theory on invalid clicks

I know I should let it go

[blairsp]

My account was disabled a little while ago for Adsense. Since then I have made it my lifes ambition to ..... (actually I haven't). However, comments on my theory.

I have a site which is about pictures of widgets. Each page has a different picture of a widget, one page with red, one with green etc.

So first theory- how long are you likely to spend on each page-20-30 seconds? Is this likely to raise a flag.

Second part-I have recently been going through old logs and noticed a particular page had received a lot of hits (and searches) Now this isn't a particularly well known widget.In fact I didn't even know about it until a few weeks before getting kicked. Then I find out that there has been a large scale documentary on the UK main television channel about it. In fact it isn't even a documentary, it is a series.

Now, no point in writing to adsense as their proprietary software is secret and they wouldn't tell me anyway and I have moved on - better paying adsense "clone".

However, is this the kind of thing that raises the flag, short length of time on the page, high level of hits to one particular page then perhaps(I don't know) exiting via an adsense ad ?

[wonderboy]

You will only get guesswork on here...

The proprietary nature means nobody outside of the Google office knows how the flags are raised.

What is this clone adsense program you speak of? I didn't know there was one that outpayed Google, PM me with the info =)?

W.

[europeforvisitors]

It seems to me that, if they were concerned about a lack of content, they'd be measuring the amount of visible text instead of how much time the average user spent on the page. Measuring text would be easier, since the Mediapartnerbot is already crawling each page.

[mquarles]

efv,

I agree as to methodology.

I don't think this is a factor right now, though, or else they would probably at least hint at it in the TOS. Their TOS are not perfect, but they do try to provide some guidelines, and I think being "content-heavy" would be too important to ignore in the TOS if it were important.

MQ

[blairsp]

I realise it is only guesswork, because as I stated at the start google certainly won't tell me. It just seems a bit of a coincidence(although maybe that is all it is).

Not sure if the amount of text on a page would necessarily relate to how long I spent on a page though, although a picture would. With text you could have 10,000 words but within two or three sentences I might jump away due to the fact that the page isn't what I thought it was about.

Picture though-unlikely to stay and stare at it for 2-3 minutes which I might or might not do with text (reading carefully)

[europeforvisitors]

Not sure if the amount of text on a page would necessarily relate to how long I spent on a page though...

No, but it might affect the ability of the Mediapartnerbot to match ads to content without relying on a small number of keywords supplied by the publisher.