I was click Bombed! Thousands of clicks, same ip

I woke to find this morning that I had 41 pages of blocked ips. Yesterday I installed Adlogger and showed some tried to click bomb my ads 1000's of time. They are all coming from around a city called Qatar.

I cant imagine what was happening before I installed Adlogger.


*This is not an ad for Adlogger.

I'm just kind of shocked that I was attacked, I have a a small uncompeditive website.

 

Well Qatar is in the Middle East. do you normally get visitors from that region?

 

No I don't, Im guessing its some young hacker, trying to show his muscle

 

People who click on ads are not hackers.

Maybe you have a personal friend around the internet who knows you from a forum or something and he's trying to teach you a lesson.

 

I dont think so, my friends are friends, and none of them live in Qatar. They are not people trying to get me banned from adsense.

 

Click bombing has nothing to do with hacking, at all.
You probably got an enemy somewhere on the internet

 

Email google, tell them you noticed you were click bombed and basically hope and pray!

 

I blocked ips that clicked my ads more then 3 times (recently put it down to two), so hopefully all is well with the Adsense people.

 

Those clicks, do you see them in your adsense stats? I doubt hard, thats only what adlogger is telling you. Unfortunately they have a bug that i notice, reported and discussed on their forums.

Apparently when you "hover" your mouse over the adsense ads, for adlogger that is counted a click, or attempt to click (thats why we get the "estimated" click counts report from adlogger).

 

That seems like a legit reason why this could happen, however mine are all coming from the middle east, and I dont normally get traffic from there.

 

This may sound stupid, but google should be able to catch this in their sleep - if one guy can write an adlogger / click fraud protection script, surely a billion dollar, PHd ridden conglomerate should be able to spot this stuff.

 

And what your adsense stats say about this? How many imps and clicks today and how many on other days?

 

Yea, they probably knew about it before.

Can I ask if your adsense account showed any abnormal activity?

 

LOL, you think that they would. Google is looking out for number one. It's self and not the publishers.

 

if you were click bombed it would show some signs in your adsense account

 

My Adsense accounts shows good results, not totally abnormally good results though. Since Adlogger blocked a lot of clicks.

 

Lol young hacker trying to show his muscle. That gave me a good laugh in my otherwise dull afternoon.

 

Heh.. no worry about adlogger here.. My clicks are so small, it's sad. Now.. to go off and figure out where I'm going wrong!

 

You know this would explain alot. I look at my adlogger then my adsense account and its always off bye a few. now I understand.

 

Next 5 days, you will be banned just like me. There's nothing you could do. You may send as many as support emails, but you'll be banned anyway. In appeal form, you may mention reference to your previous support emails, but it will be no use either. They will ban you no matter what.

Adsense banning algorithm sucks!