User clicking multiple times - help please!

Have very loyal users - will all clicks from same user count?

[richblend]

I have a site with many very very loyal users (may check the site 10 times a day).

I understand that google has put in place a safety mechanism so i cant sit there repeatedly clicking my ads all day by detecting multiple clicks and making them count for nothing. But what about if the same GENUINE user clicks an advert evert couple of days? Will i make money from clicks after the first one? Does anyone have any information on how this works?

Thanks in advance guys,

Rich

[jchampliaud]

In my experience Goggle seems to have very good mechanisms in place to distinguish between genuine user clicks and fraudulent clicks. I don’t know how they do it. I once had someone click over twenty times on a number of ads and I got credit for the clicks. So I’d say don’t worry.

[dt1961]

If you have genuine users clicking ads repeately then a pattern will develop. Google uses sophisticated software that will eventually detect these patterns and wham you get banned. It may take some time but you may get get that dreaded letter one day.

[Paris]

Rich, if someone who is checking your site 10 times a day is clicking your ads, odds are that your account may be banned.

That's because most ad clicks are generated from first-time visitors to your site. It's why forums and other community-driven sites have such crappy conversion rates.

Who clicks on ads? Someone who came to your site looking for something and then finds an ad that better suits what they think they are looking for. A loyal, loyal user doesn't even notice the ads. That person is there because they found exactly what they wanted on your site and are unlikely to stray.

That's why Google is right to assume that a perpetual clicker is a bogus clicker, especially if the clicks don't result in sale or service conversions by the sponsors.

In short, if you know a user doing that on your site -- and you know who it is -- tell them to stop immediately. That kind of show of support will get you booted from the program pretty darn quick.

[hunderdown]

rich, I have a lot of regulars, and as far as I know they don't click on the ads much. I have a couple of pages that I update regularly and that get many repeat visitors. The CTR on those pages was so low that I took the ads off them.

Unless you have given them some reason to click on the ads, you would have a pretty unusual group of regulars if they actually did a lot of ad-clicking.

[Mr_Fern]

I run one of those crappy rate community driven sites. Many of my users spend hours at a time on the site.

I think Google can tell by the nature of your site, and which ads the users click, whether or not the clicks are out of genuine curiosity, or out of some other motive.

[BillyS]

I'm having trouble understanding why a visitor (even a loyal one) would find your ads so interesting that he/she feels compelled to visit your site and click on ads during each visit.

Doesn't make sense to me, might not to Google either.