Link Farming Is a Type of Online Advertising Fraud Where

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Multiple Choice

Link farming is a type of online advertising fraud where fraudsters attempt to:

• A) create a series of bogus Web sites, all linking back to a page, in the hope of increasing that page's results in organic search.
• B) pack a Web site with unrelated keywords in the hope of luring users who wouldn't normally visit a Web site.
• C) search keywords linked to rival ads in the hope of generating impressions without clicks to lower the performance rank of these ads.
• D) frame a rival by generating bogus clicks or impressions that appear to be associated with the rival, in the hope that this rival will be banned from an ad network.
• E) generate bogus impressions that can be linked back to a rival's ad to exhaust the rival's CPM ad budget.

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Definitions:

Finished Goods

Products that have completed the manufacturing process but have not yet been sold to customers.

Process Costing System

A method of assigning production costs to units of output by averaging the total costs over all units produced, suitable for manufacturing processes producing homogeneous products.

Weighted Average Method

An inventory costing method that calculates the cost of goods sold based on the average cost of all items, weighted by the quantity.

Process Costing System

A costing method used for homogenous products, systematically allocating production costs to units of output.