Excessive clicking

should I worry?

[selomelo]

I have a very small niche site with some 250+ unique visitors a day. Yesterday, I decided to place adsense on the homepage just to try if it works.

Today, checking the adsense at google, I saw that there are 50 clicks with 200 page impressions. All for 10 cents in total. Which means that each click is worth less than 1 cent=0.2 cent, or $ 0.002/click.

I have also a click tracking software. It shows only 3 clicks.

Google says that my site received 50 clicks
Installed software says that it received just 3 clicks.

I am aware from posts here that in reality, clicks reported by Google can be less than clicks reported by click counting programs.

Therefore, my case seems a bit bizzare.

Is it normal? Or should I worry and immediately remove the adsense? Or what else can I do?

[isomies]

I have been working on blending the links on my new site over the past couple of days. It has got so good that I managed to fool myself twice yesterday and inadvertently clicked my own ads (stupid I know) No revenue was generated by these two clicks though (only two clicks up till that point that day) so either Google must somehow not count some users clicks or the revenue for the two was less than half a cent, which is unlikely as the clicks on that site are normally worth a lot more.

[jomaxx]

1. These scripts can only track clicks from Explorer, so if you have a lot of traffic from users with Firefox, Safari or Opera, then your results will be quite inaccurate.

2. Google automatically filter out the most obvious invalid clicks, so if you're clicking your own ads then Google is already aware of it and you're probably hosed.

3. Possibly the clicks are on CPM ads or public service ads? I'm not certain whether either of these are officially reported as clicks. 25% seems enormously high for public service ads, but it's conceivable with a well-designed CPM ad.

[selomelo]

Thank you jomaxx,

Regarding your point 2: I just uploaded the page with adsense, and never returned to the site. So clicks were from somewhere else.

I use asRep for tracking. I just checked logs, and saw that 92% of the visitors use MSIE, 7% use Firefox. Also, 99% enabled javascript.

Therefore, I really wonder whence comes this difference.