Dan - If you have access to the ClickTracks Click Fraud report, generate a Click Fraud Forensics report and look at the referring pages (if any) for the short sessions. If the referring page is non-existent or has no content, then you have a likely case of fraud.

-Michael

Dear Mr. Zarrella,

My name is Geoff Gieron and I am the Director of Advertiser Management & Services for AdOn Network. I came across this posting and felt necessary to address your concerns.

We oversee approximately 2000 advertisers currently that use our array of product offerings for driving traffic (Search, Pop-Under and Text). Our goal is to connect our advertisers with consumers, to help create a positive Return On Investment. We take quality very seriously and always encourage our advertisers to provide us any feedback necessary to help us continually improve. At any point in time should someone raise concerns over specific traffic, we simply ask for whatever information can be provided (ip logs, referer logs, etc…) so we may research internally to help identify any areas that our fraud prevention tools and filters may not identify. Once a review has been completed and we identify that there is indeed an issue we are always more than happy to extend a credit for the money spent on the traffic, as we would prefer that any advertiser working with us acheives success in meeting their marketing goals and objectives.

Realizing that click fraud is an industry issue, we have gone one step further in giving our advertisers the control to deselect themselves from any traffic source in our distribution network. Coupled with our Reporting/ROI Tools - we find that giving this control to our advertisers helps them better identify and turn off any traffic source that isn’t delivering the desired quality necessary for conversion. We acknowledge that providing this to our advertisers as a resource allows us to combat this battle together.

I would certainly like to speak with you further on the issue seen by your client so we can review the information and assist in any way we can. You can reach me through the phone number located on the AdOn Network web site (www.adonnetwork.com).

I look forward to hearing from you and correcting this impression of our network.

Thank you

I tested they’re system after receiving info from the SanFran AdTech this year and after receiving 351 clicks I reviewed the stats. No conversion and a 98.5% bounce rate. I’m glad I only tested a hundred bucks. The only ad network I’ve seen with lower performance is RedZee.com. I’m not going to accuse AdOn of click-fraud as I did analyze the log data and nothing jumped out as immediate red flags but at the end of the day it all comes down to performance. When my site average is over two minutes per visitor and a traffic source has 98.5% of the traffic immediately bounce something just doesn’t add up.

sgadvertising:
did you see the bolded part of my original post?
“of the 7200 clicks that came from AdOn properties, 99% immediately left the site with an average time on site of 1 second or less” i wasn’t talking about views of a popup, i was talking about actual clicks to the site, recorded in the server’s logs (hence the mention of clicktracks) I don’t particularly care in this case what the payment model is, although if there was no chance of clickfraud, it seems odd that the guys from adon network would be so quick to talk about how they take clickfraud seriously, now doesn’t it?

Ad on networks is using the virtumonde trojan and rootkit to generate traffice that you are paying for.
their affiliate mygeek.com hosts cpvfeeds.com. they go to great to obstufacte their whois info but ips dont lie.