Just saw this then minus $24 for DHL delivery I've been receiving monthly checks from Adsense and never had this "adjustment" till now.
I've never seen this before and I just checked now as well. Maybe it's something new for AS to discount invalid clicks from a third party rather than just banning your account. Hopefully they are improving.
Oh man..... I have not seen something like that before. I am new to the Adsense market.... my goodness, this is really demoralising.
That`s interesting! Let`s all hope that this is their new way of doing business with us. Instead of banning.
If Adsense are adjusting for invalid clicks on publisher accounts rather than bannin people outright, then it is a progressive step for Adsense. They have realised that it is not always within the publishers ability to control such things as invalid clicks (as 3rd parties can easily account for a lot of invalid clicks on a publishers account). A step further would be to also inform the publisher if the invalid clicks were coming from the same ip - so that the publisher could look at showing alternative adverts to any IPs that Google advised them of that were making invalid clicks. This would ensure publishers could still maximise their adsense earnings with legitimate clicks and the people responsible for invalid clicks would not affect a publishers account.
Ganceann, I agree. This is definatly a step in the right direction. I would rather loose 50% of my earnings for genuine invalid clicks than to be banned forever. DD
I agree , it's far better to lose a few dollars than to lose your entire account. However, it does seem that there's a very high 'invalid click' amount don't you think myspace? A nd what's this about $24 for DHL to deliver.....don't you have a bank account and where are you located... the South pole,?@! what about standard postal delivery?
The AdSense Team told me that they will adjust my earnings if fraud clicks are detected - when I told them I suspect fraud clicks.
I already wrote them an email protesting this adjustment I live in the Philippines. EFT isn't available yet as of the moment. Postal delivery takes forever.