Glossary · Fraud
Click flooding— what it means in affiliate marketing
Firing huge volumes of clicks at tracking links in the hope of being credited for conversions that would have happened anyway.
Also called click spamming. It does not create users; it steals attribution from whoever actually delivered them, which is why it shows up as an impossibly short click-to-install time.
Related terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Click fraud | Generating clicks artificially — by bots, farms or scripts — to drain a budget or to earn click-based payouts. |
| Click injection | Android fraud where a malicious app detects an install in progress and fires a click just before it finishes, claiming the attribution. |
Entry updated 29 July 2026. All 276 terms in one page.
