Invalid click activity

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by a5495688, Nov 5, 2015.

  1. #1
    I run several AdSense sites as well as a corp website, which is essentially a business card with no content, no ads, no external links.

    1) I'm losing AdSense credit due to "Invalid click activity".
    2) "rankings-analytics dot com" shows up in the following:
    a) AdSense as one of my URLs, which it is not...It resolves to "semalt dot com"
    b) Awstats as one of my top referrers to both my AdSense sites as well my corp site under "Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)" along with mostly unaffiliated sites, many of which appear to be Russian, adult and/or parked sites, none of which appear to actually have links to my sites.


    What's going on here...Are these issues related, and how do I fix this?

    Your helpful feedback, would be greatly appreciated,
    Thanks!

     
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  2. kjh-08

    kjh-08 Well-Known Member

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    #2
    These are common issues and I've personally had to deal with them, minus the AdSense stuff.
    It will probably take you a couple hours to get straightened out. The spammy referral traffic can be blocked from your Analytics dashboard, this will keep these sites from skewing your results.
    The traffic from useless countries (Russia/Ukraine/China) can also be blocked using blocks of IP ranges for those countries.

    Best thing to do would be to Google these 2 issues.
    How to block country IP's
    How to block referral spam data in Analytics
     
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  3. a5495688

    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    Thanks! The AdSense stuff is kind of important to me because I AM losing monetization. With that said, I must correct myself...The "rankings-analytics dot com" shows up in my AdSense account under "Performance Reports" > "Report Type" > "Sites" NOT as one of my "URL Channels" nor "Owned Sites"...How is this even possible without access to my AdSense account and how do I fix this?

    Just curious, why are you not be willing to share your knowledge and information OR let others yet rather send me away from this forum to search Google?? And FWIW, I don't use Google Analytics.
     
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    pmf123 Notable Member

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    i have my adsense set to only show ads on my specific domains, so that is also another thing to do

    kinda hard to block whole countries coz they have so many IP ranges, unless someone has a good database we could use
     
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  5. a5495688

    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    Thanks! To show ads across an entire domain and subdomains, do you add "example.com" or do you have to add every specific URL individually that you want to show ads on?
     
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    pmf123 Notable Member

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    Just each domain
     
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  7. a5495688

    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    Just so I'm clear on this...We're talking about adding each domain to my list of "Authorized sites", correct?
     
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    pmf123 Notable Member

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    yes
     
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    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    Great, thanks!
    Which of my issues, should this resolve?
     
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    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    :eek: My apologies, if it looks like I answered my own question, there, which of course, I did not! I was trying to present it as a multiple choice @ pmf123. ;) With that being said, if pmf123 or anyone else could please let me know, which of my issues, this should resolve, it would be very helpful...Thank you!
     
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  11. Samim Noorzai TGC

    Samim Noorzai TGC Member

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    Someone must have clicked your ads in order to ban you. "Find him" :D
    OR
    You can easily report invalid clicks to google via "Reporting a Violation" form. Here is the link:
    https://support.google.com/adsense/troubleshooter/1190500?hl=en
    That's it! ;)
     
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    a5495688 Greenhorn

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    I have not been banned...yet. ;) That said, if someone is clicking on my ads or it's something else...How do I find the source of the invalid click activity?

    Actually, Google knows already because they reported the invalid clicks to me in my performance reports. What's the difference between the "Reporting a Violation" form and the "Invalid Clicks Contact Form", which states "Use this form to let our team know about invalid activity in your account...." and when should each form be used?
     
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