I don't get credit for over 95 % of my clicks, what's going on?

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by thesickearth, Apr 6, 2011.

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    I noticed that since late February at least I don't get credited for clicks from my small blog. I got about 25 clicks since then, and only 1 got credited. Nearly all clicks were from first time visitors ( at least 20 of those) that came in through google. My CTR for March is 0.05%, and it is 0% for April, though I had at least 6 clicks. What is going on?
     
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  2. xubair

    xubair Active Member

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    Google must have observed something suspicious on your site. You should contact them to sort things out. Maybe some invalid click activity was seen by these Adsense people there!
     
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  3. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    I was click-bombed for 3 hours sometime in February, but none of those clicks showed up on adsense. Not one. I emailed google anyway, never got an answer. Anyway, for example I have a regular that visited my site at least 60 times, clicked once on his 35th visit. Not a picture of a pathological clicker if u ask me. No credit anyway. I don't understand this , if they don't like something why not disable or ban the whole account? What's up with this non-paying ?
     
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    chamiljayaweera@yahoo.com Peon

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    I think Google flagged your account for unusual activity. Just remove your ads and check again that your site is according to the Adsense TOS. If everything is OK try to contact them again explaining clearly. Good luck!
     
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    ahyardrain Guest

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    Also you might want to check your analytics to see where your traffic is coming from, you could be getting a lot of traffic coming from countries that don't pay on clicks
     
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    Google is alert on your website. It is better to try and block ip addresses of click bombers otherwise google won't bother disabling your adsense account.
     
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  7. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    i was click-bombed only once --as a matter of fact, never had a visitor from that state before or after the bombing. Also, none of the click-bomber's click went
    through-- adsense showed unusual amount of impressions, bot no clicks whatsoever.
    How often something like this happens?
     
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    netdriver788 Well-Known Member

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    Try with different website of yours and see the same thing happens.
     
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  9. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    i have 2 more blogs that arent updated and don't have any traffic to speak of, one got 2 clicks out of 3, another got 1 out of 2 that i can see on statcounter
     
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    anhbloginc Well-Known Member

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    Depending on the traffic from which country.
     
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    You're definitely getting with low rate.
     
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  12. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    I got 2 clicks from USA that were credited for not that long ago, so I kind of relaxed. Today , I found out that I had 2 clicks that came from the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland that wasn't credited for!!! What the hell! Does adsense think I have UN as a clicking lapdog or something?
     
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    Are you buying traffic from crappy sites?
     
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  14. thesickearth

    thesickearth Active Member

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    as of the last 7 weeks or so, 80-90% of my traffic comes from google, mostly through image search.2 months ago or so i did have about 300 hits from a traffic exchange site, that's all
     
    thesickearth, Apr 15, 2011 IP
  15. bryanduke

    bryanduke Greenhorn

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    Yeah I do agree with Xubair. There must be invalid with your site or others.
     
    bryanduke, Apr 15, 2011 IP