Finalized Earnings for March from Clickbombing

[jbayabas]

Goog has just finalized the unusual high earnings from clickbombing for March. They deducted almost 35% from mine. Ouch. Whats yours?

To calculate:

Finalized Earnings multiply 100 = x
x divide Estimated Earnings = y
100 minus y = results

[netmeg]

I suspect there are lists, and how and why sites get on the lists is anybody's guess.

For the Amazon stuff, only three of my oldest sites were affected. For another type of bot attack (that doesn't appear to be targeting AdSense) it's obviously infected PCs looking for a particular file, and it's only on one site (and not my largest or highest traffic site either)

Plus I think some of these just add sites willy nilly to try to smoke screen what they're doing.

It's kind of like when your house or car has been broken into - you feel like it was personal, but in most cases, it really isn't.

[ember]

It's kind of like when your house or car has been broken into - you feel like it was personal, but in most cases, it really isn't.

If my house is broken into or my livelihood is threatened, it is personal. But I know what you mean.

[wa desert rat]

Even though my site can detect a mobile device (most of them, anyway) and give them a version better suited to their small screens (with only one ad) I wonder if some of the invalid clicks are from people viewing the site in regular mode (not mobile) and just accidentally hitting the ads with fat fingers.

During the darkest days of the click-bombs I have to say that only one click from the mobile ad was shaved. But that doesn't say anything about whether some of the other clicks taken back were by mobile users.

Nothing is simple any more. :D

WDR

[alika]

I wonder if some of the invalid clicks are from people viewing the site in regular mode

Click bomb was for us

- from desktop
- from U.S.
- from CPC bids
- from our large rectangle

[Swanny007]

Oddly enough my invalid traffic totaled $0.04, so nothing. I'm surprised, I expected it to be like a grand.

[rveram]

1.62% for me