Stealing Affiliate Links/ AdSense ad's?‎

[wrassie86]

Looking for info on this, I have a website tonight (godaddy) website. It's mostly affiliate links that are from Max Bounty. Its a fairly new site that is just starting to pick up speed. I use stat counter and Last few days i have been noticing a lot weird traffic. ad-sense ads that i see are being clicked but are not crediting(also the record in stat counter for the exit link looks a bit odd). that would go the same for the affiliate links, Al tho on these i really don't know, but for the amount clicks and past performance i find it hard to believe there have been no sign ups.
I also have a linked blog at blog spot, same is happening there also with the ad-sense i had 5-6 clicks yesterday and no credit.
Any info would help. I did not even know this crap existed in till today

[Jacob Martus]

Originally Posted by wrassie86

Looking for info on this, I have a website tonight (godaddy) website. It's mostly affiliate links that are from Max Bounty. Its a fairly new site that is just starting to pick up speed. I use stat counter and Last few days i have been noticing a lot weird traffic. ad-sense ads that i see are being clicked but are not crediting(also the record in stat counter for the exit link looks a bit odd). that would go the same for the affiliate links, Al tho on these i really don't know, but for the amount clicks and past performance i find it hard to believe there have been no sign ups.
I also have a linked blog at blog spot, same is happening there also with the ad-sense i had 5-6 clicks yesterday and no credit.
Any info would help. I did not even know this crap existed in till today

Statcounter's exit clicks are very unreliable. Take any exit click from Statcounter with a grain of salt.

Just make sure that the right publisher ID is on your site and Adsense will do their job about crediting you correctly for clicks. Statcounter is probably 30% accurate for me with exit clicks to Adsense. However, statcounter always shows way more adsense clicks than I actually get.

About the affiliate links, I'm not sure. I use Adsense almost exclusively at the moment, so that's all I can comment on.

[wrassie86]

Originally Posted by Jacob Martus

Statcounter's exit clicks are very unreliable. Take any exit click from Statcounter with a grain of salt.

Just make sure that the right publisher ID is on your site and Adsense will do their job about crediting you correctly for clicks. Statcounter is probably 30% accurate for me with exit clicks to Adsense. However, statcounter always shows way more adsense clicks than I actually get.

About the affiliate links, I'm not sure. I use Adsense almost exclusively at the moment, so that's all I can comment on.

Hey Florida. I live in Tampa. Guess i could fill out my bio. Food for thought on the 30%. I have found stat counter to be pretty much right on, up till this point. But things still just don't look right.
It should look like (ca-pubxxx my id xxxxxx) and host=pubxxxxxxx and then the long mass of code.