I am having some trouble understanding impressions and clicks. I have been using Adsense for about 3 days and when I get clicks through out the day the earnings do not seem to rise with it. On the same note, it doesn not rise with impressions. It feels like sometimes what I start the day with, is that I end the day with. (Start the day with meaning what happens between 12 Midnight and 9 when I wake up.) Can anyone give me some insight? Also on a side note, I placed my Adsense banners on 5 or 6 websites al on different channells, is this good practice? - Trekden -
I don't believe so. Maybe I clicked One of the 3 times it shows. I was at 1.54 this morning. WIth 1 click. I left came back, clicked once, and it was still 1.54. Then another click that wasn't mine showed up but the number did not change. Man im really racking my brain over this. lol
Go read the adsense TOS first... And don't EVER click you own ads...You're one step away from being banned from adsense...
crap....I hope i'm safe....I read that, but I actually saw something I was interested in so I clicked it..lol. Also how does IP stuff work with AdSense? I am in an office with 400 computers prob coming from the same IP. They all might see that Ad and click it.
That's what they all say. Email Google and apologize, tell them it was an accident that happened while you were doing maintenance/updating the site. Three days in and you're already cheating. Sheesh. And about the office: they're not going to "all see the ad" unless you tell them to click on your ads. You didn't tell them the name of your site and to "help you out" by clicking on your ads, did you? If you did, then you're SOL.
Just tell Google. Last week I left my laptop open on my home page. I try to NEVER enable ads when I am browsing my own site, but it was late at night and I pulled it up without disabling my ads. I left it on. My cat jumped on the keyboard, hit the mouse pad which clicked an ad. I woke up in the morning to a site I'd never visited, so I clicked the back button back to my home page. Oh oh. I looked at the page and there was an for that site. I immediately e-mailed Google about it. They e-mailed me back in 2 days and said they'd check it out and said it was an invalid click and not to do it again. So far, no bannage, but I made sure to tell them right away. I'd hate to lose AdSense over my cat, but I _did_ break TOS so I did the right thing and told them. As for your income, look at your eCPM (average income per 1000 visitors). This is a MUCH better idea of how your site is doing. If your eCPM stays the same (as mine does), then drive more traffic to your site and your income will go up. Some people see eCPM going down as traffic goes up -- this means that you're getting junk traffic. Some people try to flood forums with their links, and people go by don't stay. Forget that. Work on quality traffic. My traffic is up nearly 700% in 5 months and my eCPM is exactly where it was 5 months ago -- it NEVER waves. This means my traffic is quality traffic, interested in my sites and my advertisers.
Thank you so much for your help everyone! About my office, I put it on my office website. lol so we all see it. This was not a good idea?
All advertisers pay you for impressions no matter what you think the rarity is a website that has visiters that actually click ads but expect the average to be somewhere under .1 percent in reality. Yes google detects the X forward refer to determine clickfraud.
Remove it pronto! You're just asking for banishment, especially if you told your co-workers about it and they get "curious". What the other guy said was true: they don't just use IP to determine clickfraud, but they do use it. In fact, the same IP logging into your Adsense account and clicking on your ads is the primary way people get banned.
Wait til your co-workers find out you're making revenue from that ad. I don't think they'll be too happy. On the other hand, If you work for IBM or Microsoft you'll make thousands in revenue.
IP may have been used but I believe Google is getting really good at tracking user behaviour. So it doesn't really matter what IP you are on. Anyway, just don't click on your own ads and there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Yah don't click your own ads google will automatically click its own ads on your site after 3 months after they trust you wont.