This is the 3rd time that happened to my acocunt and I though someone was trying to jeopardize my acocunt after I received 47 clicks in just one hours and registered $26.35 earnings. I immediately emailed adsense support about this and they said they will investigate. After 3 days they respond and told me that there was no problem and the clicks were valid... It happened again several days ago and I received 54 clicks with $32 earnings on the first hour... I emailed google again and they respond, nothing is wrong... it happened again yesterday with $18 from 35 clicks. All incidents happened in that same time of the day and I wonder what is happening here... My average daily earning in this site is around $12 and I wonder why this keeps on happening... not with my other sites... Anyone can explain? I understand some system issues but this is not normal... system issues does not generate amount... just clicks... I think I am just lucky but I don't want my acocunt get compromised...
I'd investigate more as to where the traffic is coming from. If you put Statcounter on every page you can analyse each and every visit and build up a picture as to who is coming and from where. This will also identify repeat IP addresses (i.e. click bombing). Something doesnt seem right and I wouldnt leave it. Does your traffic go up in this hour? If not then I'd be worried.
Wow....that is odd. Can I ask is this a directory? Hey Daresp...nice first post.......I doubt you'll get a second post..
well.. you should be trying to find out from where the clicks r coming.You can use STATCOUNTER for real time website tracking.Its free if you got less than 9000 unique visitors to your site.You need to put that counter code in your HTML code of your site.Details about how to do that can be found when you signup with statcounter.You can see an example on my site avinashtech
Someone likes your site so much! jkg You must find out the IP that visits your site in that particular hour, Get a WHOIS and see whats goin on. always trace your traffic.
You need to check the ip's of that particular timeframe, or whole day. That's where you need to investigate, check and re-check. If there's one IP that keeps coming back, just apply a Denial at Cpanel. Good luck and be safe Now the morons: Can a mod take a look at this bumpers?
Is your traffic increasing when your getting more clicks or is it just the CTR that increase? Are the increases during peak or off-peak hours? IS the increase just after you have posted a new post on your blog? Try monitoring lots of different aspects. If AdSense says its ok then i wouldn't worry your making a killing from whatever it is!
Be sure to keep your emails from Google. If a different tech. decides to ban you, you will be able to show that you have been trying to work with them and they assured you that the traffic was good. I've only had one problem that got Googles attention, but they seemed alright as long as they think you are trying to work with them.
Im in same situation here , i see no problem , i also contacted adsense support team and i got the same answer. Like Pal said , maybe someone likes our websites verry much.
I checked my google analytics and especially addfreestat but I cannot see any IP having mutiple views and returning that time... I installed another tracker, let see when it happens again... Thanks for all your comments, except for these (you called morons.. LOL) I already did that 2 times not just for my honesty for for the sake of my account status... Thanks