Hey guys, today as I was checking my adsense account, I noticed that in one of my sites, there was 1 visit and 5 clicks, giving me a 500% . Now, I checked where the visit came from and it was referred from one of the directories I had submitted my site, too. It makes me worried though, is this normal or has anything like this happened to you guys before? I have a few sites and today's ctr is 5.08% for all of them, but just that one is 500%. What do you guys think I should do? Ed
relax. nothing alarming. unless the same guy comes back tomorrow and click 5 times again. u will need to alarm google.
LOL if you just go to the page yourself the CTR will halve... It's no big issue - Google isn't stupid they know that it is completely plausible that this could happen, and I mean if you site has a bit of traffic coming to it, it will be averaged out over the next hour or two. If this happens consistently you might have more of an issue but a one off is hardly going to get you banned. High CTR isn't bad, Google don't care if you get 100% CTR everyday of the week as long as the clicks are valid and were made by people that were genuinely interested in the ad. If you are still worried the simplest thing to do is just email Google, notify them of it, and they will send you an email back in 48 hours saying that everything is fine.
Yes, I think you'll be ok. I sometimes get spikes like that on some of my sites, especially when they're starting up and haven't got too much traffic.
It does happen on a random basis for me. I see it once in a while but for every 1 impression with 5 clicks there are thousands of pages with normal click through rates. If you can figure out how and why the 500% occurs and can at least say you know how to get it to happen, write an e-book.