I'm leaning towards Google not paying out %100. How are we the publishers to know if a click was counted or not by Google? We don't even know the split were getting paid yet Adsense is still strong. Someday someone will come out with a better business model and Google will be finished. I would bet big money that Google still charges the advertiser for those clicks,..
You focus only an idea. Google can't cheat! Who control Google?You have any proof to say that? Answer: BIG NO! (your only proof is Google, lol) But i have hundreds proof of that. Clicks from France, germany, USA... they didn't accept them. And they visit my site long time ( they visit nearly 20 pages), they are not robots, they are legal! clicks but adsense don't care. Anyway it will continue like that till find nicer and fairer system. thanks everyone to write here. Ps: statcounter sometimes shows wrong information, but %95-97 is real results.
Yes , for the past 3 weeks i am getting only 50% of my previous income. Why? because google 'thinks' that half of my clicks are invalide. So i get like 1400 clicks daily and i earn 11-13 bucks. i love google(huh) , but as someone above said , there is no alternative to adsense.
Well Adsense has different set of rules. For example it will not recognize re directed traffic. For example my twitter traffic is more than 100 per day according to AW stats. while Google analytics only counts up to 10.
what is your statcounter ? I visited statcounter[dot]com and cannot see this service. May you show me the details ? I'm finding a statcounter which can show adsense stat. Thanks
I tried to register an account and now I can see it. In Demo I could not see it. Anyway, it's great services I believe Thanks
Thank you for information. i think google count all click because when have click on ads google will get money from adword.
I've noticed it too. it is really pissing me off. I know for sure that my clicks are not frauds, yet Google doesn't show them.
On 1 of my sites, statcounter covers only about 40% of the traffic, yet I got only 1 click counted out of 18 clicks by 16 visitors. I wonder what about the other 60% of my traffic? I will run statcounter for a few more days then switch to adbrite to see how they are counting clicks. I know they pay shit, but they do count all the clicks at least from my experience
How do you know that Statcounter is accurate ? It might be possible that Statcounter is making a mistake not Google ? Best way to find who is at mistake, Install at least 5-6 such tracking tools and verify data from all of those... we will say Google Tracking is false if all other reporting tools say the same thing
google has its own way to calculate the clicks can some one tell me how we can check from where click accur and in which ad
Although none of us know the mind of Google, I think there is a genuine reason why not, all your clicks are being counted, Google has ways of knowing if clicks are fraudulent or not. Google has to have ways of protecting it's advertisers, especially as Adwords is very competitive, I always avoid clicking on Google ads, (I know how expensive they can be!) when I am searching, especially when there is a sponsored ad at the top and then the same website below in a natural search.