Today we launch a new feature on StatCounter – Paid Traffic. If you use paid advertising services such as Google Adwords or Bing Ads to promote your website, this new stat will give you an overview of the traffic you are receiving from your advertising spend.
Paid clicks (i.e. clicks to your site from pay-per-click advertising) are grouped together by IP address. The IP address which has generated the largest number of paid clicks to your site is placed at the top.
Let’s take a closer look at the available information using the above example.
- Icons: On the left hand side you will see icons representing the browser, operating system and country of the visitor. In this case, the paid clicks were from a US visitor using the Safari browser and iOS operating system.
- Paid Clicks and Page Views: In this case there are the same number (108) of paid clicks and page views from the IP Address. This means that each time the visitor clicked an advert for your site, they arrived at your site but then did not explore any further pages. This could be an indication of a poor landing page i.e. the initial page your visitor saw did not attract them to visit any further pages of your site.
- Visit Time: For visitors who have explored further than the initial landing page, this column will show the average visit time over all of their paid visits to your site.
Detailed View
Clicking on the plus icon: 
gives you a detailed breakdown of each click:
This shows that all 5 clicks came from Google, and all 5 were for the exact same search; ‘lock smith’. Note that 4 of the paid clicks resulted in only 1 page view each. This may indicate that the user visited your site but then decided to ‘bounce’ and immediately leave your site (rather then exploring more pages) and click on some other Google results instead.
From here, you can continue to drill down on the IP Address by clicking on the magnifier icon: 
where you can get a more detailed view on the exact timestamps of each hit as well as the other pages the visitor navigated to on your site.
Click Fraud
StatCounter is often used to identify instances of Click Fraud. We hope that the new Paid Traffic stat will make click fraud detection even easier for our members. For example, high numbers of paid clicks from a single IP address could indicate click fraud, especially if the visitor only ever visits the initial landing page of your site.
NOTE: Click Fraud occurs when individuals or automated computers click on a PPC ad without having any interest in the product/service advertised. Click Fraud is performed, instead, simply to generate a cost for the advertiser (without any chance of making a sale) and consume the advertiser’s budget.
Conclusion
We hope that this new stat gives our members a quick and easy way to review the return they are getting for their spend on Google Adwords and Bing Ads.
Please let us know your thoughts on this new feature. How are you using this stat? Can we improve it? What other ad networks would you like us to include? Any other questions or comments? Please post below.
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Awesome! I’ve suspected one of my competitors for click fraud. Now I’ll be able to see (or at least track and submit to Google) if this is indeed happening.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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It is best feature of StatCounter, I have also installed it in my blogspot. World Tourism Day Quotes provide best paid traffic for me.
It is one of the most important feature to drive traffic with particular goal with the help of Paid traffic feature of StatCounter.
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Excellent and accurate statistics, better than the stats for free Blogger Control Panel
Thank you
It is one of the most important feature to drive traffic with particular goal with the help of Paid traffic feature of StatCounter. Great job thank you so much StatCounter.
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Thanks. with this i can maximize my ads cost.
Statcounter has always been my choice over GA. Good to see some similar features showing up now.
I got to congratulate you on building this site, I have an idea just how much work you must have put in. I’ve just signed up and look forward to seeing how things work.
All the very best
This is a very useful feature. Thanks for thinking and bringing it up.
I’m very pleased to have come across statcounter
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This is a great addition to the toolbox, already put to good use.
Thank you for creating this new function.
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Awesome … Thank you statcounter…
that’s great information. thanks statcounter for launching advertising service.
Congratulations for a well thought idea. Definitely it will be a productive tool. But more can be said after use and tuned to the needs. Better tools are always welcomed.
Well done. Keep up the tempo.
I’ve been using Statcounter for a number of years and absolutely love the services you provide. As one of my brands that I share prepares to launch into Europe, it is extremely important that I monitor my paid traffic to my facebook Marketing Campaigns
Interesting addition to your current arsenal of tools. 10 out of 10 from me.
Excellent post and great tool guys.
It’s really good feature. But I guess it’s not working very well. I have compared clicked keywords with Google Adwords and not same keywords like in ADWORDS. I hope statcounter will fix this problem.
My paid clicks shows in StatCounter are significantly less than reported by Google. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Excellent and accurate statistics, better than the stats for free Blogger Control Panel
Thank you
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Hi Aido,
Great Job. Been using StatCounter for years and this is a very helpful new feature.
Thanks again.
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I am using Statcounter from many years … new feature is very good. thanks
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I am very much thankful to StatCounter team for introducing this paid traffic feature.
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Feature from statcounter very usefull for SEO analysis. Thanks to Admin for this post, great info.
great improvements, love it..
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but i hope statcounter display data about where the visitores clicks and wich is the ads and how many clicks for every ad
This is awesome update to statcounter, click fraud is really great feature, always we think our competitors clicks on our ads. Statcouter is getting better And better…
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Fantastic service. Will be a daily user as I just started
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Great idea. Cant wait to start using.
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