in scoring,
auditing, and improving traffic quality for the online advertising community.
    Kahn added, "Click Forensics is setting the industry standard, as
demonstrated by Yahoo's adoption of their proprietary technologies."
Steve O'Brien, VP of Marketing for Click Forensics, said, "eZanga is a
case study in effective traffic quality management."
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