From $2 to $91 in ONE DAY,& now I'm SCARED:-(

[vema123]

Hello, I'm a newbie and I've just been using AdSense for 1 year now. I've got a problem that makes me really really worried. Here's my problem:

I always promote my blogs and sites using forums and I usually earn around $1 to $5 per day.

Yesterday I changed room (category) in the forum I always use. Suddenly I got $91 in ONE day, with around tons of visitors and normal CTR. Again, all happened in just ONE day. The problem is when I checked my latest earning today, something strange happens:

I've got less visitors, but still abundant clicks, and EXTREMELY high CTR and I earned only $1.26. I suspect Google has suspected something wrong with my blog and has lowered the clicks.

Judging from the high CTR and extremely low earning compared to the numbers of clicks that I've got, What do you think has happened here? What I'm really scared of is that someone has either used software or manually clicked my AdSense repeatedly.

What should I do now? If you think I should contact any Google employees, do you have the email that I could contact?

I'm terribly worried now... Please kindly help me... thank you so much for any valuable answers provided.

[dburk]

Hi vema123,

As long as this new source of traffic is well targeted and you haven't violated any AdSense TOS, I wouldn't worry. However, if these people are just clicking your ads to show you a little love, in otherwords they aren't buying from your advertisers, then you may have a problem.

Unfortunately, you can't un-ring a bell. Just disable ads for this source of traffic and hope it doesn't trigger a review. You can use a WP plugin like "Who Sees Ads" that will prevent these ads from being shown to select sources of traffic.

On another note, it is a violation of AdSense TOS to display your CTR in a public forum, I would remove that from your post right away.

[vema123]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi vema123,

As long as this new source of traffic is well targeted and you haven't violated any AdSense TOS, I wouldn't worry. However, if these people are just clicking your ads to show you a little love, in otherwords they aren't buying from your advertisers, then you may have a problem.

Unfortunately, you can't un-ring a bell. Just disable ads for this source of traffic and hope it doesn't trigger a review. You can use a WP plugin like "Who Sees Ads" that will prevent these ads from being shown to select sources of traffic.

On another note, it is a violation of AdSense TOS to display your CTR in a public forum, I would remove that from your post right away.

Thank you so much for your advice, now I've removed my CTR. But I'm still worried as this may be a click bomb. Therefore I've removed all Google AdSense ads in that particular blog and reported to google my situation. Do you think I've done the correct thing here?

[John Dales]

If I am in your shoes, I would definitely report this to Google immediately.

[paulgl]

I guess I'll be the first to state:

Tell us what that room is, baby!

Paul

[m4ster]

I'd like to be at least half as scared as you are, a day.

[caksut]

Hi Vema

I think google adsense has detected your sudden traffic as fraud. Better you remove adsense ads temporaly until you find the root cause.You've done the right way.

[vema123]

Originally Posted by caksut

Hi Vema

I think google adsense has detected your sudden traffic as fraud. Better you remove adsense ads temporaly until you find the root cause.You've done the right way.

One of my friends' friend also experienced the same thing only a couple of months ago. And though he reported about this issue to Google immediately, his account was disabled within a few days. This makes me think if reporting to Google regarding this click fraud issue is ENOUGH.

I've also sent email to adsense-id@google.com and adsense-support@google.com just to make sure that any Google employee will take care of my problem immediately.

If there's anyone who's experienced the same issue as what I have right now, and still survive, please kindly let me know of what I should do next to protect my AdSense account. Thank you so much

[desi4eva]

Vema123 - I had the same issue once with one of my blogs I advise you contact Google who will at some point refund the clicks back to the advertisers

[vema123]

Originally Posted by paulgl

I guess I'll be the first to state:

Tell us what that room is, baby!

Paul

It's a non-English forum site where most of its members don't know much about AdSense. I guess since 99% members of this site don't speak English, they just click bombed my site happily

FYI, I even posted my thread in that forum site using an Asian language. Still wanna try your luck?

[vema123]

Originally Posted by desi4eva

Vema123 - I had the same issue once with one of my blogs I advise you contact Google who will at some point refund the clicks back to the advertisers

May I know when exactly you had this same issue as mine? But your AdSence account is still safe till now, isn't it? What did you do then?

[devilishsaint]

You should have discussed the above mentioned problem in google help forums.

[vema123]

Originally Posted by devilishsaint

You should have discussed the above mentioned problem in google help forums.

I have posted the thread. But NO ONE responsed! Unbelievable! I've also learned from Google help forums that there are so many people complain about their unresponsed problems there...

By the way that particular blog which was infected by click bomb is a blogspot and I never integrate it with Google analytics, and I only have histats on it for statistics. My question is:

How do I know traffic logs which can show me my the visitors' IP addresses, referrers, etc BEFORE I install any tools on it? I'll need this info when I have to appeal...

Thank you so much for any support you all give me in this forum.

[askloz]

If you're really concerned, contact google, email them.. and let them know immediately. If you show them that you are trying to monitor things, they'll be more understanding, and wont be in that mode of "Click, account suspended mode, then email later to let you know"... they'll take into account you're trying to prevent, or at least notify them of weird / abnormal activity, in fact it's part of the TOS. And you should be ok. If they find nothing wrong, then well done on making $91

[dolee259]

what is room dude? well i have got this problem once but reason was that my blog link is on homepage of socialbookmark site but i as the link drop everything all right.

[vema123]

Finally google disabled my account today!

So why the heck did I report the click fraud then if that was NO ANY USE AT ALL???

And why I never get any email fm google about it? I just found notice like "your account was temporarily disabled because of violation of Google TOS..."

And I can't even access my blogger account...

but I still see my adsense ads are still there...

My question is:

Have I really been banned fm google???

[vema123]

Originally Posted by peterum02

no need to worry i've also experienced that same thing

I don't understand. Do you mean I will get my account back? why???

[st0necol]

Sorry to hear that, I hope everything will get better, you should ask Google about what did you violate ? I am sure if you prove to them that it wasn't your fault, you'll get your account back.


Also if in the future you can afford a self-hosted blog, go for that because that would ensure if Adsense got you blocked, your blog will still be safe and your traffic etc won't be troubled You can then explore other ways as well of earning online for instance ClickBank etc.

[euhlir]

It could have been a click bomb, but Google is always watching out for it. You should be alright if it subsides.