Which AdOperator SubIDs send bot traffic?

ValidVisit judges every AdOperator visit Valid or Invalid and pins it to the SubID that sent it, worst first.

Not ready? Estimate your invalid clicks →

validvisit · adoperator cut-list

Exclude the bad SubID in AdOperator

The buyer pastes/uploads the bad SubIDs as a blacklist preset (or adds them in the campaign’s SubID optimization section) so those publisher feeds stop receiving the campaign; whitelist mode is the inverse.

Where: Campaign creation flow has a dedicated "SubID optimization" step; reusable lists are managed under Campaigns > SubID Presets tab (and a parallel IP Lists tab), and can also be edited inside an active campaign

Controls in AdOperator’s campaign settings

✓ IP lists✓ OS✓ OS version✓ Browser✓ Language✓ Connection

AdOperator macros mapped to report columns

2026-10-02

macros checked against AdOperator’s own docs

no-hop

one script, nothing added to the click path

Valid / Invalid

a verdict on every visit

01 / SIGNAL

How bot traffic slips in through AdOperator SubIDs.

AdOperator is a push channel — exactly where invalid traffic concentrates. See which AdOperator publishers, placements and sub-sources send real clicks versus bots, attributed via AdOperator’s own tracking tokens and judged Valid or Invalid per source.

02 / VERDICTS

What AdOperator lets you judge by.

Publisher / site / zone

Invalid share broken down by:

Publisher Sub ID {subid}

Per-click id: AdOperator passes a unique click id, and ValidVisit stores it with each visit, so a verdict traces back to the click in AdOperator’s own reports.

Compare bot & invalid-traffic breakdown across every ad network →

See your own AdOperator sub-sources judged this way.

03 / ATTRIBUTION

How ValidVisit attributes AdOperator traffic

Each AdOperator macro maps to a normalized parameter, so every judged visit is pinned to the right campaign, creative and publisher.

validvisit · tracking url

Tracking URL for AdOperator, ready for ValidVisit

https://yoursite.com/landing?utm_source=adoperator&utm_medium=push&vv_click_id={conversion}&vv_campaign_id={campaign}&vv_publisher_id={subid}

All AdOperator tracking tokens →

Token	AdOperator macro	Maps to	Identifies
Click ID	`{conversion}`	click_id	click
Campaign ID	`{campaign}`	campaign_id	campaign
Publisher Sub ID	`{subid}`	publisher_id	publisher

Click ID

AdOperator macro: {conversion}
Maps to: click_id
Identifies: click

Campaign ID

AdOperator macro: {campaign}
Maps to: campaign_id
Identifies: campaign

Publisher Sub ID

AdOperator macro: {subid}
Maps to: publisher_id
Identifies: publisher

Macros checked against AdOperator’s own documentation on 2026-10-02. AdOperator docs

The verdict works the same way on every network. ValidVisit never changes your AdOperator account: you make the exclusion there yourself. How the verdict works →

FAQ

AdOperator traffic quality, answered.

How does ValidVisit detect invalid AdOperator traffic?

Every AdOperator visit is checked against 100+ independent data points spanning the network it came from, the device behind it and the page it loaded. One thing a real visitor cannot produce makes it Invalid; otherwise it is Valid, with its evidence either way.

Can I see which AdOperator publishers send bots?

Yes. Using AdOperator's own tracking tokens, ValidVisit attributes each judged visit to the publisher, placement and sub-source, so invalid traffic is pinned to the exact sub-source — which you can then exclude manually in AdOperator.

Does it require a funnel hop on my AdOperator links?

No. Detection runs from one lightweight script — no extra hop, no link rewriting, no change to your AdOperator destination URLs.