I never clicked on my ads and neither asked anyone to do it... But look at this ADsense is just giving me 0.01$ for 3 clicks..
Thats what happens to a lot of us its invalid clicks, clicks from countries that do not pay. More than likely it's clicks from other countries that do not pay.
I am also agree with you. adsens pay very low to us specially to Asians. adsense paid me $ 16.94 for 538 clicks. what about yahoo or msn?
what do you mean by More than likely it's clicks from other countries that do not pay .. Google takes cash from them in the form of adwords ads and then pays a part of that to us. how can those be invalid clicks??
It is not simple as -You put adsense ad, someone clicks and you expect every time at least $1. It is complex business model where all parties had to have reasonable ROI otherwise system can not exist. Behind every ad there is real person who wants to make profit. Let assume,for example,that your site is about real estate in India and most of your visitors are from India. For some reason( google crawler, because of content, make assumption that site is about world wide real estate) you get ad advertising real estate in US.What is good for that advertiser if someone from India clicks on real estate ad targeting US?That is what makes difference in value of the click.
My experience tells me that....Clicks coming from countries like USA , UK...Would pay you really good amount .........But clicks coming from Asian countries really sucks. When some one from USA click on my site ...I usually get 0.50- 0.80 cents even some time more then $1.00........But from other countries give as little as 0.02 cents. This is the result of my 4 month test on my sites.
Agreed. When it comes to adsense, publishers are expected to follow the TOS both in letter and spirit; and adsense alternatives are not that much attractive in terms of monetary returns...
Invalid clicks are say you have a link unit they click and without going further they go back to your page. Countries that you will never see earnings and still get clicks are mostly like asian countries like japan,china, viet nam you will see clicks from them at times but know earnings.
You are missing some information. Google takes cash from USA business USA Business wants to sell only to USA Consumers. Asian African Australian visitor comes to site, clicks on USA Business Ad. These clicks are then useless to the USA Business. Google determines these clicks are useless and pays publisher $0.01 A business in Asia would not want to pay for USA clicks if they do not sell in USA would they??? This is how business works........ So the only person you should be mad at is yourself......
Thank you just wish others would read through threads as you have. We can complain..... but Google does not listen very well
How is this cheating? Google doesn't value your site. They don't have to publish how they determine value, and they don't. And you don't have to participate. Everyone pretty much knows how it works. So it's not cheating at all. Figure out how to "fix" your sites so they value them or quit and promote something else.
The more clicks you get from Asia visitors the lower you will earn per click, that is just the way it is. I have run into so many problems with click fraud running my AdWords in Asia I am willing to pay almost nothing for those clicks. It is not zero, but very very close to zero. You can be sure other AdWords users running ads in certain parts of Asia pay as little as I do. So this is why you see so many 1 and 2 cent clicks. Horrible economy + increased click fraud through the roof + Adwords campaigns now willing to pay less and less = Decreasing AdSense earnings.