Something real strange happened yesterday. On one of my sites I got only 14 clicks and a total revenue of $0.00 I have a click tracker and I see only 3 clicks from the same IP, two on the same ad, in less than a minute. The only explanation I found is that this guy did 14 fast clicks and they are been flagged in some way. I am afraid this zeroed revenue is the anticipation of worst consequences. Today all seems to work normally, few clicks, the usual handful of cents... Ciao to everybody Carlox
That isnt very good. Sometimes it takes google time to count the clicks. Come back in an hour and see if you made money.
M_Henderson, this happened yesterday. Much more than an hour ago... geniosity, it's a tiny script I'm refining before to releasing to public domain. At present, it's very poor on the reporting side, almost no filtering of hits, and works well on poor publishers that have few clicks a day. But it have a special feature that cannot disclose here that I will uncover when it's ready.
Hmmm, is there a website for this? Maybe a mailing list where you could notify me when it's ready? I'm REALLY curious as to how to monitor who's clicking my links (as in where from)... Getting quite a high CTR now, and worried it's friends trying to be nice.
Hmm, these tracker scripts, cause are written in javascript, are not perfect because of many Dom (Document Object Model) interfaces of browsers
No, at present I have not website for this little piece of software, I will do some advertisement if I release it, may be as a free service. Yes, tracking is far to be perfect, but it gives a good estimate of what's going on.
I sent an email to google and asked them about this beucase i had the same proble. It what they say is self clicks and if you have that many they might ban you so look out.
Come on now that is not that bad I have had names with 100 clicks no revenuw and then they seem to catch up to atleast 10% ctr
Hmm...well maybe your apge didn't load completely than this guy want to see the ads so he click it to go to the main page.
how do they determine that it was a fraudulent click? IP address? that hardly seems reliable though, any autoclick script used with a random proxy generator could easliy make lots of money for someone if IP address is the only line of defense against this kind of fraud.
You can see who has been at your site, where they came from, etc using the cpanel. The tracker there will also tell you what links the visitors clicked on, etc. Bit overwhelming in information, and if you are getting thousands of visitors per day, it takes more time than it is worth to look at all the stats. But a good place to start is your cpanel. The Iowa Dawg
Evertime you login to adsense a cookie is dropped on to that computer. If you click on an add that is your own, revenue won't register but the click will. This is one of many ways google tries to fight click fraud.
so using that example...what if the user either clears there cookies (man programs will do this for you at reboot or at timed intervals) or you disable cookies?