Anchor Intelligence enables search engines to improve performance across their systems and provide an unprecedented level of transparency and control to their advertisers.
Using ClearMark and ClearScope™, Anchor’s proprietary solutions, search engines can investigate the quality of current and potential publishers’ sites to determine which sites are generating the best and worst quality traffic. Armed with this information, engines can evict low-grade partners and boost the quality of their entire system. Search engines can also distinguish between clicks that have a high probability of converting on an advertiser’s site and clicks that appear to be highly suspicious. Based on these insights, search engines can adjust pricing to enable advertisers to bid more for better quality traffic.


WHAT IS TRAFFIC QUALITY?

Traffic quality is a measure of the value of a click or impression along a continuous spectrum of good and bad.
Some clicks are “good” because they have a high likelihood of conversion and are thus valuable to the advertiser. For instance, if an individual purchases a lot of books online, any clicks he/she makes on book-related ads have real value to the advertiser because the individual has demonstrated his/her propensity to purchase books online. Similarly, some clicks are “bad” because they have a low likelihood of conversion and provide minimal value to the ROI-focused advertiser. If a user has a strong aversion to making purchases online, his/her clicks are unlikely to result in a purchase, and are therefore less valuable to the advertiser. Finally, some clicks are fraudulent because the clicker has no intention of converting, thus giving the advertiser no chance of reaping a return on their investment in that click. This can occur when an advertiser attempts to drain a competitor’s advertising budget, or when a publisher attempts to inflate the revenue his/her site earns through hosting ads.

Traffic Quality Monitoring: ClearMark provides search engines with the ability to assess each click as it happens. ClearMark processes each click using our real-time models. Previous behavior, current patterns, and reputation are all factored into the quality score determination. Search engines can integrate ClearMark’s click quality scores into their existing reporting and billing systems to provide a granular view of traffic quality. ClearScope™, Anchor’s reporting interface, provides search engines with a range of views into their traffic, from the network-level down to an individual click. ClearScope™ also provides reason codes to explain each click score, giving networks unprecedented access to transparent intelligence. With the vast array of insights available through Anchor, search engines can reconcile click counts and filter out poor quality traffic.

Publisher Site Reporting: Anchor Intelligence’s publisher reporting provides ad networks with detailed insight into the best and worst traffic sources. Anchor Intelligence leverages both traffic quality scores and traffic-independent data – such as the site’s content and reputation – to help search engines understand which publishers are driving valuable traffic to advertisers and which publishers are fraudsters. Using ClearScope™, search engines can review individual sites and evict poor quality and fraudulent publishers from their network in order to maintain a high standard for their ad placements. Networks can also identify and promote the best quality publishers by adjusting pricing and revenue share terms.



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