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Weird clicks

Is someone clicking 'on purpose'?

         

rubenski

10:17 am on Sep 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi everyone,

I recently addad a news section to my site. When looking at my news channel in the Adsense admin today I noticed some weird stats.

(Numbers below are not the real numbers from my stats, but they do reflect the situation)

I got 40 views and 50 clicks, but I earned only a few cents for those 50 clicks. I have seen strange stats before, but never a CTR way over 100%.

Unfortunately I have no way to check what happened. I just emptied my stats database and my log files only go back 2 days. To complicate things even more, there is only one page in the channel, but it is a dynamic one: news.php?news_id=### are actually quite a lot of pages.

Anyone seen something like this before? Since only a few cents were added to my earnings I think there is not much need to warn Google, but I am just curious if someone else has had this weird behaviour and if someone is perhaps clicking on purpose.

Critter

4:54 pm on Sep 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



The admin section of Adsense updates the clicks before the page views. That's why you'll see higher CTR during the day, then it will settle by the next day.