Can bots click banner ads?

[ownthisdomainnow]

This may be a silly question. If it is, please be gentle. Can bots click on banner advertisements?

My website has a program that tracks banner clicks. It shows that I have had 1500 impressions for a certain banner, but only 26 clicks. This leads me to think that they were actual human users, but I wanted to get a professional opinion, or fact.

Thanks for your indulgence.

 

[lothos]

bots can follow any link, including banner ads.

 

[ownthisdomainnow]

Short and to the point. Thank you.

 

[procanic]

lothos is correct "Framed" navigation land anywhere on page

 

[john orton]

Sometimes Google boots skip flash animations etc, but they click on banner adds.

 

[earnincome]

Yes, Bots can follow the banner ads, stop the bots from accessing banners. It will help you.

 

[Abhinandangarg]

bots can follow any link, including banner ads.

thanx lothos, i think you are right because every banner adds had a link to money website.

but could you please tell me that can bot click or follow click adds by google and others??????

 

[dharan]

Yes, bots can click any where, as today the programming is so advanced

 

[renek]

yes they can, they can even simulate 'human' browsing.

 

[Robin]

Bot actually runs your javascript code and follow that link. So yes they can follow ads too.
You can try to add nofollow to that link but I don't know how to do that.