Adsense clicks = no money

11 years ago

I'm going through the same situation since the beginning of this month. CPC has gone down way below to somewhere around 0.10-0.15 and number of clicks have increased. Most of the clicks are getting unpaid. One more thing that I've observed that adsense earnings are getting reversed. Like it was showing me $12 couple of minutes back but when I refreshed it came down to $8.

Just don't know what's happening out there. Have you experienced same behavior before?

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millert25 11 years ago

No fanta this is the first time, I am new to adsense so haven't been around the block yet. But... glad I'm not the only one.
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wlasikiewicz

11 years ago

It seems that you may have a bot or something clicking on your ads.

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patco 11 years ago

Originally Posted by wlasikiewicz

It seems that you may have a bot or something clicking on your ads.

And this will lead to your adsense account being banned!
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powerofschool

11 years ago

Adsense is all depends on the Advertisers bidding. Some times you may get less money for good keywords also on ctr. You may get good on ctr again, if you are getting for the long time before.

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

We have discussed it on some previous thread.
Lately Adsense has begun to decrease estimated earnings after some time, by turning some previously validated clicks to zero worth clicks.

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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Earl Gray

We have discussed it on some previous thread.
Lately Adsense has begun to decrease estimated earnings after some time, by turning some previously validated clicks to zero worth clicks.

That doesn't consistently happen to everyone & it's not normal.

My guess is, it's probably low quality traffic bouncing before the Adwords sales page finished loading, or accidental clicks by traffic & again bouncing before the sales pages finished loading.

OP, are your Adsense Ads easily confused as content/nav-links on your pages?

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millert25 11 years ago

I wouldn't think so, I don't try to confuse people with my ads.
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millert25 11 years ago

Even if I did, why would I suddenly start having this problem now and not all along?
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dcary13

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Earl Gray

We have discussed it on some previous thread.
Lately Adsense has begun to decrease estimated earnings after some time, by turning some previously validated clicks to zero worth clicks.

Would it not better to discuss first where some people can find some brain?

I have the feeling that will help in the end with adsense too.

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fanta81

11 years ago

Is there any way by which I could get to know the IP address from which ads are being clicked?

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fortony 11 years ago

I've noticed that a lot of my clicks are being adjusted down lately. I know that is something that has always occurred, but I am definitely seeing it more now.

Anyone else?

I wonder if they have changed the way they calculate payments, although I have not seen any notices of that.
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wealth1 11 years ago

Originally Posted by fanta81

Is there any way by which I could get to know the IP address from which ads are being clicked?

I've used Statcounter for years to monitor my traffic on various sites. It's free and an all-around useful tool.
As for Adsense, it could be several different things affecting payouts: junk/non-paying ads, recalculations on clickthroughs, differing CPC based on country and device, etc. Try checking your performance report for any given day/week/mnth and look at the 'platform' dimension. Traffic that comes from smartphones and tablets pay a much lower CPC compared to desktops. Maybe it's not so for others but it might have something to do with all these discrepancies.
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millert25

11 years ago

Actually fortony, now that I think about it, there were new terms and conditions that everyone had to agree to last week, I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

I just briefly red new contract, it doesn't deal with those things.

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terryd

11 years ago

On two occasions now I've had clicks that don't pay anything. Today I see there have been 11 clicks on this one site and last week there was a day where there was 16 clicks and no money paid out. I'm really not sure what is happening.

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bundalov

11 years ago

That has happened to me one. In like 10 minutes, I had 16 clicks with 0 cents... This really surprised me. But the next day it was back to normal. What happened, I have no idea. I didn't make any changes whatsoever...

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

In some conspiracy theory scenario I could doubt on malicious software made for this purpose

My invalid clicks are coming from the US. What about yours (if you can realize or assume)?

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fanta81

11 years ago

Even I believe my invalid clicks are coming from US. When I see my logs, it appears that majority of clicks are coming from US and earnings are far less than expected. The other day, I saw 24 clicks coming from US and total earnings were 0.08 cents which is obviously not possible. Just don't know what to do next.

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

There is a doubt, but not necessarily.

On my account invalid clicks are going on regularly almost on hourly basis

By the way, right now I have CTR 110% from the US visits, great

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fanta81

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Earl Gray

There is a doubt, but not necessarily.

On my account invalid clicks are going on regularly almost on hourly basis

By the way, right now I have CTR 110% from the US visits, great

110%. Better remove some ads from your blog else you will face the risk of account being banned.

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Earl Gray 11 years ago

Originally Posted by fanta81

110%. Better remove some ads from your blog else you will face the risk of account being banned.

Life is a risk, so Adsense is. I'm not doing anything irregular, that CTR from US is because of the fake clicks and I can't fight that.
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millert25

11 years ago

Have another click today, .05 !!!!! WTF????

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Hansons 11 years ago

Originally Posted by millert25

Have another click today, .05 !!!!! WTF????

May be these clicks don't have much CPC rate, or it may be from the same IP address, I think.. location also matters..
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Earl Gray

11 years ago

..118% CTR

lol

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kursat

11 years ago

I notice that some of the sites I have only one ad on a single page pays out nearly double for the same ad, where I have it with other adsense ads on other pages. I am sure this is a well known strategy but just discovered that for myself. So, try to keep your best spot for the ad on the page to increase payout.

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millert25

11 years ago

I am gonna try chikita and see what happens.....

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

Here is what I saw:
2 clicks with earnings from the US and few minutes later the clicks weren't just invalid (like it could be recently). Those clicks have disappeared from Adesense report panel, Google just removed them from the list.

If big G is working on securing trustworthy of Adsense platform it will be good for publishers too, since a lots of them lost it's accounts recently.

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paulgl

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Earl Gray

Here is what I saw:
2 clicks with earnings from the US and few minutes later the clicks weren't just invalid (like it could be recently). Those clicks have disappeared from Adesense report panel, Google just removed them from the list.

If big G is working on securing trustworthy of Adsense platform it will be good for publishers too, since a lots of them lost it's accounts recently.

Google changed a while back. They were no longer going to show invalid clicks. They
would subtract these, so unless you checked all the time, you would never know.

It would be hard to believe that you got 0 for 11 clicks, AND, those clicks stayed on
your reports.

But, I also know google is doing more CPM ads and call to actions. That is, a click
is not good enough. They must complete something. Still, they have stopped showing
invalid clicks in a timely fashion, and I would find it hard to fathom that they would show
clicks that were not counted.

They stopped showing invalid clicks because it made no sense in your overall stats. They
are adding more parameters to help adsense publishers.

Invalid clicks happen all the time. Sure, getting 11 in a row would be quite a bit. But the other
day, I had almost 50% of my earnings subtracted within minutes. Pissed me off.

Google does show money right away. They should change that. Instead of showing money
ASAP, they need to wait a few to validate them. Makes no sense to subtract later. Probably
pisses off a lot of webmasters, as well as put the fear into them. Google needs to add
a column of stats for invalid clicks.

I know I am regularly getting double-clickers. That's not hard to tell if you are checking all the
time. You notice your increase has decreased by 50%. Most likely a double click.

I'm not sure why google seems to hide the when, where, and how you get invalid clicks.
Unless you check constantly, you never know.

Paul

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Joshgarrod

11 years ago

It could be that you are being "smart priced", take a look at this article on Niche Pursuits about how to avoid it: How to Avoid Smart Pricing on Google Adsense | Niche Pursuits

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NewfoundMarketing

11 years ago

I'm having the same problem as everyone else. In my case, it's only happening with two of my urls. The others seem to be doing fine.

As anyone reached out to Adsense for a possible solution or repsonse?

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mrshark4

11 years ago

doesnt the price change all the time on adwords. i maybe wrong as iv never done adwords. Maybe some day but for now il stick to what works for me

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beantoe2 11 years ago

I think its normal fluctuation of prices...
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Earl Gray

11 years ago

Clicks that disappear after a few minutes don't has anything with "normal fluctuation of prices" or smart pricing.

I'm wondering do people actually read a topic posts before posting something...

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CletusVanDamme 11 years ago

My adsense account was banned a few days ago. I noticed that i would get money and then it would suddenly disappear a few minutes later.

After doing some research I came to the conclusion that I was getting click bombed by somebody else or a bot. I noticed that all the ads on the page would get clicked at the same time.

I would get a lot of fake registrations and people that tried to post to spam, but I never approved them.

You might want to temporarily take all your ads down to see if if somebody is messing with your site - look in your logs to see if there is some type of pattern or ip address that is constantly coming to your site.

I never had a problem with money disappearing until recently and then google banned me - might be something to look into.
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whland 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Earl Gray

Clicks that disappear after a few minutes don't has anything with "normal fluctuation of prices" or smart pricing.

Exactly. Adsense clicks that equal no money is sure to be clicks that are counted as invalid clicks.

This can happen if the user clicks on the ads and then immediately closes out the advertisers page that they landed on after clicking on the ad.

Or they didn't stay on the page long enough and clicked the back button.

Another reason is if someone clicks too many ads in a short amount of time from the same ip.

I think I remember reading somewhere that google only counts a certain amount of clicks as valid from the same ip in 24 hour period.

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Earl Gray

11 years ago

This is the right form to rapport invalid clicks https://support.google.com/adsense/b...clicks_contact

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millert25

11 years ago

Well I tried Chikita and they pay very low. I think it's messed up that you can get banned for someone else clicking all your banners and jacking with your site. So...... if you have competitors in a certain niche that use adsense you can just go to their site all the time and click their ads until they get banned? That's just crazy.

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HanifQ 11 years ago

Adsense seems to track the 'quality' of your traffic as well...if traffic is coming from search engines, I've personally noticed higher overall payouts and my sites that receive targeted search engine traffic....

However, if the traffic is coming from banner ads or other advertising networks, the payouts just don't seem to add up.

I don't think it matters whether its US based traffic or not, I think the referral source of the traffic makes quite a big difference, atleast in my experience with Adsense sites.

Also, advertiser bidding has a huge impact...markets can fluctuate quite a bit and your Adsense earnings may go down as a result.
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yukon

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by millert25

Well I tried Chikita and they pay very low. I think it's messed up that you can get banned for someone else clicking all your banners and jacking with your site. So...... if you have competitors in a certain niche that use adsense you can just go to their site all the time and click their ads until they get banned? That's just crazy.

Chitika sucked when I tested them a few years ago, not surprised they haven't improved. Their payout/conversion has to the worst, I can't believe their still in business in 2013, their turnover rate for publishers has to be huge.

Their code also triggers desktop antivirus software & sometimes shows up as a virus in Google SERPs. I haven't seen those virus alerts in Google SERPs drop a page in rank, but it would most likely send traffic running for the hills & not clicking the SERP links.

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Hansons

11 years ago

Of course, Chitika can't be a good alternative to Adsense, it is far away from this game....

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michaelcvang

10 years ago

Leave Google Adsense Ad network and use CPM based ad network like Yahoo Bing Ads Network Media.Net Contextual Ads Account.
It is best.