Is it normal to have unpaid clicks?

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Is it normal to have unpaid clicks?

Iam concerned...

wariental

1:23 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

I had 144 impressions today with 14 clicks and it says I have earned 0 dollars. Whats up with that?

leadegroot

1:35 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

That is quite a few!
Some possibilities:
1. the servers are out of sync and the money will take a couple of hours to appear (this happens from time to time, but they are doing quite well at the moment - for me, anyway)
2. these clicks were all judged as 'invalid' (and not necessarily in a way you need to worry about)
3. They paid less than a cent each. Although that would seem a bit much for *14* to add up to less than 0.5 cents (they round)
I get single zero-cent clicks often enough that I don't worry about it. Once I had 3 in a row.
But 14 seems too many - the fall back is to ask Google. They know, we don't.
The odds are you won't get a useful answer, though :(

Andrew Bassett

2:02 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

It's definitely not 3, I'll tell you that right now.

The first thing I'd suspect is that a friend or family member has found your site.

toldan

6:59 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

maybe 14 people clicked on "Feedback" link to report you to Google?

CanadianA

7:54 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

Did you click on your own ads? Google will not pay you for those clicks.

Simran

7:59 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

May be after few days u get email that "Your google adsense account disabled"

Thez

9:55 am on Mar 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

I believe clicks on CPM ads wouldn't get you anyting as well, as they are in fact CPM and not CPC ads. :)

Did you click on your own ads? Google will not pay you for those clicks.

Wrong. Read my post at [webmasterworld.com ]

nonni

1:02 pm on Mar 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

Maybe those were public service ads, which are run if there are no appropriate ads, if G can't figure what your page is about, or if your page contains words related to vices (alcohol, tobacco, gambling).

Andrew Bassett

3:35 pm on Mar 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thez said
Wrong. Read my post at [webmasterworld.com...]
Your post is pure speculation, and IMO, quite bull.
Google doesn't need to go by the IP address of your website. They can go by the IP address(es) you use to log into your AdSense account every day, and if a click comes from that IP, automatically declare it invalid. That would be the most obvious safeguard, and I'm sure Google goes much deeper than that.