
How to Audit Your Google Ads for Bot Traffic (Step-by-Step Guide)
Audit your Google Ads account for bot traffic: check invalid clicks, conversion timing, placements, locations and Smart Bidding trends, then filter bot events server-side.
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Audit your Google Ads account for bot traffic: check invalid clicks, conversion timing, placements, locations and Smart Bidding trends, then filter bot events server-side.

Marketing efficiency ratio (MER) explained, with CAC, LTV/CAC and contribution margin: formulas, break-even MER and examples to measure ad spend efficiency.
Calculate the real ROI of server-side tracking for your business. See exactly how much revenue you're losing to broken pixels, and whether the investment in server-side tracking pays for itself.

Sourced 2026 bot traffic figures: 64% of HTML requests (Cloudflare), 53% of traffic (Thales Imperva) and 26.5% (DataDome), and why they differ.

How click fraud works, how to spot fake clicks in your own data, and the platform, third-party and server-side defenses that cut wasted spend and bad conversion data.

Your pixel-reported ROAS is wrong. Learn how to calculate True ROAS using server-side verified conversions, why ad platforms undercount by 20-40%, and how to make better ad spend decisions.

How bots waste Google Ads spend and corrupt conversion data, what Google credits back, and how to measure your own exposure with server-side filtering.