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CHINA and INTERNET EXPLORER?

ronyronyedited
I noticed from my blogger stats that the majority of the visits for my ad campaign were from China and more than half of the visits were made using Internet Explorer.

This is quite fishy.

FACT: Firefox is still the most-used browser while Chrome is on 2nd. A small percentage of users use IE.

I know that I chose Worldwide traffic but this is the first time I've seen China as the leading country on my stats.

I have a feeling that I'm not getting any quality traffic.
Most visits were most likely made using PROXIES and BOTS.

Kindly clarify this...
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  • AdFoc.usStaffedited
    Internet Explorer is still the most widely used browser.

    Check our stats:

    i.imgur.com/VKXk8.png

    We do not allow proxies and bot traffic and monitor our traffic very closely. Just because there is traffic from China doesn't mean it is not quality traffic.
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  • ronyrony
    IE is the widely used browser... Well, that's according to your stats.

    Believe me, I created a lot of worldwide ad campaigns from various sites (PTCs, Google ads, even Facebook ads), and it's always Firefox that comes up with the highest percentage.

    Like I said, this is the first time I've seen China, and also IE, on top of my stats.

    Is it possible that your publishers are using bots to promote adfocus links?
    'Cause as far as I know, windows-based bot would usually rely on IE as its browser.
    And yeah, there are lot of proxies from China too.

    If they're really promoting links according to your terms, who would want to promote an English site to a Chinese audience anyway, right?

    Sorry, but the stats I received was just confusing.

    Perhaps you guys should investigate this matter for the sake of your advertisers...

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  • AdFoc.usStaffedited
    I am an experienced performance marketer myself. Your advertising history does not give you instantaneous credibility of calling our traffic bad quality. Like I said, we do not allow bot or proxy traffic and we employ methods to detect this.

    You have no evidence to suggest otherwise so do not accuse us of things you do not know for sure. Topic closed.
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