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I've already sent an e-mail to google. I hope I won't get banned :(
Is there any reason I should worry?
This question is directed to small publishers.
Can be a single $8 click. That happens some times.
You can store each report under
YYYYMMDD HHMM.htm
Since each report contains the top 25 ad channels, You can identify what ad chanel brought a big change, how many clicks involved.
The only thing I fear is that Google from now on might keep an eye on me(provided that they don't ban me now which is very unlikely, it seems) and someday when something similiar happens they would ban me.
I don't know what to think - I might be somewhat obssessive(no doubt under the influence of those google-banned-me-unfairly-posts).
Anyway thanks for replies
b) the human brain is not good at estimating the likelihood of unexpected combinations of events.
c) clusters of events that would go unnoticed if you had ten times the traffic will look surprising, even though they're completely normal.
d) someone can discover a useful page on your site, post it in a relevant online forum, and result in a whole bunch of people coming to your site in a short time. Such "spikes" can be very hard to distinguish from an "attack".
Finally, in counterbalance to all the "I got banned by Google" posts, I also used to get worried when I saw $5 back when the norm was $.50. Despite knowing the math, it took a long time before I could actually appreciate that a 10-1 fluctuation is not that unlikely to come along when you're just starting out and have low traffic.
When you're small, the fluctuations look big. But if you take a look through the postings in this forum, you'll find very few that say "My earnings shot up to $10 today, and Google banned me!". The banned brethern seem to be making multiple thousands each month, as a rule. It would be plausible for Google to be focusing most of their limited fraud-investigating resources on the high-dollar sites rather than on the $5/day sites.
That's not a click attack.
Relax dude.
