How to block competitor's IP address

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YoungB11

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Hey guys, after more than 1 year of battling with suspensions and misrepresentations I'm finally able to advertise on Google.

The issue I'm facing is that there is 1 competitor trying to take me down by constantly clicking on my ads. I've been able to know that lately around 40% of all the clicks I'm getting come from 1 specific browser inside my analytics dashboard but I'm unable to find the IP address so that I can exclude it inside my Google ads account...

Do you guys know some effective way to track my website visitor's IP addresses? I'm proactively looking for a solution but it seems like Google Analytics doesn't track IP addresses anymore.
 
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YoungB11 said:
Hey! I'm using Shopify, it seems that they don't give you access to server logs...
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In this case you must use another domain and hosting so you can redirect the users to Shopify from your ads, so you can track the clicks.
 
Maybe something like Hotjar would give you more insights than just the IP. Usually someone clicking your ads won't really browse through your website and it will be easy to see. There's also some other alternative but mouseflow I think? It has 1000 free recordings if that helps you.
 
YoungB11 said:
Hey guys, after more than 1 year of battling with suspensions and misrepresentations I'm finally able to advertise on Google.

The issue I'm facing is that there is 1 competitor trying to take me down by constantly clicking on my ads. I've been able to know that lately around 40% of all the clicks I'm getting come from 1 specific browser inside my analytics dashboard but I'm unable to find the IP address so that I can exclude it inside my Google ads account...

Do you guys know some effective way to track my website visitor's IP addresses? I'm proactively looking for a solution but it seems like Google Analytics doesn't track IP addresses anymore.
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Where are they clicking your ads on?

You can setup an ip logging url shortener for your ad. Your competitor clicks on your ad, their click event gets sent to the logging service which logs the IP addresses, and it then redirects to your website.

This way, you can see all the IP addresses that are clicking on your ads. Since 40% come from the same source, you might see a lot of same ips.

There can be false positives with this technique tho. If the competitor is smart enough to use proxies this will not work.
 
if you add cloaker code to your website (even inactive) it'll show you quite a lot of data including IPs for every visit. just cloak it does it for sure, I think other should offer this also, but I've not used any other ones
 
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