I run a network of 40 proxy websites with Adsense. I took a look at some of my channels and this is what came up: site 1: 2 impressions, 2 clicks site 2: 4 impressions, 4 clicks site 3: 4 impressions, 4 clicks site 4: 8 impressions, 9 clicks! Of course, I have several dozen other channels that are getting ordinary click through rates. Am I being click bombed? What should I do? Should I take down Adsense on these sites?
Check the ip addresses of the clicks if you can, if they are unique, you might be ok otherwise take down the adsense code for a couple of days. I recommend using some adsense tracking program like adsensetracker.
Ofcourse yes... You are being clickbombed at the moment... Just see your stats... 8impression and 9clicks... This is for sure... just stop your adsense ads and mail to google about the matter... before they mail you... and check the ip in your webstats and ban the ip immediately Hope this helps...
Alot of the times I don't get proper impression stats, but I think you should install an ad click tracker, I have seen many people using them, I myself haven't used them, but I know thats what you need. If you find that click bombing is the case, take the code down for a while. Either replace it with another advertiser, or none at all.
keep ads very bottom .. so u get only impressions for some days and click bomber will not be able to find ur ads
Thanks for the advice guys. I looked over my stats and found a discrepancy. First off, I am very lucky that these sites get little traffic over the weekend so they only had on visitor. This visitor, according to Analytics, came from Omaha, Nebraska. When I checked my Apache log, I found my visitor, but it gave me an IP from Saudi Arabia! Which should I trust? Does Analytics make mistakes? And most importantly, what information should I include when I email Google?
Try to include all the details you can when you email google explaining what has happened and try to explain.... Yes you can trust on analytics
same thing has happened to me this weekend - yesterday one of my sites was showing 4 impressions and 8 clicks, today a different site is showing 14 impressions and 8 clicks. I have emailed google twice but have received no reply...hope you manage to get everything sorted. JB
Yeah, I am not too sure if it's a problem. What probably happened is someone came to your site, looked at it, clicked an ad. Then they came back later and perhaps clicked another. Shady, yes, but I don't think you've much to worry about just yet.