Affidavits Of Genuine Clicks

[miner2049er]

I’m a PHP / MySQL web developer, and planning a site where businesses pay me when site visitors click on their entry in a directory (which takes the site visitor to a detailed business description etc.)

 

(Q1) What I want to know are there any methods available to me to count genuine clicks, and to reject automated/multiple clicks, say from unscrupulous competitors. This is in order to present affidavits to merchants, which give an accurate total of the amount of people who clicked on them.

 

Is there anything on the server side that can authenticate these clicks, in ADDITION to my script just storing a time/date, IP address, and incrementing a database counter etc. when a link is clicked? i.e. my database entries could be forged, and I want to know if any third-parties can be involved in logging clicks.

 

(Q2) Also, are there any other other additional (legal) documentation I should present to my customers, stating such things as: "This document represents a true and accurate total of clicks made, for the period Jan 01, 2005 12:00AM PST - Jan 31, 2005 11:59PM PST" which is then signed and dated?

 

(Q3) Where might I find Google's position/statement for the "authenticity of clicks" made on their AdWords?

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

Miner2049er.

[miner2049er]

I found the answer to (Q3) at:

 

https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=35

 

though they obviously won't disclose details about how their proprietary click analysis technology works.

 

 

 

I’m a PHP / MySQL web developer, and planning a site where businesses pay me when site visitors click on their entry in a directory (which takes the site visitor to a detailed business description etc.)

 

(Q1) What I want to know are there any methods available to me to count genuine clicks, and to reject automated/multiple clicks, say from unscrupulous competitors. This is in order to present affidavits to merchants, which give an accurate total of the amount of people who clicked on them.

 

Is there anything on the server side that can authenticate these clicks, in ADDITION to my script just storing a time/date, IP address, and incrementing a database counter etc. when a link is clicked? i.e. my database entries could be forged, and I want to know if any third-parties can be involved in logging clicks.

 

(Q2) Also, are there any other other additional (legal) documentation I should present to my customers, stating such things as: "This document represents a true and accurate total of clicks made, for the period Jan 01, 2005 12:00AM PST - Jan 31, 2005 11:59PM PST" which is then signed and dated?

 

(Q3) Where might I find Google's position/statement for the "authenticity of clicks" made on their AdWords?

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

Miner2049er.

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