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I tried emailing the support, so far no reply.
Can anybody explain, why?
Thanks
[edited by: conjo_guam at 12:23 am (utc) on April 29, 2005]
if they had more people you'd be booted already so don't complain and stop being defensive alreay. You are clicking on your own ads, to make money for yourself. Essentially you're stealing from advertisers (many are reading this post), not matter how you split hairs or think that you're smater than them. None of that matters when G reviews your account; they don't even owe you an explanation. It's not a court of law and they don't have to prove anything. Google says black is white and it becomes so. In your case they don't even have to think that much.
You suggest that they can't afford to lose you; it's the exact opposite, they can't afford to keep people like you in the program. Not to mention that even after clicking on your own ads you only made 5 cents ;) for crying out loud...
I do want to make money legally and with some ethics.
Anyways, looks like this thread has run out of gas and is screaming.
Good for you all.
Regards
I think I just depressed myself.
Good luck to all. Google has responded and removed few invalid clicks.
Thanks to everybody.
Please clearly read my statements before responding. I said 140 clicks for my website.
I appreciate that English is not your first language therefore be careful when making such statements since in their own words "Google monitors clicks on Google ads to prevent abuse of the Google AdSense programme."
Unique visitors are the people who come to your site and click on the ads.
Go figure out yourself, about the site (in my profile)
Did you remove it?
Now people who click on their own adsense ads are saying, "Stop crying about someone else making money."
Glad I never bought into or emulated that "nobody owes you anything so stop whining" philosophy, as it is apparent that those who espouse it are little more than frauds.
This is too funny.
I appreciate that English is not your first language therefore be careful when making such statements since in their own words "Google monitors clicks on Google ads to prevent abuse of the Google AdSense programme."
I just dropped by because this thread is highly listed by ... ermmmm, Google ... for the search term 'Google Adsense'. I too considered the poor grammar, but noticed the near perfect spellings (typos granted) and punctuation. Funny how you see a lot of this faux foreign material in many forums, its either the use of online translators or some kind of disguise ;) .
Anyway, I have previously subscribed to Google's ad system and then unsubscribed through poor results. I am now reconsidering since experience now tells me that some of my content would see the best results with google. There are indeed plenty of other ways to generate income, but all said and done it all (including adsense) depends on the right ads being served with the right content and that the intended audience can be expected to click on the type of ads being served up.
And back to the original post ... please note that impressions are not the same as clicks - they contribute nothing in terms of income - [google.com...]
The waywardness of the clicks to earnings - can you really say that you know how much you will be earning per click? To quote Google themselves ...
The Google ads you are able to display on your content pages can be either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-1000-impressions (CPM) ads, while AdSense for search results pages show exclusively CPC ads. This means that advertisers pay either when users click on ads, or when the advertiser's ad is shown on your site. You'll receive a portion of the amount paid for either activity on your website. Although we don't disclose the exact revenue share, our goal is to enable publishers to make as much or more than they could with other advertising networks.
I'm not quite sure what you are expecting.
Its all seems a bit rhetorical really.
Again, i have no complains or hatred towards any of those respondents in this trail of messages.
I apologise for any remarks, which may have hurt your feelings.
thanks again
He already apologized. Get it over with.
please note that impressions are not the same as clicks - they contribute nothing in terms of income
silly me, what I should have said, was that impressions earn differently to clicks, but only if the impression is of a CPM ad. *tut*
When I enter into a contract and agree not to click ads on my own site, I don't click ads on my own site.
Believe it or not, some publishers actually act in a responsible and professional manner and no, I am not "fooling" myself.
I'm sure Google has logged the IP when I registered, now filtering clicks from that IP - and I've got a static IP.
Anyway, I'm now checking my website out in a dedicated browser with javascript disabled - since surfing my own website with javascript enabled makes the site CPM drop.
Sure, you have the right to click to your ads and no TOS should take away such basic rights from you.
In fact, to further screw the system, you should make a purchase every time you click the ad, so to finally kick out any arguments they may have in possible, long argumentation and mail exchanges.
You should persist in your endevaours and let no wall be an obstacle for you and your open mind. God bless you.
Is it a cultural trait that is inherited from decades of graft and lawlessness in their own country?
I just find it striking that this fellow's attitude identically mirrors the attitude of this one:
[webmasterworld.com...]
There are many examples of this - and I have friends and colleagues from this particular region - so I assume it has to do with social strata or some other factor.
Again, there are some responders, who continue to bash me. This reflects their neighbourhood and their way of life.
I have already apologized and they still continue bash.
I think, this will be my last post for this thread.
Thanks for all your wonderfull responses.
Keep an eye on your own culture. You may find some things even more shocking than click fraud.
Is it a cultural trait that is inherited from decades of graft and lawlessness in their own country?
gnomedeplum,
There is no evidence to support this statement. Keep in mind that there are click frauds everywhere in the world, in every culture. Do not think that click fraud only happens in certain country.
There are many examples of this - and I have friends and colleagues from this particular region - so I assume it has to do with social strata or some other factor.
I carefully rewrote this several times, and ended up leaving out an important part of what I was trying to say:
"I have friends and colleagues from this particular region who are absolutely honest, dependable and law-abiding"
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I certainly didn't mean to imply that every person from X country had a propensity towards dishonesty - and I am very sorry that it came across as such.
I probably shouldn't have posted anything about it - but intellectually I find it puzzling that the only Adsense cheaters who post here - that defend clicking on their own ads - are from this particular region - based on the limited sample of reading the WW adsense forum.
Anyhow, I don't want to get into a cultural / ethnic / racial debate - but I was just honestly curious what these posters had in common that would make them react in an identical fashion.
