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OK, this is getting ridiculous

by longblog
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I never visit my own websites except when posting articles to make sure stuff is displaying correctly. I tell my friends not to click my ads. There is zero fraud or any questionable behavior on my part, yet Google is invalidating between $60-$100 worth of clicks revenue every month. What the hell is going on?
#ridiculous
  • Profile picture of the author Craig B
    It could be a competitor or maybe your traffic source is low quality. Is most of your traffic organic?
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  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    You're lucky that they didn't banned your account yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    It's not a good idea to tell people (especially friends/family) your domains running Adsense. The people that don't run Adsense & here your getting paid per each click will seriously think they're helping you by click bombing your Ads.

    I have no idea If that's the case here (friends/family click bombing), still your better off keeping your domains to yourself.
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    • Profile picture of the author longblog
      Originally Posted by Craig B View Post

      It could be a competitor or maybe your traffic source is low quality. Is most of your traffic organic?
      All of my traffic is organic. 90% of my traffic comes from google, and the rest from other search networks. A very small percentage of my traffic comes from backlinks and referrals.

      Originally Posted by GodMode52 View Post

      You're lucky that they didn't banned your account yet.
      Why the heck would they ban my account? The sites all comply with ToS, and there's zero inappropriate behavior on my part. All content is 100% original. I've been running adsense on these sites since 2008.

      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It's not a good idea to tell people (especially friends/family) your domains running Adsense. The people that don't run Adsense & here your getting paid per each click will seriously think they're helping you by click bombing your Ads.

      I have no idea If that's the case here (friends/family click bombing), still your better off keeping your domains to yourself.
      I know for a fact my friends and family aren't even visiting my sites, let alone click bombing them.

      Edit: Does anyone else who has established websites and good organic traffic with a history of decent monthly earnings experience this type of difference between their clicks earned and clicks paid? Back during the holidays (my prime months) I was getting as large as $200 adjustments to my earnings before being paid.
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      • Profile picture of the author mrbascorn
        Originally Posted by longblog View Post

        Edit: Does anyone else who has established websites and good organic traffic with a history of decent monthly earnings experience this type of difference between their clicks earned and clicks paid? Back during the holidays (my prime months) I was getting as large as $200 adjustments to my earnings before being paid.

        Man, Google always adjust your payouts. It's been like that for me for years. The bigger your payouts are the more they take.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by longblog View Post

        Edit: Does anyone else who has established websites and good organic traffic with a history of decent monthly earnings experience this type of difference between their clicks earned and clicks paid?
        For me it would be an extremely low percentage of earnings, like maybe less than 0.10% earnings. I know it's a very low percentage of earnings to the point it doesn't even matter.

        IMO it's probably one of two things, a click bomber or very low quality traffic that quickly bails from the advertisers web page after clicking the Adsense Ad.
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  • Profile picture of the author FraggleJ78
    Good ole Google. They love making marketers lives a nightmare. I just hope that one day another search engine rises up and is able to take a significant portion of their market share. I hate even having to rely on them for any paychecks. Especially considering they change their rules daily.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wes888
    Just to give you an idea, last month my finalized earnings were shaved off around 20% from the estimated earnings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    There are many things when it comes to invalid clicks etc.

    What if you have promoted your site on forums and visitors are clicking your ads again and again, or any site where your site link is there and your ads are getting referral clicks.

    For Adsense, only visitors from search engines is safe..
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