{"id":9217,"date":"2020-04-06T11:21:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T08:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affise.com\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:07:44","slug":"prevent-fraud-in-affiliate-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affise.com\/blog\/prevent-fraud-in-affiliate-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Fraud in Affiliate Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9217\" class=\"elementor elementor-9217\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e807c3a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e807c3a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c254202\" data-id=\"c254202\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01f2176 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"01f2176\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to a new study from Juniper Research advertisers lost around $42 billion from the ad budget to fraudulent activities committed via online, mobile and in-app advertising in 2019. In comparison to the $35 billion lost to advertising fraud in 2018, this is a 20% increase. This growth tendency is notably formidable when we see that in 2017 the loss from ad fraud was only $3.9 billion<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8779\" src=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/4-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"343\" \/><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These losses account for a considerable percentage of the digital advertising budget. And with the statistics revealed by WARC showing that in comparison with almost $560 billion spent on digital advertising globally in 2018, the rise is expected by at least 13% by 2022. As a result of the budget growth, the industry is becoming even more attractive for fraudsters. Thus, affiliate marketers fear more sophisticated fraudulent methods to appear. And as a consequence affiliate marketers begin to draw massive attention to the affiliate fraud issue and look for the most trustworthy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/blog\/referral-software\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">referral marketing platforms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in combating fraud.<\/span><\/span><\/p><h2 data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 22pt;\">What can\u00a0affiliate managers\u00a0do to prevent fraud?<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">You can&#8217;t avoid fraud while doing business online. Hence, to succeed in this business, you need to take measures that would protect your business and clients against\u00a0fraudsters. First and foremost, it implies understanding the nature of fraud in\u00a0affiliate\u00a0marketing\u00a0and developing strategies to combat it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The approach is similar to the general rules of internet security that all users should follow unless they want to risk their data. The same applies to managers of\u00a0affiliate programs: to ensure a reliable platform with high-quality and fraudless traffic, you must regularly undertake precaution routine actions.<\/span><\/p><h2 data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\">There are some best practices that you should follow:<\/span><\/h2><h3 data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Careful validation of new affiliates<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s always easier to prevent any possible losses rather than to clean up afterward. Thus, be careful with adding new affiliates. It might be time-consuming to check each individual, but it&#8217;s worth to be prioritized. As at this point you can avoid any loss in the future. Check their websites, brand alignment with your program, relevant content profiles in social media and different portals. If you observe some discrepancy, it&#8217;s an early clue.<\/span><\/p><h3 data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Checking and analyzing the data<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Data can tell you a lot. Monitor the performance of ad campaigns for unusual changes; it can&#8217;t skyrocket out of nowhere. The following tips can help you to avoid\u00a0affiliate\u00a0fraud.<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Monitor information from referring sites and referring URLs<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Valid URLs indicates the credibility of affiliate sites. In the same way, referring URLs can give out the suspicious sites and direct affiliate managers to check the websites&#8217; validity.<\/span><\/p><ul><li data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Track IP addresses<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Multiple transactions received from the same IP address should arouse suspicions and immediate verification measures.<\/span><\/p><ul><li data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Pay attention to\u00a0sub-affiliate\u00a0networks<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A critical moment, and also the one which you have less control of, as networks might instantly add hundreds of affiliates without carefully checking their validity.<\/span><\/p><ul><li data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Keep an eye on metrics growth<\/strong><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Devote more time revising metrics that require human involvement, such as inquiries, conversions or purchases. If you observe sudden traffic surges and quick increases in affiliate-referred transactions. If there is some, then fraud is likely to have occurred, and you need to interfere.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/blog\/affiliate-tracking-software\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Affiliate tracking software<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be quite helpful while combating fraud. These tools are usually equipped with features designed to prevent affiliate fraud. <\/span><\/span><\/p><h3 data-marked=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9412\" src=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fraud1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"343\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Timely actions against fraud<\/span><\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Primarily, to avoid being trapped in a loophole, make sure that you are fully legally compliant. Constantly revisit and update the program terms and conditions. Next thing, don&#8217;t hesitate to act upon affiliate fraud in any form. Take any measure that you considered appropriate for every particular case: from sending violation warnings to affiliates to terminating them from the program.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These are the must-follow recommendations. However, even they cannot guarantee absolute protection from\u00a0affiliate\u00a0fraud. Occasionally you can recognize and block suspicious affiliates, but when it comes to fraud, it&#8217;s difficult to always be on the lookout. The chance that you would miss something is relatively high. By doing the actions described above, you only minimize fraud risks but do not eliminate it.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Fraudsters are very sophisticated in developing robust fraud strategies. Once one of their strategies is recognized and combated, they will come up with a new scheme to bypass your protection safety measures.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To ensure full protection, you had better choose professional help &#8211; fraud protection tool. Fraud-combating tools are developed to ease the process of analyzing your reports and activity logs enough time in advance to prevent any possible fraud. It will provide you with a real-time report on sudden traffic surges, rapid growth in specific affiliate referred sales or leads and any suspicious activities.<\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"font-size: 20pt;\"><strong>At tracking platforms, you can usually find features responsible for\u00a0fraud prevention, such as:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>-Click-level\u00a0fraud prevention\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; a tool that reduces fraudulent traffic by filtering VPN, non-earmarked traffic from proxies, bot traffic etc.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>-CR automation.<\/strong> In\u00a0fraud prevention\u00a0function, the CR automation feature serves as a regulator of the basic traffic quality index. Low CR percentage implies low-quality traffic, while a high CR percentage indicates the presence of fraud traffic. By following the CR percentage, you immediately decline the traffic that doesn\u2019t fall under the advertiser settings.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>-Rejection of IP duplicates.<\/strong> Conversions with duplicate IPs are a clear sign that you deal with low quality or fraudulent traffic. By choosing &#8220;Unique IP only&#8221; during an offer set-up phase, ensure that only conversions with unique IP will be approved.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>-Detailed statistics<\/strong>. The importance of tracking platform that provides detailed statistics is pretty clear. But besides its primary aim, it also helps to define fraudulent patterns in conversions and block them. For example, when analyzing a campaign performance you notice that a browser language is different from the country of conversion; or there are suspiciously many impressions and no conversions at all. With a number of data-slices, it is easy to spot these signals and block\u00a0fraudsters.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>-Click to conversion time report.<\/strong> For every conversion type, there is a specified time span during which a majority of clicks and installs occur. High volumes of traffic beyond this time frame usually account for\u00a0affiliate\u00a0fraud. \u0421T\u0421T report is used to detect and prevent it, particularly mobile ad fraud such as click injection and click\u00a0spamming. \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9413\" src=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fraud2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"343\" \/><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those were the examples based on the functionality of Affise <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/blog\/affiliate-marketing-software-comprehensive-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">affiliate marketing platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but fraud prevention features could vary at different platforms. Besides features available on the platforms, there are two more common options. You can develop your in-house tool to fight affiliate fraud or to resort to already made platforms. Both options come with a set of advantages and peculiarities.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is a widespread opinion that in-house solutions are always better as they are developed for specific business needs. Further users believe that they are safer when it comes to data privacy. However, at the same time, it&#8217;s also common knowledge that it is significantly more costly and its development takes much more time, while there are decent options already available at the market.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9414\" src=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fraud3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"343\" \/>Want to dive into a comprehensive comparison between in-house and SaaS\u00a0fraud prevention\u00a0solutions? Have a profound look into the pros and cons of both types in the eBook &#8220;Performance\u00a0Marketing\u00a0Fraud&#8221;.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In the eBook, you will find a thorough examination of both options according to the different criteria: maintenance, staffing, competencies, and intelligence, agility, integrations and customization, data privacy, the accuracy of\u00a0fraud prevention\u00a0and price. After reviewing it, you will be able to understand what suits you the most.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/affiliate-marketing-fraud\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9415 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/affise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fraud5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study from Juniper Research advertisers lost around $42 billion from the ad budget to fraudulent activities committed via online, mobile and in-app advertising in 2019. In comparison to the $35 billion lost to advertising fraud in 2018, this is a 20% increase. 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