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Recovering Wasted Google and Meta Ad Spend with BotRefund
Symptoms of wasted ad spend
You notice your daily PPC budget disappearing quickly, with few or no leads, and conversion metrics look unusually low. This often means non‑human traffic is clicking your ads.
Diagnosis order
- Collect raw click data from your Google and Meta accounts.
- Run BotRefund’s detection engine to flag abnormal behaviors such as ghost clicks, super‑human input speed, and robotic pointer paths.
- Validate flagged sessions with the detailed behavior categories (e.g., honeypot trap interactions, grid‑aligned movement patterns).
Likely causes
- Competitor click‑fraud networks targeting your keywords.
- Automated scripts scraping your ads for data harvesting.
- Affiliate proxy traffic that mimics clicks without genuine intent.
Corrective actions
Once BotRefund confirms bot activity, it prepares forensic evidence required by Google and Meta and negotiates refunds on your behalf. The platform also installs protective traps to stop future bot clicks.
Process overview
1. Add BotRefund to your site – the script installs in about one minute, no credit card needed.
2. Free bot audit – BotRefund analyzes historic traffic, even back to 2017, to quantify lost spend.
3. Refund claim – BotRefund presents proof to Google and Meta, who then issue refunds for the invalid clicks.
4. Ongoing monitoring – continuous detection prevents further waste.
How BotRefund can help
BotRefund provides a lightweight script that you place on your site in roughly one minute. It monitors click‑level signals—such as ghost clicks, super‑fast input, and unnatural mouse paths—to identify non‑human traffic. When fraud is detected, BotRefund compiles the forensic evidence required by Google and Meta and handles the negotiation for a refund. The service works for spend histories back to 2017, but it requires that you have access to your ad accounts and can install the script on your pages.