ClickCease subscription

ClickCease Click Fraud Protection connects a WordPress site to ClickCease for traffic monitoring and protection. The service monitors incoming paid, organic, and direct traffic to help identify invalid activity that may affect advertising campaigns or marketing funnels.

Traffic monitoring and bot detection

Paid traffic monitoring covers Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. ClickCease's AI software supports click fraud protection and real-time on-website bot detection and prevention, including activity from bots, competitors, and malicious users. The product information says the extension uses synchronous code that does not slow page or site load speeds.

Lead Shield form validation

Lead Shield is available to sites connected to a ClickCease 2.0 account that includes the feature. Choose which Gravity Forms, WPForms, and Contact Form 7 forms to validate in the ClickCease dashboard. Verdicts are added to Gravity Forms and WPForms entries and appear in the dashboard for all three form plugins.

External services and data

The plugin uses services from CHEQ, the company behind ClickCease. When Bot Zapping is active, each visitor page load sends the visitor's IP address, page URL, browser headers, and CHEQ cookie to decide whether to block the visit. The CHEQ tag and ClickCease tracking scripts execute in the visitor's browser to detect invalid traffic and click fraud; ClickCease tracking can be turned off in plugin options.

For account checks and diagnostics, ClickCease keys are verified, and the plugin's status, version, site domain, and logs, including visitor IP addresses, are sent to support the installation. On websites connected to an account with Lead Shield, submissions from selected forms send email addresses, phone numbers, form identifiers, the ClickCease visit identifier, and form names to CHEQ. Only selected forms are validated; other submissions are discarded. The plugin settings page also uses Mixpanel for usage analytics linked to the ClickCease client ID.

Subscription and setup

An active ClickCease subscription is required. ClickCease describes a seven-day free trial for running a traffic audit and getting started with blocking bad traffic.

1. Install and activate the plugin on the WordPress site.
2. Enter the ClickCease API keys in the plugin settings.
3. Click Save to enable protection.