Well my girlfriend's site generated 5 clicks for not even a penny. The very next day my buddies site generated 6 clicks for not even a penny. I was just wondering how google justifies these clicks as invalid? I mean if someone comes to the site and clicks on the ads 5 times would the first click still count and the 4 are invalid or do they take all 5 clicks? I'm not sure if that is the case or not but I can't think or any other way you could have 6 invalid clicks without the first click counting? Also if that is the case 1 person clicked the ads 5 times or so shouldn't google have a system setup to prevent only those extra clicks from counting and still credit you for the first click? You can have 3 ad blocks on your site which can show up to 12 ads. What if your user for some reason finds all 12 ads interesting and clicks on them legitly? Will google punish you and say that all 12 clicks were invalid?
LOL, I was bent about one click and $0.00! Do they not count people that use proxys or people from some other countries?
I'm not sure but still even if you're using a proxy it still can be a valid click. Not everyone uses proxies for negative reasons. I'm not sure about foreign traffic though I never thought about that. I will have a look at their trackers and see where their traffic is coming from. I think if they deem a click invalid they shouldn't even post it in you account. I think it's discouraging to see 6 clicks for no money. I've never really had anything quite like their numbers but I have had 2 clicks for no money before on a site. Also their sites are rather new <2 months old could that have anything to do with it maybe?
I don't think the age has anything to do with it, the sites in my signature line are all new sites. Some of them earn as much as a dollar a day and at times they go days without any income. I have tried to ask questions on the Google forum but they don't find it important to answer my questions. Good luck!
Well the sites are about 1½ months and 2 months old. They are showing relevant ads and the psa are set to show a solid color so no psa's should be shown. All the traffic is from search engines I believe.
i think this is happening all over i got .01 for 3 clicks maybe adsense is not that good as it use to be.
Google Counts clicks from proxies... but you'll earn 0.00 $ and for all those who think thats unfair... "we believe that 99.9% people have no reason to use proxies...." [ i read it somewhere ] and they are right!
I know it's invalid clicks but I want to know how google knows they are invalid even after the first click? It's kind of hard to explain what exactly I'm trying to figure out.
I'll tell them to do that, I was just curious. I see a lot of other threads that are like x amount of clicks for 0.00$ maybe google is getting more strict.