So I woke up this morning and checked my adsense. On one of my small sites, it's showing up as having 2 impressions and 3 clicks. how is this even possible? Is there something I should do to alert Google? I don't want to get canned for something I have nothing to do with.
Sure it's possible.. An Adsense banner has more than one ad on it right? A user may click on several adverts from the same banner - this is not a problem from Google's point of view.
Link units can cause such an anomaly as well. Visitor clicks the link and sees a list of related links and clicks one. Hits the back button and clicks a different link, repeat. That scenario is what can generate some nice earnings into your account. Link units can be some real money-makers if used correctly.
Well my revenue has actually started to pick up. I'm now making at least over $.01 a day lol. Hope this continues.
I've had similar situations where I had 8 impressions and 7 clicks and thought, damn I hope that's not click fraud. I'm not going to post the actual numbers, but there have been days where I was also afraid of getting my account yanked for something I had no control over, but most likely unless you're doing more than $300 or $400 a day you probably won't raise any flags. Honestly i'm not sure when you need to start worrying about fraud outside of your control getting your account ganked. I've heard of it happening, but I don't know what type of money they were making or that they were actually innocent. Rambling now.