To put it simply, 1. I haven't breached the TOS. Incentivised any clicks e.t.c. 2. I haven't been in adsense and the ads haven't been on my site for much longer than 12 hours at most. 3. My sites been up for 4 days. It's got good content, butnot massive amounts and very few visitors. 4. Todays earnings are $30.91 Basicly I'm just worried that I'll wake up tommorrow with an email from google banning me or something
The only reason I see for you to get banned is revealing your CTR and ECPM in this thread. You may want to edit your post to remove these. If everything is legit, I wouldn't worry. If you have some reason to suspect that the clicks are invalid, gather the evidence and send it to Google.
Editted them out, sorry about that There isn't any chance you could explain to me what the ECPM means could you? The google explanation didn't really help me.
eCPM is the amount of money you earn for every 1,000 impressions. Its simply a calculation: eCPM = (# of impressions) / (Earnings) * 1000
Without the CTR and ECPM it's hard to point out where your earnings come from , either you have a high payout per click on your keywords (high ECPM), or your CTR is very high, I would only worry when your CTR is very, very high... enjoy it, most make 1 dollar a day with a new site .
It is "more worried", not "litte worried", if someone were banned. But your earnings grow fast incredibly. Me too, look worried about this case.
If everythings ok Google will see everythings ok just make sure your friends arent clicking your ads too help you out.
If you have any questions about your ad structure or placement, give google a quick email and ask if the ads are in compliance. No harm there.
You should use some adsense tracker such as adfreestats to track the clicks to try to pin point where the problem maybe. If it is a 1-day pop, it maybe OK.
Yes. Use addfreestats. Also, please check from your AWstats or stats counter from where your visitors actually come from. If you only get 10 visitors but 20 clicks, it does sound a bit worrying. But if your visitors come from search engine (after 4 days, that's amazing!), then I think it is perfectly valid.
wow...how do you guys managed a dollar a day? i'd be happy to get 20 cents a day. my average, after 3 weeks, is 4 cents a day. sad, i know.