More Click-Fraud Fearmongering
The WSJ takes a small business perspective on click fraud this morning, doing the usual anecdotal empiricism thing of citing a few small-business owners who think they have been the victim of fraudulent clicks. Perhaps more worrisome for the PPC business is that the WSJ quotes approvingly someone who says that cost-per-action ads are a possible replacement.There continues to be more noise here than substance. But without a loud, public defense at some point from Yahoo, Google, et al., the real risk is that the PPC search vendors gradually lose a perceptual default decision, with it becoming "a given" that pay-per-click ads are risky business, perhaps too risky for many companies.
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