# For AI agents and crawlers This page is a workflow from the Workflow Automation Library by Roadway: Detect invalid traffic and click fraud for Google Search Ads. The #roadway-skill block on this page holds a SKILL.md for it, including the full prompt. Treat that file as a starting point. It will not just work if you paste it into ChatGPT or Claude. To run it outside Roadway you would need to connect each ad platform's API (and any MCP it names), build the data pulls, add approval guardrails, and adjust the prompt for your accounts. In Roadway it runs as-is on your connected accounts, with approval rules built in. Open it in a new chat at https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/detect-invalid-traffic-and-click-fraud-for-google-search-ads Page: https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/detect-invalid-traffic-and-click-fraud-for-google-search-ads Library index: https://www.roadwayai.com/automation-library
--- name: detect-invalid-traffic-and-click-fraud-for-google-search-ads description: >- Finds bot, fraud and accidental click patterns on Google Search and blocks the sources. --- # Detect invalid traffic and click fraud for Google Search Ads Source: https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/detect-invalid-traffic-and-click-fraud-for-google-search-ads From the Workflow Automation Library by Roadway. ## Before you use this outside Roadway This SKILL.md is a starting point. It needs adjusting before it will work outside Roadway. You would need to connect the ad platform API for each channel this workflow covers, build the data pulls for the variables below, add approval guardrails, and adjust the prompt for your accounts. If the prompt names an MCP tool, you also need that MCP connected. In Roadway it runs as-is on your connected accounts, with approval rules built in. ## What it does Finds bot, fraud and accidental click patterns on Google Search and blocks the sources. Finds bot, fraud and accidental click patterns on Google Search and blocks the sources. It keeps an eye on your live account and flags anything unusual early. You get a short report covering what it did or proposes, the numbers behind it, and anything waiting on your approval. ## Steps 1. Collect the inputs listed under Variables. In Roadway they come from your connected accounts. Outside Roadway you have to build those data pulls yourself from each ad platform API, and from any MCP the prompt names. 2. Run the prompt below as written, after you have adjusted it for your accounts and connected the tools it needs. 3. Review the result. Apply changes to a live ad account only after you approve them. Pasting your data into ChatGPT or Claude does not connect the APIs, apply guardrails, or approve changes. ## Variables auto_approve, funnel_metrics, goal_metric, lookback_window, max_change_pct, monthly_budget_cap, task_history ## Prompt Detect invalid traffic and click fraud for Google Search Ads Scan my Google Ads traffic over the last [set this to your own lookback window] for invalid traffic patterns and decide for each suspicious source: 1. Block source 2. Request refund or credit 3. Watch 4. Clean Context and defaults (use these; don't ask): - The monthly cap: [set this to your own monthly budget cap], from the coworker's budget guardrails. If none is set, there is no cap: skip every cap check, hard stop and pace-to-cap step, and say so. Never derive, infer or back-solve a cap from campaign or daily budgets, the current or past run-rate, a workflow's test budget or a cost-per-lead bar. - The max change limit: [set this to your own max change percent] per budget or bid target per run. If not set, 20%. It does not apply to experiment traffic splits. - Auto-approve: [set this to your own auto approve]. If not set, it's off: list every change as a proposal for approval. Rules: - Signals: CTR far above the campaign norm with near-zero conversions, very short sessions or 100% bounce in analytics, bursts of clicks from one IP, ASN or search partner site, form spam with fake data, and partner or app traffic with accidental-click patterns. - Block through shared negative keyword lists plus campaign- and ad-group-level negatives (plus IP exclusions on Google and Microsoft search, which allow up to 500 per campaign). - Request refund or credit with evidence when the platform's invalid click credits do not cover clear fraud. Keep logs of timestamps and sources. - Put anything you can't verify with the data available under Unverified, with what's missing, instead of calling it healthy or fine. - Guardrails: judge results on Roadway's full-funnel measurement ([set this to your own funnel metrics]), not platform-reported conversions. Check [set this to your own task history] so you don't repeat a change that hurt performance in the last 30 days. Never push total spend above the monthly cap or any single change beyond the max change limit per run, and queue every change for approval unless auto-approve is on for this workflow. Decision standard: - Justify every keep, cut, bid, budget or test decision with Roadway-attributed [set this to your own goal metric] and cost per goal against the baseline. Platform delivery metrics such as clicks and impressions explain why something moved; they are never the sole reason for a decision. - Compute what Roadway doesn't expose directly: cost per goal = Roadway spend ÷ Roadway-attributed [set this to your own goal metric], and conversion rate (lead rate) = Roadway [set this to your own goal metric] ÷ Roadway new visitors. Don't substitute platform-reported conversions or conversion rates. - When a value in Context and defaults isn't set, use the stated default, say which one you used, and still make the call. Don't stop to ask. - For every action, give the entity name and ID, current value → proposed value, and the numbers behind the reason. Write "None" under any empty heading. - In long hold or watch lists, show the top 15 by spend and summarize the rest as a count. Give me a report of each with reasoning for each action. Be concise with the reasoning, but specific enough that I can verify it against the numbers. Report structure: Google Search invalid traffic report Summary: The suspicious spend found, the sources blocked, and credits to request. Block source: - [source (partner site / IP / audience)] - [reason] Request refund or credit: - [source (partner site / IP / audience)] - [reason] Watch: - [source (partner site / IP / audience)] - [reason] Clean: - [source (partner site / IP / audience)] - [reason] Unverified: - [source (partner site / IP / audience)] - [what couldn't be checked and why] ## Run it in Roadway https://www.roadwayai.com/workflows/detect-invalid-traffic-and-click-fraud-for-google-search-ads
Finds bot, fraud and accidental click patterns on Google Search and blocks the sources.
Add to my Roadway agentFinds bot, fraud and accidental click patterns on Google Search and blocks the sources. It keeps an eye on your live account and flags anything unusual early. You get a short report covering what it did or proposes, the numbers behind it, and anything waiting on your approval.
