Uh Oh

Hi

I am brand new to this and totally confused.


I created my first blog 2 weeks ago and signed up with adsense. I have a search box and a tiny ad on my site.

1. Yesterday, I started out the day making about 40 cents, then all of a suddent, it disappeared to zero cents AND removed $15 from previous totals!!! (and no, that $$ didnt go into my check which is being held until I get my PIN)...

2. I made zero cents yesterday, which has never happened. I make about $5 a day so far.

3. I know I had clicked on my own ad's a few times, as well as doing searches in my search box, to see how they looked, etc.

I emailed Google but I guess they take several days to email??

4. Also, I put 2 google search boxes on my page, one at the very top, one at the bottom, to see which one i liked better........Is that bad?? I took one of them off, being paranoid....

Any idea's??

Thank you for this forum!

 

"3. I know I had clicked on my own ad's a few times, as well as doing searches in my search box, to see how they looked, etc."

Uh yeah thats def. not allowed which is probably why they took back the money. A mistaken one click is ok but when you do it more then once you're in for it

 

ok.. that's enough.. that is enough dude, for google to take back your money.. publishers should follow their guidelines or nothing u can do.. sorry to say..

 

lol that explains your "loss"

 

I only clicked on my own ad's a couple of times........

Oh boy!

 

you shouldn't have, at least you weren't banned.

p.s. welcome to the paranoia club

 

Should have read the ToS properly

 

You should consider yourself lucky you did not get banned or something.

 

ermm dude, have you tried looking at the "last 7 days stats" and "all time stats".

the normal page of google adsense only shows you what you earned today.

try clicking on the Last 7 days stats, your money is still there.

 

yea. u shud consider yourself lucky though. however, that said. i believe every newbie has clicked their ads a few times . i was so excited when i got accepted, i kept clicking on every college computer i could get my hands on. that was till i got a final warning email 3 days later lol. counted ma self lucky seeing all the complaints on the forum of people talking about being banned straight away. ehehe. lesson learnt and have been a good boy ever since making fine dough by doing good SEO, ad placement and rich updated content to drive traffic to ma site

 

Yes, I looked at the 7 day stats as well as other categories, and that $$ is gone.

I emailed Google to tell them I clicked on my own ad's and about the money issue.

Today, the "adsense for search" category is grayed out and says "no data available"

I feel horrible!