Clicks per user?

[zipit]

I have been tracking our clicks and traffic lately, and I curious how others compare. How many clicks does your average user click on adsense? 1 Click? 5 clicks?

We get a lot of people clicking on more than 5 ads per visit sometimes.

[blairsp]

That, to me at least, would seem very strange. Google is set up so that the click won't spawn a new browser window. So, each person that does this either knows to hold down the shift key or right clicks on an advert. Straw poll of 30 people in an IT class at college suggests that a high percentage of people don't do that.

The other alternative of course is that people are using the back button, although forwards and back 5 times!-seems a bit high

[zipit]

No, they are clicking on different ads, not the same ones.

[blairsp]

yes but that still means the people are using the back button to come back to your website to click on another ad, or they know how to use shift and click or the right click button.

Don't think that many people are going to do either. I may be wrong, just my opinion

[TonysDesigns]

I have been tracking this also and some of the higher clickerz are sometimes doing 4-5 per IP. This is the only way I can track it, is by IP address. But I really wish they wouldn't click 4-5 times on different ads. I am afraid G might not like dis but it's out of my control.

[zipit]

We have had this going on for months, and Google has said nary a word. Why should they?

If my site delivers multiple google ads on "widgets" and my visitors are shopping around for "widgets" then why wouldn't they click on more than one ad?

They click on one ad, and the backup to my site again to look at the next ad (or another one) and click on it. Makes sense to me.

I would be more suspicious of 1-click per 1-ip. That would seem automated.

Take today for example. I have had several visitors click on 7+ google ads using one ip. They showed up in google without issue. One of those people earns me at least $12+ dollars for their visit.

I can't see how google can possibly find it invalid since it is a unique ip (certainly not mine) in another part of the world (or right next door, who cares?).

It also helps because we have sites with members, and it's the members usually doing the clicking. A large membership (growing) base helps keep continual clicks happening, and several at a time per user.

I was just wondering what other people's experience was on the matter. :)

[tebrino]

If your tracking software works correctly, it looks that you can expect "invalid clicks" e-mail soon...

[blue_eagle]

I also had same type of clicks. And it always make me nervous. I had some clicks 10+ from same person and banned their ip right away.

[zipit]

Why should I get an "invalid clicks" e-mail (it's been a good 8 months)? They are legit visitors clicking on different ads. Nothing in the TOS that says our visitors or members can't do that unless we ask them or pay them to do so, which we don't.

I can't control what visitors do in that respect and I am not going to ban my own members or visitors that are driven to my site. Google isn't worth that much.

[blairsp]

You started the thread with

and I curious how others compare

Clearly only a couple of people are replying so it is either:
a/ unusual
b/ so normal that no-one is willing to express and opinion.

You clearly think there isn't a problem, so not sure why (or indeed what)you are still curious. As I stated previously if I were google I would think it was (highly) suspicious for the reasons I outlined. However, I'm not, so it doesn't really matter.