Kids are #1 in adsense clicks

kids , adsense , clicks

[chaaban]

Today i was in the kitchen , preparing some food to eat , i saw my 2 little cousins on the pc (~ 5-7 years old)

They know google ...

so they were just happy searching for keywords (like there names , cheat codes for there psp , computer games ..........etc)

i was looking @ they clicks they were making on sites , 80% of clicks were made on adsense ads!

kids wont read what's it's about , they will just click the first link they saw!

how many kids do you think there are? :)

good luck for adwords people .....

[creepychris]

Good thing my sites are not kid oriented. Looking at the keywords people use to find them, it's unlikely that those are kids' eyeballs behind the clicks.

[Tearabite]

i have ONE page in my site that is related to a website/blogger site that ALL the kids are using these days (12-25 year olds).. this page gets more traffic than all my other pages combined.. it also has the worst CTR. Go figger..

[jema]

I get a lot of kids, young teenagers anyway, and I would not say they are very click happy. Probably only get you smartproced anyway!

[FourDegreez]

I get a lot of teenage traffic. They enter their age to access part of my site. If they are under 18, I don't show AdSense. Good practice, or bad? I figure they aren't what the advertisers are looking for in my topic area.

[Tearabite]

'If they are under 18, I don't show AdSense. Good practice, or bad? "

Great for the advertisers.. bad for you?

[Andrew Bassett]

Chaaban, maybe you have some bad genes. :p

[Alioc]

Chaaban, maybe you have some bad genes. :p

Now what was that? Humour?

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Chaaban, I think the thing about kids is that they don't care if it's an ad or not. So when an ad is placed right in front of where their eyes focus, and if it's something that interests them, they go ahead and click.

And the thing about adults who are familiar to web browsing and used to see "Ads by Gooooogle" everywhere, is that they know what they're about to click is advertisement and if they think the site doesn't deserve a profit, they might not proceed to click.

So basically we can say that, for adult audience, the quality of a site is an advantage for Adsense CTR, and doesn't matter for younger audience.

[mm1220]

Those kids may have been clicking on the adsense ads but I'd worry about the effect of their clicks on smart pricing.

Seeing as they're less likely to make any purchases (not having credit cards) on the destination site I'd say that many advertisers wouldn't want their clicks.

[david_uk]

I think the only kids that visit my site are the older ones wanting to copy and paste my content into their homework!

I now have a page that points them to the area's of the site of interest to them in the hope they will stop emailing me "I've got this project to do, I need it in by Monday please do it by return for me" type emails. Now they have to look it up themselves - ahh..

Big question in light of this thread is "Should I put ads on the page" :)

[annej]

Big question in light of this thread is "Should I put ads on the page"

I have a page like that, basically it tells kids where and how to find information on my topic. I DO NOT have adsense on it. I've had repeated clicks from kids before and notified Google. Google claims they automatically adjust for them and that my site is in good standing but it still makes me uneasy.

Instead I have Amazon books where I would usually have AdSense. Not that it sells that many books but it's something to put in the left column.

But that doesn't make you save from kid clicks because sometimes teachers refer kids to a specific page and not the home page where the kids help page is listed. So I've had the kid click problem on other pages too.

I may have distracted them a bit of late. I just added a search box on most of my pages.(not google search) I can tell from some of the search phrases used that kids are having fun playing with that now.

[thegreatpretender]

Yeah, I saw this. I was watching my 8 year old son playing an mmorpg and can't believe adsense is all over the place, one almost in the middle of the screen. My son was very annoyed as he always accidentaly clicked on the ads. So, what I did was blocked adsense from appearing on his computer. Pity adword advertisers.

[evietnamgroup]

yeah, I agree with you that Kids are #1 in adsense clicks, and in my case, kids are also #1 in making an account banned. I have my 6 y/o who clicks several times on my adsense and now i'm away from it.

[bts111]

The only problem with children clicking on ads is that they don't own credit cards. They will someday, so I don't see a problem ;)