Afternoon: 11 clicks. Evening: 8 clicks. Total: 8 clicks.

Adsense Reporting

[Dantol]

My AdSense account reported total of 11 clicks in the afternoon. By this evening, my AdSense account reports total of 8 clicks.

What's wrong? Why is AdSense stealing clicks?

[Dantol]

anybody here?

[ganderla]

They probably took off the invalid clicks from your account.

[larryhatch]

When does the Adsense clock click over to a new day? If its GMT / UTC (London ) time,
then evening in the USA becomes early morning the next day UTC.
Something like that makes my access_log files confusing. -Larry

[StephenBauer]

I have been seeing it at Midnight PST.

[Dantol]

What invalid clicks?

I don't click on my ads, nor do I encourage other people to click it.

Therefore, there should be NO invalid clicks.

Google is stealing big money from AdSense publishers. And that's just not right.

Also, I requested my PIN 3 weeks ago. I never got it. What the hell is going on with Google? I am in Canada - it should not take longer than 5 days to receive mail from USA.

[peewhy]

I'm on my second request for a PIN and seriously wonder how much extra interest Google make with all that money on hold?

[Dantol]

I am on my second request for PIN, too. I've been waiting three weeks already. No PIN. I live in Canada. It should not take more than 5 business days to get mail from the USA.

What takes them so long? They say we can expect PIN to arrive within 2 weeks. This kind of treatment is highly unprofessional. I am rethinking my relationship with AdSense.

[Dantol]

No, actually I am on my fourth week!'
Time passes quickly.

[HarleyGuy]

dantol
where in canada?

[TheDonster]

Dantol: sometimes Google will subtract clicks it feels are not valid and your account is not paid. It doesn't mean they think the publisher or a friend clicked on the ad. Once I had a page get hit with one impression and then 6 clicks on the ads within 2 minutes. I got 0 for all the clicks and rightly so since it was either a kid gone click crazy or someone simply hitting links. In any case, I doubt any of those clicks were valid or would convert and Google's monitoring program saw it this way as well, so no dough. As for your PIN number, I would definitely contact Google if I were you. Mine arrived within 3 days of being sent from NY state and I'm in Canada as well. The good news is that I have always received a human reply within 24hrs every time I contacted Google.

[OCSupertones]

I think everything updates at 12 midnight PST...after all, G's servers are located in PST.

I have had times where I got like 10 clicks and $.07

Sometimes people click multiple times, and I think flags go up eventually.

Brandon

[sailorjwd]

With regard to the PIN:

I had the same problem - waited 3 weeks and no pin.

What I found out is that while you may request it and they say it is sent - it ain't. They didn't send my first pin for about 16 days. Same goes for the second pin request... they waited about 16 days to send it. After sending the pin it arrived within 3 business days. In the end I got two pins and received each about 23 days after the request.

[Dantol]

HarleyGuy,

I am from Vancouver, BC Canada.

[Dantol]

Regarding click, here is one story. I gave a link to my website to my friend. He went there, got interested into my content, spend 1 hour reading articles on my website and clicked on ads whenever he felt interested. He told me, he might have clicked up to 5 times on Google ads. I was not happy about it, but what can I do? If people feel interested in Google ads, they might click them more than once. I don't want them to click more than once, but I can't put a warning message on my website: "please do not click on google ads more than once". This would draw undue attention to Google ads and it would be clear violation of AdSense TOS. Google will have to deal with reality: repeated clicks are there to stay. If visitors feel interested in google ads that relate particular content, they might be tempted to click more than once. We (publishers) can't do anything about it.

Regarding PIN: So, you are from Toronto and you got it in three days when they finally sent it? I will contact them today and tell them to send me that PIN immediately.