Comments on: Google Gone AWOL

By: Jamin

Jamin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:51:53 +0000

I am noticing the exact same problem and just filed a support request with adsense but I’m not to confident that I’ll get a satisfying answer after reading all these comments. In the past 3 days I’ve received a huge spike in traffic on a particular post from stumbleupon. MyBlogLog is showing a fairly average CTR but adsense is reporting 10 – 100 times less clicks. I mean it’s like it’s not even counting any of the clicks that came from this new traffic at all. My best guess is that their fraud detection algorithm is viewing these as invalid clicks because it was a huge spike in traffic all from one source. That’s extremely disappointing if that’s the case.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:41:43 +0000

The question I have with regard to determining fraudulent clicks or not is this…

For all the clicks that google are not counting in my reports, there not paying me for are Google receiving revenue for those clicks themselves?

How would we know one way or another.

The term “Self proclaimed God” springs to mind.

By: Teddie

Teddie — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:47:19 +0000

That’s interesting, because Google claims only less than 10 percent of clicks are bogus, and if it was proven that infact they’d been telling advertisers one figure but penalising publishers with a much higher figure that would be serious fraud, and as we know 1 percentage point difference is worth 100,000,000 Dollars per annum in revenue. Anyway soon they are supposed to open up information about which sites in the network generate clicks so that will be easy to test.

By: Phillip Winn

Phillip Winn — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:52:47 +0000

If they recorded *all* clicks, advertisers would flip out — since a decent percentage of all ad clicks are fraudulent. It sound like you’re saying Google is going too far the *other* way, but that seems like it would be hard to prove. You see a click on an ad. Is it “real” or “fraudulent”? How would you know? (How would *they* know?)

They *shouldn’t* be showing *every* click in your AdSense stats, but how they measure fraud and how you measure fraud are obviously different.

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:23 +0000

@Randy: I’m in the UK and so cannot use YPN even if I wanted to.

I think the answer to your question is simply that most publishers would want ALL their clicks recorded properly, regardless of who is serving the ads.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:18:18 +0000

Question. If AdSense makes you more money and YPN counts all your clicks, then do you use AdSense or YPN?

By: MacBros

MacBros — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0000

Thanks for the link.
I would appreciate it if you update me if you get a response from them.
I would like to know what the heck is up with it also.