Just wanted to share with you a thought about ad links blocks. I usually check too often my AdSense stats (you know, I’m still in the leaning phase and the site has not that many traffic yet…) and I noticed something that might make sense for Google but might also be unfair for publishers. I can’t be 100% sure but here's what I think that happened to me more than once. Lets’ say I checked my stats twice within a very short period of time and I had an increase of, say, 5 or 6 clicks on a specific ad links block (controlled by a channel), but zero revenue for these clicks. My thoughts about what probably happened assuming it was a “normal†visitor (I mean, assuming nobody was just clicking the ads trying to ban me from AdSense) 1. Somebody was searching for info about something 2. He/she saw the ad link and clicked on it 3. In the search results window, he/she right clicked (opening new windows/tabs) on several ads in a very short period of time (a side note: I often do a search in Google and right click on the first 4 or 5 search results that look like they might have what I’m looking for, and them read them trying to find what I need) 4. Google considered the clicks “invalid†(could be because they were probably all made from the same computer in a very short period of time) even though the clicks were almost for sure legitimate clicks. Does this make sense?
Your thoughts are valid... and makes sense. I've often thought that myself as when I surf - thats how I do it... If I'm researching about a university course I would have 10-20 windows/tabs open just clicking on all links I thought was valid on each of the pages until I find my answer. I don't the exact answer to your question but I would think all of them would be valid clicks as you referred your visitor to tohse websites.
Hi, did I ask something inappropriate? Thanks. (wondering why just one member said something about my “thoughtâ€)