Google Bot Clicking on Adsense?

14 years ago

I've never heard of this before. You sure it was the googlebots that did it?

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whoisray

14 years ago

Yes, I'm pretty sure just 2 visitors today and I got 4 clicks out of one. The other visitor was in the morning and the clicks happened an hour ago, the same time when the Google bot came by.

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AmazeMe

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by whoisray

Today I noticed 4 clicks on one of my sites in a matter of minutes which came out to a 57% CTR.

I checked the logs/IP and it turns out to be Google and their bot clicked on my Adsense 4 times in a matter of minutes. The revenue is still in my account and this is the third site of mine where a Google bot has clicked on my Adsense.

I just hope Google Adsense doesn't ban me for invalid clicks when it's their own bot doing the clicking. Anyone else have this happened to?

Can you elaborate on this?

When you say it clicked on your AdSense 4 times in minutes, are you saying it registered in your AdSense account? If so, how do you know this? Does AdSense show IP addresses in the reporting?

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yukon

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by whoisray

Today I noticed 4 clicks on one of my sites in a matter of minutes which came out to a 57% CTR.

I checked the logs/IP and it turns out to be Google and their bot clicked on my Adsense 4 times in a matter of minutes. The revenue is still in my account and this is the third site of mine where a Google bot has clicked on my Adsense.

I just hope Google Adsense doesn't ban me for invalid clicks when it's their own bot doing the clicking. Anyone else have this happened to?

4 clicks at 57% CTR means you had 7 people/traffic, you'll sometimes get high percentages on your CTR when traffic is really low.

If you only had 2 traffic/people & 1 clicked an Adsense Ad, that alone would be 50% CTR.