Learn about click farms and how to stop them from draining your business' ad budget. For a relatively inexpensive price, a click farm will rapidly boost the number of a company's followers.

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Paying a few cents per hour to workers in a "click farm" or "device farm" in a third-world country to sit at a computer all day and do nothing but click banners makes an ad campaign appear successful.

And what can be done to prevent them? Click fraud occurs when someone creates a network of bots or sets up "farms" of human ...