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Possible Clickbomb Help (Urgent)

         

Grapetimes

10:24 pm on Apr 9, 2018 (gmt 0)

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I’m not sure if I am being clickbombed but I am
Noticing my CTR is higher than usual by around 1 or 2 percent this happened after I got traffic from a different source in social media, but the strange thing is is that I’ve used it before without any noticeable difference in anything. Could it be that the users are just clicking the ads more or is it an attack? Please let me know

Grapetimes

12:04 am on Apr 11, 2018 (gmt 0)

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I am only noticing around a 1 or 2% increase total in CTR, not around 500 or 1,000 clicks a day extra. Could it just be that I need to rearrange my ads again?

Grapetimes

12:24 am on Apr 11, 2018 (gmt 0)

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It seems to only be one ad on the first page of my posts that is causing a higher CTR

levo

7:54 am on Apr 11, 2018 (gmt 0)

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Server logs are useless to track invalid clicks. You need to keep a close eye on Google Analytics and Adsense reports. Keep your publisher, country, browser reports open (Adsense tabs of Analytics reports) and refresh them every minute or so. Invalid clicks show up in Analytics briefly, before the algorithms drop them, so you can get clues about which country/user agent/pages etc. causes them. Remember to take lots of screen shots, especially when there is a jump of clicks/earnings, and compare them when there is a drop of numbers so you can pinpoint an attacker. If and when you identify an attack, you can go back to server logs and match data to find attackers IP address etc.
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