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As you know, during this time you may not be able to access your account. However, your Google ads will continue to display, and stats and earnings will continue to accrue in your account.
If you're in the U.S., try to enjoy the 3-day weekend!
ASA
could we merge the 2 threads or something?
Nice find. The article costed me a nice glass of wine and a new laptop.
The story as represented above is written as a satire or parody. It is fictitious.
Report only if before the maintenance:
1- You measure your daily clicks in more than tens of clicks
2- You site statistics were stable with no major fluctuations
3- Your earnings were stable before the maintenance
Hope this helps pinpoint changes (if there are any)
Man, I've really tried so far, but without my reports to check on every 15 minutes and keep me company as usual, I've felt nothing but lost. It's really messed with my orientation. I may have to take up flower arrangement at the local community college...
.. except maybe the song "I'm with stupid" echoing through my ears and I can't get it out. I think the 'inner me' is trying to send an instant message!
I have nothing horrifying to report (yet)
Unfortunately I have just had a friend asking me to check out his site, SERPs, earnings etc since his site has almost died!
He averages 100 clicks per day, lowest day this year Easter Sunday with 44 clicks, so far today 3 clicks!
He's hoping for a click dump since I can't find anything wrong as yet.
almost 24 hours now and things are holding.
Unfortunately I have just had a friend asking me to check out his site, SERPs, earnings etc since his site has almost died!He averages 100 clicks per day, lowest day this year Easter Sunday with 44 clicks, so far today 3 clicks!
He's hoping for a click dump since I can't find anything wrong as yet.
I think I have the same problem here. Clicks aren't registering for me atm. I'm tracking them with a script and I know people are clicking, but it doesn't show on adsense.
Clicks aren't registering for me atm. I'm tracking them with a script and I know people are clicking, but it doesn't show on adsense.
I think the guys at the plex are either laughing at this or hating our guessing their updates.
then that could possibly mean that the last maintenance was related to the anti-click-fraud algo
Interesting idea since my core sites seem to be updating quite slowly, EPC, CTR, eCPM are all fine, they just look a couple of hours or so behind what my logs are telling me has happened.
I'm certainly not expecting a Sunday like last week however, according to my logs, I ought to be at about 75% and I'm nowhere near that figure.
I am seeing delays in the AdSense stats again today, Monday, and again looking anywhere up to 2 hours behind.
If it's all to do with checking for click fraud etc, I have no problem, I just wish they would confirm that the updates are permanently realtime -2hours.
I do know that has been the actual situation for quite some time however it plays psychologically on the mind when one day at 15.00 one has say USD 50 then the next it's USD 30 then the next USD 60 meanwhile the entire day pans out to all three days being virtually identical.
I just wish they would confirm that ..
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a confirmation.
Google and specifically click fraud detection survives on ambiguity and in some cases I wouldn't blame them given what is at risk and what we see here almost everyday.
So all those who 'survived' this maintainance are safe for a while ....
or can the axe still fall ...
Green_Grass,
The click fraud algo is busy working in real time not only in retrospect, to answer your question: YES the axe can and will fall, surviving fraud detection one day does not mean you are safe tomorrow, just keep your nose clean and you have nothing to fear.
FUD is the word.
Thank you .. I will try to keep it clean ;-)
Of course fraud detection is a realtime process, I can understand that. What I was wondering was that if they did a major 'maintainance' for checking only click fraud and we were given a clean chit... :-)
Just maybe, we are o.k. for a while.. and we who 'survived' have no current problems with our traffic and clicks..
The future is not for us to see...
Google and specifically click fraud detection survives on ambiguity
Precisely how they perform it they need to keep under wraps however wouldn't we all feel better with the knowledge that our stats are actually valid however, say 2 hours behind reality, and that Google days are from 10.00 GMT and not 08.00 GMT? Or is it 09.00 at the moment?
Realistically it makes no difference to me whatsoever if it is 6 hours or so behind so long as I know this and that I see a good steadily rising earning's chart.
Do you remember when they tried real time stats a couple of years ago? That must've given the servers a pasting with everyone checking every few seconds for updates!
I would have a code that constantly monitors clicks and their sources, and store information for every single click that includes all obtainable variables like Advertiser ID, ad code, publisher ID, page clicked, clicker user agent, IP, referrer, frequency of clicks in the last 24 hours from that IP, from the IP class C range too, ISP, earned amount for that click.. the list is endless just for one click.
Another list for flags and alerts per publisher, have the alerts escalate with repeated incidents for the same publisher, advertiser or the person that clicked..
A publisher can be at green, yellow, orange, red, purple or black alert level, and get kicked out if a certain threshold of frequency of escalations or gravity of escalation, or a manual review.
Being still active says nothing about your alert level, also how many strikes you have survived so far and how many lives you have left..
An update in the click fraud algo (if this is really what happened, we don't know) is just a better, smarter code that detects more things or does it faster or whatever, has nothing to do with a publisher's survival.
All this is just silly guessing anyway, just work on your content and get traffic and leave the worrying for Google.
