Hello all, I'll jump straight to the point. During my time as an Adsense publisher, I've had many people click on many ads on a single impression. Some would click on 2, some on 3, some on 12 even. Obviously, the latter is not normal... but is it suspicious? Even so, are we supposed to report it? So far, I have been reporting anything over than 5 clicks originating from the same person. I currently have about 20 sites on Adsense, and I am happy to say that I am doing pretty good. However, I plan to put Adsense ads on 20 additional sites and checking my stats every minute so that I can track any "suspicious" activity will become much harder over time - it is already hard enough. Are we supposed to do that? If we don't, are we to go on living in the fear that we could receive one of those notorious "your account poses a risk to our advertisers" emails on any given day? I have had people click on many ads for a few days in a row. I can only assume that when I add more sites to my portfolio or when my traffic increases, such activities will increase as well. I can't believe that I could get to a point when I would have to carefully check all the stats of my sites on a daily basis in order to find and report instances where people click on more than a couple of ads. Then again, if there is no other way, I guess I would have to. I have already reported such activities to Google more than 15 times. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
If you have reported already and not received any response from google.. then just leave it.. no need to fear or worry about it.. if you find more suspicious click, at that time again send a mail. You have done your job correctly.. so then we don't need to worry about it... You can track the data for a week and can calculate correct occurence of those more clicks on same ads
checking every min ? Gosh that is way too much work and stressful for u dude. just do it like once a week.
once a week ?! Google bans people like crazy these days, by the time you check you may be banned already !!! I would say at least 5 times a day! especially when you earn a good revenue
They clearly say that it's understandable. Google doesn't really care if a IP clicks an ad many times. You will get a "your account poses a risk to our advertisers" email when you are **** NOT GIVING ANY CONVERSIONS **** to the advertisers, that is what matters most. Of course you need to follow the ToS as well.
How do you actually know that it is the same person who clicked your ads more then once? Unless you literally update your stats on several second/minute depending on the traffic and at the same time keep an eye at your Adsense earning, which I am not so sure are getting updated in such "real" time... Otherwise, sorry but I cannot advise you as I've never noticed invalid clicks across my sites...I actually have quite low CTR and I'm gonna keep it such in order to have my affiliate sales. However, guess that they have it in mind after your 15 reports so maybe there's no need to report anymore...just a though.
How do you know that? Where do they say it???? No one can guarantee a click or some percentage of them will convert into sales...that's ridiculous... Further I do not think advertisers get back to google to let 'em know if they made a sale from a particular click or such from a particular site/s, unless it is an absolutely noobish landing page with nothing but the product itself
If you know of a way to contact Adsense - please let me know. I would like to have them answer my question directly As far as I know, the only way to get in touch with Adsense, is through reporting "suspicious activity", which I have done repeatedly, but with no luck. In every report, I urge them to tell me whether I should keep reporting or not, but I have yet to receive any sort of reply - not even a confirmation that they received my report. I am not doing anything against the TOS, but every time I read about one of those people who supposedly got banned for no apparent reason, I start to wonder... Sure, the majority of them are might be lying, but what if the few honest ones were in my position and they just decided to "leave it to them"? Here is what I normally do. If I notice a higher-than-normal CTR in one of my sites, I check my Analytics. Since my Analytics account is linked to my Adsense, I can see the origin and trends of those clicks. Normally, I would check to see to see the cities of the visitors that clicked on an ad. If I notice that traffic from a small city has had 1 or 2 impressions, and made a bunch of clicks, I basically assume that it was only 1 person. It could potentially be 2 people or more, but I don't know how to check that. ---- Thanks for all of your replies. Through them, I basically see my thoughts displayed in a thread. I have considered to stop reporting those incidents, and I have also considered to keep reporting them.... I am leaning towards the latter, but I don't know whether it would be feasible once I increase my portfolio. P.S. Almost 90% of my traffic and 99% of my clicks come from search engines.
This is my personal theory. If you think about it, it's not that ridiculous. Google wants to earn money like everyone else, they do so through Adwords. If the advertisers don't get any sales because the market is overwhelming of Made-For-Adsense sites where people only click the ads by mistake, it's going to look bad for Google. Adsense is simply just an exchange of value. If you can't give anything in return, then why should you get paid? "No one can guarantee a click or some percentage of them will convert into sales...that's ridiculous..." - If you can't guarantee Google you will give their advertiser's sales, why should they guarantee your account? I'm not sure whether or not advanced tracking exists for conversions and sales, but why not when they keep track of exactly everything else? My theory explains why people with shit sites get banned (even though they don't break the ToS) while the people with quality sites stay in the game. My theory also explains why people are getting banned without an explanation or reason whatsoever. "Your account poses a risk to our advertiser's interest". Yes it does. Basically, what I am saying here is that % of getting banned will be higher if you don't give something back in return to the advertisers.
@spycraft I see. However, I never liked G.'s Analytics so never integrated them anywhere, but on my home pages. Still if your sites are not a../not sure for the phrase in En/....made for a day, made only for Adsense, and as you say almost all of your traffic comes from SE's, I think you are pretty safe @Jontish Yes, something sounds logical in your theory and I agree, but still only G. knows it for sure. Maybe they just get a rid of those MFA sites slowly or maybe not so slowly... I still think it'd be too hard to track conversations, but who knows... In any case I am up for the rid of all the sh*tty sites that have no value at all.