Click attack phobia

Need Google's assuring helping hand

[Hobbs]

Just got scared &hitless!
logging in and opening my AdSense reports for my daily fix, the world stopped turning for a moment when I was greeted by millions of impressions, thousands of clicks and dollars too! I was not happy, it was scary, click attack echoed in slow motion in my head like an empty room, mastered enough energy to open last 100 visitors view in my cPanel and while it was loading switched with all the energy left in me to the Google Adsense page to open the 'contact us' and report it, then I discovered what really happened, it was this month's report not today's!
I'm going for a drink, this is too much!

[humblebeginnings]

Dear Hobbs, dear Hobbs...

You have redefined the way one can be scared $hitless for no reason. Meanwhile, sit down, have a drink, relax...

[Mr_Fern]

Ahahahaha

Psychologists are going to coin the term Adsensaphobia soon to describe the fears of publishers.

"Symptoms include: fear of click attacks, invalid clicks, low EPC, low CTR, and, abrupt account closures."

[dj_webm]

could be funny if I new the answer to authors question... i have couple of websites also, in quite competitive field, and earnings from adsense let me quit my day time job and concentrate only on my websites. But stories about 'My acc was terminated...' and so on - so its would be good to know that we have some protection against villans.... I hope google not banning acc just for the fun, but still...

ARE any 'safeguerds' in our adsence accounts?

[hunderdown]

Yes, there are safeguards. Click attacks happen all the time, but I've seen very few, if any, cases being reported here where the only reason someone's account was closed due to a click attack. I've seen reports of click attacks where the AdSenser saw it happening, emailed AdSense, was told that they knew about it, saw the clicks removed, and suffered no harm.

Not something I put much energy into worrying about.

[GuruSense]

if you know your being click attacked and tell google your account will be frozen.

I'm talking from a friend who did this and he never got his account back, becausse of some damn email to google.

Good luck

[hunderdown]

Sorry to hear that GS, but I've read of other cases--directly reported here, not second-hand--where that did NOT happen. Which makes me wonder if there may be some other factor in your friend's experience of which you are not aware.

[dj_webm]

please, can someone give me a real answer before i go for sleep :) never thought about it, but this post made me nervous - please call 911 :D

presume someone goes to internet cafe, calls all his mirc/skype/yahoo msg buddies and 10/50 people start clicking - not bots, but persons, they could click at a quite high rate i imagine... By morning its possible to find 1000+ clicks with which google wont be happy... so is it any safe guard procedure to cancel those clicks and keep my acc or I'd be done... sometimes i wasnt checking my acc for days, but this post raises some questions...

[europeforvisitors]

if you know your being click attacked and tell google your account will be frozen.

That hasn't been my experience.

What kind of site does your friend have? The site's content, audience, and/or track record with AdSense could have a bearing on what Google does when a click attack or something else triggers a manual review.

[Hobbs]

Didn't mean for this post to increase insecurities, but was hoping that sharing this ridiculous incident would achieve the opposite effect.

I understand Google's side, for in this relationship Google is not the big heavyweight, we are, we are in hundreds of thousands if not millions range, Google is only 5,000, AdSense Team cannot be more than a few hundreds, and every small decision Google takes in revealing more, communicating more, automating less will affect its service and income drastically in terms of more staff and opening holes for gamers and competition to go through, they have to be careful and survive on the uncertainty. For us it is easy to demand more, and expect the logical (our logic) to happen, but that's a one sided view, if you are the smaller (be it richer) with publishers who can switch tomorrow to the competition for a little more bucks, if you are shouldering your way through heavy competition, you will be very careful, this industry is fast changing and as worrying to Google as it is for us.

It's not the drink(s) talking, but I will go with trusting Google to do the right thing, and trust that if they have some assurances they will pass some our way. That will not stop me from seeking viable alternatives, demanding more and 8itching about their not doing the logical thing :)

[kartiksh]

ditto to first post. yes adsense click attack phobia is on its way. ;-)