Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now?
by tomjuggler on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:43PM
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Shockingly, I did not consider malicious intent as a possible reason. I will look into it. Never did trust the partner networks though, it's not that anyway, just used plain old search network
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now?
by reconnecting on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:49PM
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I tried to visit your website to get a better idea, but found `Connection timed out Error code 522` by Cloudflare.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now?
by tomjuggler on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:22AM
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It's fine now, somehow got to #1 on Hacker News and 1000's of visitors did that. Learned something new about Cloudflare Cache Settings, it won't happen again
The first step you might take is to check that you are not advertising with AdWords partner networks, as they might be the reason for the clicks on your ads.
Second, you can check your server logs and verify clicks from Google Ads, especially the geolocation of those clicks. If they are not from your region and the visitors perform no action after viewing the first page, this is most probably click fraud.
I use our own open-source security platform (I'm a co-founder) for this purpose (1), as it's server-side and works even if bots aren't running JS. However, your website analytics might also be useful if they can collect events without JS.
1. https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno