200% Click Thru Rate

Strange Click Thru Rate

[submitx]

I openned up an Adwords account for a new site last week and one of the keywords shows:

Clicks: 2
Impressions: 1
CTR: 200%
Avg. CPC: $0.08
Cost: $0.16

Does this mean I was charged twice for one person clicking on the same ad twice? and if so how is it possible, with Google having safeguards to charge only once from the same IP.

[benevolent001]

i dont know what happened but may ne google machine will remove this click automatically when i revaluates clicks,

Lets hope for best

[patient2all]

I see Submitx scenario happen from time to time in my ads, whatever the reason.

If I look back a week later, I see that it does not get adjusted, still shows the 2 clicks for 1 impression. Do I pay for both, hard to say?

This probably happens even more often than it appears but it is only noticeable when the clicks are > the impressions, otherwise it's just mixed up as part of a larger number.

patient2all

[fclark]

I imagine this could happen near midnight. The impression happens the prior day (by a few seconds).

[submitx]

hmmm...I would guess the Google algo looks at each unique IP per 24 hour period, not per calendar day!

[fclark]

Not sure what you mean about IP. I'm imagine on some level, they do compare impression IP to click IP for fraud check, but the discrete impression and click events do happen at different times, even for the same IP. If I run a report for "today," it does not matter if today means within the last 24 hours or between midnight and midnight. Fact is that the impression can occur outside of your report query time period, however you define it.

[benevolent001]

Strange
Exactly same thing happened to my newly creadted campaign,just one impression two clicks?

I am bidding very low and on 10 positon for this keword got only 1 impression and two clicks may be this is the way google will try to take my money out when i am bidding very less

any way let see..

[novice]

Is it posible that somebody right clicked the ad and opened it into a new window, then closed that window and clicked on the ad again?

That, in theory, would give one impression and 2 clicks.

[Geetu]

relax guys. its just that the data has not yet pdated in your campaign.