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Usually not, unless you ask them to. Most agencies manage keywords, bids, and landing pages, and click quality falls outside that scope. There is also an uncomfortable incentive problem when an agency bills a percentage of ad spend, because fraudulent clicks increase the spend they are paid on. Ask your agency directly what they monitor and what they exclude.

The damage tracks cost per click, so personal injury, criminal defense, DUI, and mass tort absorb the most. Those keywords sit at the top of the paid search price range, which means a single wasted click costs more and a small volume of bad traffic drains a daily budget faster. Lower-cost areas such as estate planning still see fraud, but each click hurts less.

You are better positioned than most advertisers to evaluate that question, but the practical obstacle is proof. Click data shows a source and a pattern, not a person at a keyboard. Tying activity to a named individual usually requires discovery you cannot get without filing first. Most firms conclude the recoverable amount does not justify the effort and put the money into blocking the traffic instead.

There is no credible industry average, and most published figures in this category are recycled guesses. Calculate it from your own account instead: take your actual cost per click, estimate what share of clicks produced no meaningful engagement, and multiply. Then add the harder cost, which is the cases you never saw because your daily budget was gone before the afternoon.

Google issues automatic credits for clicks its systems flag as invalid, and those credits appear in your account without you filing anything. The catch is that Google does not disclose how it decides what counts as invalid. You cannot see which clicks were flagged or what share of bad traffic got through, so there is no way to audit the result or fill the gap.

Click fraud targets law firms because legal keywords are among the most expensive in all of paid search, so each wasted click costs more here than in almost any other category. The competitive field is also small and local, which means firms know exactly who their rivals are. Add daily budget caps that a handful of bad clicks can exhaust before noon, and legal becomes an unusually attractive target.