{"id":5292,"date":"2012-07-30T21:42:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2012-07-31T00:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T05:49:17","slug":"start-up-says-80-of-its-facebook-ad-clicks-came-from-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5292","title":{"rendered":"Start-up says 80% of its Facebook ad clicks came from bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/limitedpressing\/posts\/209534972507958\" target=\"_blank\">status<\/a> post as well as a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limitedrun.com\/post\/28341629174\/why-were-deleting-our-facebook-page\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> posted Monday, Limited Run said it built its own analytics program, which found that 80% of its ad clicks were coming from users with JavaScript turned off, which makes it difficult for analytics software to verify clicks. The company added that in its staff&#8217;s experience, only about 1% to 2% of clicks typically come with JavaScript turned off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-facebook-ads-80-percent-bots-20120730,0,1602559.story\">Start-up says 80% of its Facebook ad clicks came from bots &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More info on this here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-18819338\">BBC News &#8211; Who &#8216;likes&#8217; my Virtual Bagels?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Facebook status post as well as a blog posted Monday, Limited Run said it built its own analytics program, which found that 80% of its ad clicks were coming from users with JavaScript turned off, which makes it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5292\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137,677,187],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-advertising","tag-bots","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}