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Date Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings
Monday, July 18, 2005 41 119 290.2% $0.00 $0.00
Totals 41 119 290.2% $0.00 $0.00
Averages 41 119 $0.00
As you can see the eCPM stays at 0, and so do my earnings. What's wrong with AdSense? Anybody experienced such problems?
/metteyya
With respect the earnings - it varies widely depending on the site topic, the location of your visitors, whether there are any advertisers in that sector etc. Sometimes earnings figures are held back for double checking and it's possible for today's earnings to show in a week from now!
[edited by: oddsod at 4:09 pm (utc) on July 18, 2005]
/metteyya
Stop clicking your own ads. That could get you terminated, as is stated very clearly in the TOS, which you agreed to before starting AdSense. If I were you I'd write to AdSense and let them know, and apologize. You may get terminated anyway.
Re the lack of clicks by others--since the system IS reporting impressions, I don't think there's any problem. You may not have the ads in a good location on your pages, or in a good color scheme (you have to experiment). Or it could just be the traffic. 200 impressions over 10 days is very low, and it could entirely consist of search engine requests for pages, or random visitors. Until you get hundreds of impressions per day, you really can't assume you are getting meaningful traffic.
Final point--don't post detailed statistics here. That's another violation of the AdSense TOS. You can post your monthly earnings, but other than that you can only talk about them generally.
Not knowing much about your site, I would guess that perhaps you are showing a large number of charity ads - I saw charity ads on several pages. Charity ads could also be triggered by poorly optimized URLs, which I can see your site has.
[edited by: PatrickDeese at 4:19 pm (utc) on July 18, 2005]
Second, the system really works for thousands of webmasters. The way to check is to leave the code for a while and pull it if you aren't satisfied - not clicking your own ads. That costs advertisers money and is called "theft".
Third, there are several reasons why Adsense may not work for a particular site. I offered some reasons in my earlier post. Also, if it's the site in your profile you need to know that Adsense doesn't work well in forums. I'd suggest you spend some time browsing through some of the excellent past threads on this matter.
[edited by: oddsod at 4:16 pm (utc) on July 18, 2005]
Date Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings
Monday, July 18, 2005 41 119 290.2% $0.00 $0.00
Google doesn't pay for invalid clicks and I guess lots of them were invalid.
/metteyya
because somehow first Google violate the rules by not reporting the real clicks and views of my page
I think my prevoius post should answer your question as to why they aren't giving you earnings for those clicks. There SHOULD be no earnings for those clicks since you made them. But I'm adding this post to warn you to be careful--statements like the one you made above are first of all not accurate, because Google is NOT obliged to pay for or even report clicks they have determined to be invalid. Secondly, you are likely to annoy someone at Google if you email them about this with an aggrieved tone like the one that you have used here.
There is already a good chance that you will be terminated for such active self-clicking. Your best approach at this point is to write them apologetically, tell them you know understand how the system works, that you will never click your ads again, and you hope they will let you stay in the program.
/metteyya
I tried to generate more click
/metteyya
Is is possible that your clicks fell into one or both of those categories?
/metteyya
I know it for sure!
Follow the suggestions in previous posts. Wait till you've collected a few tens of thousands of page views. At a 0.1% CTR 100,000 page views will give you 100 clicks. See how that fares. For someone with hardly any traffic you seem to have pretty high expectations.
[edited by: oddsod at 4:40 pm (utc) on July 18, 2005]
There are validly generated clicks by visitors of my site, I know it for sure!
So you are saying that you made some clicks AND that there are other clicks made by other people? But how do you know that? Are you running a click-tracking script? Or did you stand over someone at a computer different from the one you usually used, and watched them click the ads on your site? Or in some other way?
It's entirely possible that Google invalidated YOUR clicks and the other clicks too.
I've already written an email to the support team [for second time, I hope this time I'll receive an answer] and I don't have anything to hide. If I wanted to generate clicks myself, I wouldn't have even written in this forum. My point is that I want everything to be legit and not to cheat.
/metteyya
For what it's worth, I occasionally see clicks on my site with no earnings associated with them. Possibly your site's focus is drawing visitors from locations/IPs that Google considers invalid.
Good luck with Google!
/metteyya
Hang about a bit longer, read several pages' worth of posts, and keep an open mind. It's better to spend some time learning about how to run the program now than to spend some time later learning how to get your account reinstated.
/metteyya
/metteyya
An average of 3 clicks per impression just isn't normal! That's probably the reason why you aren't seeing any earnings at all.
