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adsense ads about google services-- google gets a free ride?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by thesickearth, Feb 24, 2011.

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    My statcounter shows 7 or 8 clicks from 6 people today-- all ads but one were about Chrome, and other google propaganda. 0 clicks on my adsense. All 6 were first-time visitors, from google search and from one small forum. I noticed similar adsense behavious before. My question is simple. WTF?
     
    thesickearth, Feb 24, 2011 IP
  2. Eniak

    Eniak Peon

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    Sounds like coincidence imo. Not surprising when Google is such a huge, trustworthy name these days.
     
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  3. Project Mobius

    Project Mobius Peon

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    yea google gets a lot of free rides, that's why they are so profitable. I think you should quit using it.
     
    Project Mobius, Feb 25, 2011 IP
  4. Mitasha Joshi

    Mitasha Joshi Guest

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    Thats a coincidence. It will not happen everytime. Google mostly displays ads on your niche but when your niche dont have much competative ads they will show such a ads.
     
    Mitasha Joshi, Feb 25, 2011 IP
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    yes man google gets a lot of free rides. Because net is a jungle and google is tiger no any one ask google what thy do
     
    nanncy222, Feb 26, 2011 IP
  6. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    today-- first time visitor from Netherlands, came in from google.nl
    5 pageviews, 1 click . No credit.
    yesterday-- a regular visitor from New Mexico-- 51 visits in the last 2 weeks, first click. No credit.
     
    thesickearth, Mar 3, 2011 IP
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    drewtoby Well-Known Member

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    I am sure it is a yes, google does not want to spend $$$$$$ on their ads
     
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  8. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    another 1st time visitor, from image search google india, made 2 clicks, none registered. thatts 4 clicks in a row already
     
    thesickearth, Mar 8, 2011 IP
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    photoworldblog Active Member

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    how do u get this data ?
    i mean how u come to know he is first time visitor & came from which site ?
     
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    that must be a coincidence you cannot blame google for such things, a penny wont make any difference to their wealth :)
     
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  11. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    statcounter.com
    btw it registers only about 75-80 % of my visitors (even adsense registers about 90) so i can only imagine about the othe 20 %
     
    thesickearth, Mar 10, 2011 IP
  12. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    btw there is an update-- indian guy from the last time came in again yesterday and clicked, no credit

    an hour ago--- another first time visitor from holland, came from search on google.com, spent 7 mins and 46 seconds on the site, clicked--- well i guess it was just another click-spammer--- who am i to judge google.


    PS does anyone know how to block out google's own advertisements on my adsense? It seems to be impossible to me.
     
    thesickearth, Mar 10, 2011 IP
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    thesickearth Active Member

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    so my CTR for March was 0.05%. I got 1 click registered and I got a whole penny for it. About 12 to 15 clicks that I saw on statcounter weren't registered.
    Yesterday, 2 clicks from a first time visitor that came from Google.lu ( second visit total from that small country), none were registered of course. Google analytics didnt see that visitor also.
     
    thesickearth, Apr 3, 2011 IP
  14. JamesColin

    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    Your CTR is way way too low. How can you do that?
     
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    thesickearth Active Member

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    well normally my CTR is (was) 0.7-1%. If I got credited for those clicks, my CTR for March would be 0.8% or so. But I wasn't so it's 0.05%. With 1 penny credited for 1 click.
     
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    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    Your CTR is way too low. It is the CTR of an average forum with average ad placement.
    Your CPC is also way too low, it looks like the CPC of free flash games or free desktop wallpapers. So perhaps you have a forum about free flash games and/or free desktop wallpapers?
     
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  17. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    No I have a blog about rare commodity statistics. My average ( yet so rare ) clicks were quite decent. Nearly 90% of my traffic comes from google and its pawns.
     
    thesickearth, Apr 3, 2011 IP
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    ashokdhan Well-Known Member

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    satscounter not show you who are going to click your ads.
     
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    pmf123 Notable Member

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    yeah id like to know how you know what the ads are for and how you know they clicked on them?
     
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  20. peepin2me

    peepin2me Well-Known Member

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    How do you know the visitors clicked on ads promoting chrome and other google products?
     
    peepin2me, Apr 23, 2015 IP