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A few days ago i had 450 impressions and 713 clicks.
Then the day after 1500 impressions 440 clicks.
And the trend continued but when I checked today
one of my sites had:
8 impressions 33 clicks and 0.00 earnings
another had 4 impressions 63 clicks and 0.00 earnings.
Please help me out with what is going on here please.
Is anyone else seeing this and should I contact google about this?
Help ASAP
Most of my sites are blogs with wordpress how can I locate my log files martini?
If you're having difficulty with that, contact your hosting admin. Beyond that you could try a javascript triggered hosted solution, many hosted tracking solutions have a free trial or a free version that could have you up and running within minutes.
Beyond that you could try a javascript triggered hosted solution, many hosted tracking solutions have a free trial or a free version that could have you up and running within minutes.
You're not going to have answers until you get your stats figured out.
Good luck.
Is anyone else seeing this and should I contact google about this?
I had similar a couple of weeks ago, my clicks went ballistic, hundreds more than yours over several sites for several days!
I contacted Google telling them I thought I was subject to a click attack but they were already on top of it however it won't do you any harm to let them know you've noticed it too.
You'll get a boiler plate response acknowledging it.
Second thing is looking at maybe taking the adsense off the site for a while... if it isn't generating any revenue but keeps receiving the click attack, it is better not being on the site.
Third thing is access to log files - this should be something every decent webhost offers in a shared hosting environment. I did host with GoDaddy initially but really didn't like their support or webhosting service at all, I felt it was amature at best while their support staff would have found it difficult passing 6th grade tests.
The main reason you need access to log files is that you will be able to provide proof to google that you were not behind the clicks... otherwise you run the gauntlet of being held liable and if the worst happened, you wouldn't be able to provide evidence to reverse the decision.
Good luck, hope things return to normal soon and that everything is ok.
PS. Maybe Google should look at putting in an automatic trigger to show PSA ads when a person clicks x amount of times within x amount of time. This would limit potential damage and help protect the publisher as well as the advertiser.
But I dont think I can access the server logs but I am really going to write to Google seriously because I dont know what was happening though it has stopped now. I am so afraid of the Google dinosaur though,
[edited by: martinibuster at 4:03 am (utc) on Feb. 14, 2008]
[edit reason] See Charter. [/edit]
