In my adsense account I have all my earnings channelled by URL. In the last 48 hours, my earnings have inflated dramatically and the clicks nor earnings are showing from any of my existing URL channels. I do not have any additional websites either, so I'm at a loss as to where this income is being generated from. Is there any way I can find out the source of this extra traffic and clicks? WebDev
I use to get that sometimes with old code on old pages. Not the inflating, but rather the unknown source/channel thing. Maybe the 404 or 500 (Internal Server Error) pages? Also having access to web logs (ie. Apache 'access' and 'error') helps track down issues as well. You can always check with Google, but good luck with that. They rarely respond if at all.
I think suddenly receiving 100,000+ daily ad requests from an unknown source is something to worry about if you have any kind of professional thought about you. It's being monitored now anyway and the accounts being readjusted, so not to worry. WebDev
There's always a sudden influx once in a while for web sites, why worry? Unless your site normally gets 100 UVs and all of a sudden you get 100,000+ then you need to worry. Is that the case? Professional thought? Do you have any? Perhaps try asking Google about this influx if it worries you so much.
It was huge traffic increase from an unknown source, my data is channelled. We jumped from around 20,000 daily to 120,000...all my channelling data remained steady. It's quite clearly a malicious attack. Furthermore, if you actually read my reply you would know I've already contacted Google and the issue is being looked into, the issue has been solved. The advice of "Google will just sort it themselves" isn't wise, Google make it very clear that any suspicious/unexplained changes on your account should be reported, hence why they created the submission form. The purpose of this thread wasn't to seek advice on what to do about it, I just wanted to know if there was any way to establish the source. Thanks for your thoughts anyway. WebDev
The thread was never about contacting Google, I wanted to see if through my reports I could find the source. So essentially you were wasting my time posting a reply about something totally unrelated to the purpose of this thread. Please move along, you're giving me a headache! Highlights your ignorance. I'd stated in the OP that ALL my earnings are channelled and none of them showed an increase. Meaning the 100,000 additional ad requests were coming from a website that I definitely do not own. Influxes like that don't happen, not legitimate ones anyway. If you had taken the time to actually read the thread and digest the information I was giving you, you'd have saved us both about 10 minutes! WebDev
If you were professional enough you would have contacted Google about this influx and where the sources were. I never said this thread was about contacting them. But if that happened to me the first thing I would do would be contacting Google instead of opening a thread here. Did you get any solutions here in the end? Since there is no way to find out the unknown source, it leads to you contacting Google about it. So how that you contacted them, its not totally unrelated now is it? Perhaps you also need to think I was trying to say before you reply to shave perhaps 5 minutes of our time?
Google won't be able to comment on the unknown sources, even though they have access to them, common knowledge. Hence opening this thread, I just wanted to enquire about whether I could identify the source from my end as I know they wouldn't be able to tell me. You've backtracked now though, saying the first thing you'd do is email them. At least you've said one thing that's made a little logical sense, finally - as what you said initially; "There's always a sudden influx once in a while for web sites, why worry? Unless your site normally gets 100 UVs and all of a sudden you get 100,000+ then you need to worry. Is that the case?" would suggest to just sit back and have blind faith that things will work out in the end. Thanks for your contribution kiddo, keep up the good work.
I thought you said its being monitored now, didn't you mean you contacted Google and they are looking into it? Now you are saying they can't tell you anything? I'm confused old man. If Google won't tell you, do you actually think we have the power/tools to find out? If its so easy to find that out, Google "won't be able to comment on the unknown sources, even though they have access to them"
You're location states Canada but I'm starting to seriously doubt your integrity on that one, you seem to have a very loose grasp on the English language. Google are monitoring the situation themselves, that doesn't mean they are going to provide me with any information. These are two very different things, are Google are notorious for never divulging any information regarding Adsense ~ what are you failing to understand here? Perhaps if you spent some time to educate yourself and earn a little you'd be familiar with the basic Adsense policies and procedures? DigitalPoint should have an IQ test that you have to pass before registration, you are clearly a little special. WebDev
LMAO, now you are picking on my location and my grammar. English isn't my first language and I dare you to prove that I'm not living in Canada. You are from the UK so I can only assume English is your mother tongue. Right you said "I've already contacted Google and the issue is being looked into, the issue has been solved". So what? Did they just closed the ticket without telling you anything? IQ test? Tell that to all the stupid ass noobs here asking / posting stupid threads. I'm pretty sure I'm a bit better than them still. Good job insulting fellow member by the way, all from a normal discussion. As far as I know I've never insulted you, like I usually do to stupid ass noobs.
Okay let me try and break this down for you, for the third and final time. - Contacted Google. - Received a response informing me that they were monitoring the activity, with their usual "we won't be able to provide you with information of our findings" line, too. That's it. They're monitoring, which is good enough for me. I just wish I could have found out exactly where the activity was coming from. WebDev
Do you have activated the authorized sites that can show G ads of your account? This way not only clicks on ads shown on other sites then those indicated won't have any impact over your GA account and you will also be able to see which sites are showing your ads.
Someone might took your code and placed to somewhere, best idea is to allow only your sites domain where your ads can be published...