Umm, no, big piece of information missing here. How many impressions was that? I swear you people have nothing better to do than fire off emails to google. Have any of you noticed the check number on your adsense paychecks? Its in the billions. Do you think they have time for evey paranoid dweeb with a website? I have seen ctr at 300%, yup it can easily happen with 2 visitors on your site, each one clicking on an ad then clicking back because it wasn't what they expected and choosing another ad. You people really gotta quit bugging Google for every paranoid moment. If i was Google I would kick people for sending me irritating paranoid emails.
If you see such abnormalities during the day, wait it out and see if the impressions don't catch up. They don't update in synch. If it is still way out-of-range at the end of the day, then drop google a note.
Totally agree to that, you posted exatly what I think, Henny... amazing how people love to waste Google's time When you have small amount of impressions those numbers aren't strange at all
It was 4 clicks on 2 impressions. Now I check it shows 4 clicks on 5 impressions. I hope the clicks were logged before impressions were counted. I hope I'm safe now and do not need to write G. Thanks for your kind inputs...
If you have link ads and no impressions it is very easy to get things like that as well... People are more able and prone to click multiple ads off a landing sheet for link ads.
It's not completely about this topic, but I think, many cases like this one(including me) happen because of Google's clumsy policies; 1)They cancel many accounts with no apparent reason at all(I witnessed so many of them), and create paranoid publishers, 2)At he same time, they continue verifying people's ad styles, like:"This one is ok. But the other is not. Insert a jumping rabbit gif at 45 degrees north between the ads, and you'll be fine, etc.". You know about the arguments on image insertion around Adsense. Can you understand clearly what is completely legal about this issue?I don't think so. I'm sorry, it's not easy to be such a big company like Google. If you have TOS, it should be crystal clear, and not let people get confused about what is suitable and what is not. TOS is some kind of law, and no law can be so subjective. If their terms are the "judgements" of an adsense moderator, then there's no need for TOS at all. Personally, I don't like their "It's my company and I do what I please" policies. If they go on like this, they'll only cause people to switch to another company, while important rivals are near. Nothing more.
I you only get 5 impression it is easy to trace if this clicks are fraud or not... check your server log. For sure since you got very low impression your log shouw you not much data. You can check there if how many IP logs on that specif time of the day. If you only see one IP well for sure that is fraud click.