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Have a look through some of them, no one has come up with any firm opinions or conclusions as yet.
Could be one, some or all. It's a funny old game. ;)
350,000 impressions with about 2500 clicks
Is that per day or monthly?
If, IF the next few days continue in the same vein as today then I shall be able to come to more positive conclusions as to what happened with the Rodeo and Twister "maintenance" updates.
I have a pretty good suspicion about an over-implemented anti-fraud "screw-up" and they have been trying to tweak it back into line.
That's my opinion and I cannot prove it as yet however I'm also pretty sure whatever it was that happened was for the good of the AdWords/AdSense programme.
As much as my earnings have reduced I am sticking with them on this for the moment, even though I said yesterday I would be removing AdSense, since, at the end of the day, a successful AdSense programme is good for us all and to weed out these fraudsters is the best thing that could happen.
And for those that do not believe that this fraud is happening then you had better believe that organised gangs are "in action", there's plenty of stuff out there to read.
It would have been nice to get some soothing words from ASA on his/her reappearance but that was not the case.
I'm now down to 16% of the earnings I had seen for the past year. My impressions are normal to high while my clicks (not CTR) are almost non-existant. Just what is it that might be going on?
Chapman
OptiRex begins incinuating fraud on the part of our enablers.
Oh no, did you read it that way? I am not insinuating fraud by Google, I just feel they may have tightened their new anti-fraud measures too tight or too over-zealously for the genuine Adsensers and that we've been hit in this process.
Friendly fire I think the Army calls it!
My sincere apologies... sorry for the misinterpretation!
Chapman
thats per day!
I wish I had a day when I thought 100/day was bad ;)
I also have seen revenue drops, it's depressing!
This is the lowest i've had in a while...is it smart pricing?
It could be for any number of reasons. See the many previous threads on the topic of why revenues/EPC/eCPM/etc. might drop.
Thanks TheDonster for the link above - read the whole thing! Some very interesting ideas in the replies. Hadn't heard of using captcha for fighting bot click fraud yet, though I think perhaps prompting users to do it every time wouldn't be workable, but maybe once per session sounds like it might.
It doesn't prevent human click fraud. There are also some studies that say users are disturbed by captchas. It would be risky to introduce captchas without finding a way to make them less intrusive to the user experience.
