{"id":25324,"date":"2025-08-19T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=25324"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:36:28","slug":"click-fraud","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/glossary\/click-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Click Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is Click Fraud?<\/h2>\n<p>Click fraud is when someone clicks on online ads on purpose to cheat the advertiser. It\u2019s done to make the advertiser pay more money without getting real customers. This can be done by people or by automated programs called bots.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a competitor might click on your ads just to waste your budget. It hurts businesses because they spend money on fake clicks instead of reaching real or interested people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Click Fraud? Click fraud is when someone clicks on online ads on purpose to cheat the advertiser. It\u2019s done to make the advertiser pay more money without getting real customers. This can be done by people or by automated programs called bots. For example, a competitor might click on your ads just to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25324","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/25324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/25324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7searchppc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}