Adsense Click Bombed

[Rough Outline]

One of my sites has apparently had adverts clicked 35 times on it in just 29 page views.

The CPC is seriously low so the earnings are nothing to write home about but I'm worried because it looks really fishy, anyone else ever been click bombed?

[yukon]

Login to your Adsense account, I'm sure Google tracks IPs, at least they'll see the clickbombers IP doesn't match the IP that logged into your Adsense account.

[FokusNow]

I would remove adsense from that site for the time being and contact google. Better safe than sorry in my opinion.

[Rough Outline]

I logged an with the invalid activity form for adsense so they know that I've recognised the odd behaviour. Also the value of the clicks is starting to fall, my other sites haven't been affected but the site that got click bombed has lost all money value from those clicks which is re-assuring.

[Jenny4u1]

Remove ads for few days. Then start again that is the only way to avoid click bombing.

[yukon]

I wouldn't touch the site/Ads.

I think Google is smart enough to know If your getting click bombed (clickbombers IP).

If your logged into Adsense Admin. they can easily compare your IP to anyone else. I can't prove that, but I'm very sure they are advanced enough to track what you do after being logged into Adsense.

I wouldn't touch the site, let them self correct the problem. Messing with the Ads a lot while getting click bombed would look suspicious to me. Just saying...

[retsek]

You had better use the form in this link to report those invalid clicks.
https://support.google.com/adsense/b...clicks_contact

Get it on record as soon as it happens!!

See how they mention it's your responsibility ? Take responsibility and remove the ads until you're sure that the clicker has moved on.

Include IP addresses, dates and times in the form above, and mention that you temporarily removed the ads.

[bogscans]

I hate that adsense thing. I was banned.

[JeanneLynn]

I read on Webmasters Forum that Adsense says that you must remove the ads right away when you suspect you are being click bombed.

[GeorgR.]

No Google is NOT "smart enough"..i was banned once two days after i got click bombed, even after immediately notifying them.

Tip: Take your ads from all sites like blogspot and similar widely known sites..those are hot-spots for clickbombing.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

No Google is NOT "smart enough"..i was banned once two days after i got click bombed, even after immediately notifying them.

Tip: Take your ads from all sites like blogspot and similar widely known sites..those are hot-spots for clickbombing.

I've got Ads all over blogspot, been running for years, I'll take my chances.

Heck If your going to be afraid of clickbombers, what's the point in signing up for Adsense to begin with? It's not like clickbombing was invented yesterday, it's been around for years.

[Rough Outline]

Originally Posted by retsek

You had better use the form in this link to report those invalid clicks.
https://support.google.com/adsense/b...clicks_contact

Get it on record as soon as it happens!!

See how they mention it's your responsibility ? Take responsibility and remove the ads until you're sure that the clicker has moved on.

Include IP addresses, dates and times in the form above, and mention that you temporarily removed the ads.

Did that yesterday, I was hoping that it was just one person being an idiot yesterday but it's continued through to today so I've removed all adsense ads as well. Should I wait a few days now or what?

[Adsman68]

I had it earlier this month. 25 page views, 56 clicks. It registerd about $20.00 initially. Within 5 minutes this was readjusted by Adsense to about $1.00. Took ads off for 2 days. Put them back on, nothing since. Did not report to Google as they seemingly corrected the overpayment within minutes. No clickbombing since then.

[Europe Classifieds]

Google says that there is no need to report invalid clicks.

So ...

[outwest]

I would also think they have some way of comparing IP of clickbombing clicks origination and comparing that IP with The IP addy of other Adsense account holders

so if you are clickbombing your competitors and google sees that hey the IP addy of this clickbomber also has another Adsense account, and WOW they are running an identical niche as this guy........................hmmmmm BUSTED

[Fernando Veloso]

In a perfect world Google would solve that for you. But unfortunately this is NOT a perfect world... so you better get ads down for a couple days and check your server logs, see whats happening.

[MMateo23]

Sometimes you could sign up for a service (i.e. Atracta) that will send robots to your sites and click on your ads. That happened to me and I was banned from Google, even after advising them of this activity. It did not seem to matter to them that it came from a different IP address than mine. I guess they think that I logged on at the local library and clicked my own ads.
The safest thing to do is remove the ads temporarily, check your traffic to make sure that you are not getting a high number of visits from one IP address. If that is the case, you could block that IP address and then place your adsense ads back onto your site. Later Mario

[Chris Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Rough Outline

One of my sites has apparently had adverts clicked 35 times on it in just 29 page views.

The CPC is seriously low so the earnings are nothing to write home about but I'm worried because it looks really fishy, anyone else ever been click bombed?

Keep in mind that just because you have more clicks than page views doesn't necessarily mean you've been click bombed. Someone can hop on your site and see more than one ad that interests them, so they'll click on both. It happens all the time; I even find myself doing it sometimes. And if it does turn out to be click bombing/invalid clicks, the first thing G will do is de-value those invalid clicks. I wouldn't worry about it.

[Thierry Samuel]

if you use wp click plugin, there you can track the visitor, and checking out the visitors country. if you get continuously click bomb, you can blacklist the visitor's country.

[Rough Outline]

This blows, first my payments were put on hold and my account was frozen so I couldn't enter analytics, and now they have completely disabled my account, I can't even log in.

All of this because some utter c- decided to click bomb one of my sites that wasn't even getting much traffic.

Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? Even if my appeal is successful, how long will it take to go through?

[boxoun]

Adsense sucks. Wow. Sorry that happened.

[bundalov]

Hello everyone.

It happened to me one time, I got 16 clicks in 5 minutes.
I removed ads immediately and waited two days before I've put my ads back on site.

[Maraun]

I'm sorry this happened. Please keep us updated on your appeal process.

[Torreylee]

Originally Posted by Europe Classifieds

Google says that there is no need to report invalid clicks.

So ...

Yeah, but to be safe I'd still report it. I have seen friends get banned and they don't respond to you afterwards so you might as well dialogue with them before something bad happens.

[BigNorm]

I know there are plugins which you can install on your site which limited the amount of times a particular IP can click on your ads. You can dictate how long till they can click on an ad again.

[Rough Outline]

Originally Posted by BigNorm

I know there are plugins which you can install on your site which limited the amount of times a particular IP can click on your ads. You can dictate how long till they can click on an ad again.

If I get my Adsense account re-instated then I'll definitely install plugins like this. I'll also keep everyone updated on how my appeal goes, bad or good.

This really sucks, because I play 100% by the book, this wasn't even my fault. It was some idiot who thought it would funny, clever or whatever to click spam a site that I hadn't been actively working on (it was just a website that was pulling a small amount of traffic and money each month), as I was concentrating on other sites for adsense.

I provided Google with as much information as possible, saying how I issued an invalid click form straight away, how I removed ads immediately and so on.

I said numerous times that my account as a whole was not the problem, it was one site that was affected but after I put the ads back there was no odd activity like there had been before, so even that site wasn't showing any long term effects.

If I don't get my whole account back then I'll be livid, at worse they should just remove the site that was affected, which would be annoying but it can be monetized with other stuff easily.

I just have a few sites bringing in a lot of traffic and money, where the only real revenue solution is adsense. Any other advertising network, affiliate program and so on will simply not bring in the same money, maybe a smaller percentage, but adsense allows me to max out on revenue potential on a few sites.

[outwest]

You can always sue Google for deactivating Adsense like that one guy did and won
then google appealed and he lost and the judge gave him 0 dollars and no court costs

[Rough Outline]

So this was the response I got from Google, not the one I was looking for...

Hello,

Thank you for your appeal. We appreciate the additional information you've
provided, as well as your continued interest in the AdSense programme.
However, after thoroughly re-reviewing your account data and taking your
feedback into consideration, our specialists have confirmed that we're
unable to reinstate your AdSense account.

As a reminder, if you have any questions or concerns about your account,
the actions we've taken or invalid activity in general, you can find more
information by visiting
Disabled account FAQ - AdSense Help.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Utter BS and no explanation. A complete kop out and just sh-ing on the little guy. Sent a strongly worded email, but expect no further response or anything further done to my account.

[OO]

Email Google, don't risk your account that's what I would do.

[Greenfatman]

I'm really sorry mate...

Some advices:

- Google said is not possible to reinstall your account, why don't you try apply for a new one???
You can do that, with different bank account or maybe if you married, you can apply with partner name, maybe brother,sister,mum, dad...
The best thing to do (my primary choice) is open a business company,open a business account with the same name of your company and apply for adsense as business(not individual),google is very clear you can do that as alternative to have more than one account, you can even have 10, 20 accounts this way.If you do that let us know the whole process ,please,because alot people is thinking on have more than one account in case s##t like that happens .
And 1 more thing I wouldn't waste my time contacting google, move on!
Get another account.

All the best.

Regards,

Originally Posted by Rough Outline

So this was the response I got from Google, not the one I was looking for...



Utter BS and no explanation. A complete kop out and just sh-ing on the little guy. Sent a strongly worded email, but expect no further response or anything further done to my account.

[Greenfatman]

We are all in risk... Google many times disable an account not because of the owner but because the activities on the site(in your case) can damage their reputation and make the advertisers give up of adwords...It can happens with each one who has adsense account...

I'd never send any letter, I'd just rather take off my adds from this site, I think they checked the whole thing deeper because of the form you sent.

[Carl Brown]

"Don't be evil"??? Google's a joke. They know when a site's been click bombed. It is no problem to simply not count those clicks. Google really needs some serious competition.

I'd never send any letter, I'd just rather take off my adds from this site, I think they checked the whole thing deeper because of the form you sent.

Me too. Drawing attention to a problem seems to make it worse

[Rough Outline]

I agree, in hinesight I wished I hadn't sent an invalid clicks report, they basically punished me for doing the right thing.

Here's what I said told at the Google forums -

They'd never know where that "click bombing" of yours was coming from. They'd rather close down Adsense for dozens of domains than risk being ripped off by click fraud rings. I'm frank: there's enough publisher out there wanting to participate in Adsense, so they don't need to care a bit about a lost tiny fraction out of their huge publisher pool.

Nice to see Google cares about the little guy.

[Rough Outline]

In the interest of keeping things updated and also as a warning to anyone else wanting to use Adsense, here is the farcical thread I started at the Adsense forums...

1 Site Click Spammed - Entire Account Disabled - Sound Fair? - AdSense Help

[outwest]

Just apply for a business license in your city, open a bank acct in that name, simplea

reapply in the name of the business
not as easy as the first time but not the end of the world either
plenty of people have multiple adsense accounts just INCASE they get booted off of one

[premiumseoservice]

i rather remove the adds right away. Just in case... then you can put your adds back in a week or so and wait see what happens

[RayW]

To OP: The click-bombing may not have been the reason why your account was banned. It might have been something else that Google saw while on your site (i.e. no privacy policy, no content above the fold, etc).

[mandos123]

That's ***** frustrating. I feel very sad for you.
However, for example, If I get banned from adsense and I open new account under "company" or "cousin" is it OK to put the Ads on the SAME page again? Or should I build new sites? :X

[dminorfmajor]

Originally Posted by FokusNow

I would remove adsense from that site for the time being and contact google. Better safe than sorry in my opinion.

I'm going to respectfully disagree with that advice. If it's not his fault, why screw yourself out of potential earnings from future visitors?