$0.00 clicks?

Does this happen?

[qbert]

Is it normal to get nothing from clicks?
I hope it's not because google thinks I'm clicking my own ads, because I haven't.
I just checked my stats, and it shows one click (yes, only one...my site doesn't get much traffic), but it shows $0.00 as the earnings.

[rmphoto]

invalid clicks are seen as $0.00

[qbert]

that's strange. I wonder how google determines that one click, from god knows where, is an invalid click.

I could see if it was tons of clicks from one ip address, or even just one click from my IP address.

But just one random click?

[annej]

Are you getting no clicks for your whole site or individual pages? On a given day I might have 0 clicks on an individual page, especially if it's on a narrow topic page then the next I may have 3. On a isolated page it can vary a lot.

[xxxxxpp]

I have had 0.00$ clicks in the past too. especially the first few weeks after I started with adsense. maybe you can email google and ask them to explain.

[ScadSense]

Once... when I was editing pages, previewing, testing navigation, clicking, ... I clicked on my own Adsense ad by accident. I was logged into Adsense at the time, same browser session, etc.

A few days later, when the channel data was reported for that day... that adsense channel for the ad that I clicked had only one click reported that day... for zero cents.

Yes, an invalid click, and I was glad that Google's system simply flagged it for what it was.

[david_uk]

I'm not sure if PSA's count as clicks in the stats or not. If they do, you might be seeing PSA clicks.

[annej]

I see what you mean, not getting paid for a click. I didn't get the question.

Google catches invalid clicks now and then. They don't tell us how. It doesn't especailly mean you did the invalid clicking.

I had a series of clicks a few weeks back that I suspect kids might have done. I get some traffic from classroom assignments. I wrote to Google and they had already caught it and taken care of it.