{"id":1310,"date":"2021-03-08T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/?post_type=kb-article&#038;p=1310"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:18:38","slug":"what-is-a-threshold-rule","status":"publish","type":"knowledge-base","link":"https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/knowledge-base\/popular-questions\/what-is-a-threshold-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a threshold rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A threshold rule is an instruction given to the system on what to do once a certain limit has been reached.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In PPC Shield\u2019s platform, the user can change the predetermined threshold rules and instruct our system to block IPs originating a certain amount of clicks within a determined period of time. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This feature allows you, as the user, to customize the protection on your Google Ads accounts even more by adding your knowledge and expertise on your own industry and market to our layers of protection against click fraud<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Example: you can determine that more than 4 clicks in a period of 30 days on the same Google Ad are suspicious. So you set the Threshold Rule to be 4\/30. If the threshold is met, the IP will be blocked and Google won\u2019t show that Ad to that IP anymore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Threshold Rules can be found in your PPC Shield platform under \u201cBlocking Settings\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/app\/uploads\/Threshold-Rule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/app\/uploads\/Threshold-Rule.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/app\/uploads\/Threshold-Rule-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/app\/uploads\/Threshold-Rule-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ppcshield.io\/app\/uploads\/Threshold-Rule-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A threshold rule is an instruction given to the system on what to do once a certain limit has been reached.\u00a0 In PPC Shield\u2019s platform, the user can change the predetermined threshold rules and instruct our system to block IPs originating a certain amount of clicks within a determined period of time. 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