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  • Jace
    FBOP Class Of 2013
    • Jan 2004
    • 35562
    #1

    "It has come to our attention that invalid clicks or impressions have been generated"

    ANyone ever get that from google?

    Hello XXXXXXXXXXXXXX,

    It has come to our attention that invalid clicks or impressions have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s) through users of third-party programs paid or provided with other incentives to visit your site. Such programs include, but are not limited to auto-surf, pay-to-surf, pay-to-read, or pay-to-click sites.

    Please bear in mind that if we continue to detect invalid clicks or impressions from these services on your ads, we may disable your account to protect our advertisers. In addition, we may adjust your future payments for any days during which invalid clicks occurred in order to properly credit advertisers for any invalid activity.

    We understand that you may wish to receive specific information regarding the invalid activity we observed on your account. However, due to the proprietary nature of our algorithm, we cannot disclose any details about how our monitoring technology works or what specifics we found on your account.
    I don't even surf to the sites that I have google adsense on, they are ALL on autopilot, I haven't even literally pulled one up in a web browser in months
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    • candyflip
      Carpe Visio
      • Jul 2002
      • 43074
      #2
      Yep. I had my blog network set as homepages for the computers I have set up for my customers at the deli.

      I logged in to adsense and I'm guessing some customers clicked all from the same IP.

      Lost the account and all the cash in it. They say their giving it back...yeah right.

      Spend you some brain.
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        • Jace
          FBOP Class Of 2013
          • Jan 2004
          • 35562
          #3
          Originally posted by candyflip
          Yep. I had my blog network set as homepages for the computers I have set up for my customers at the deli.

          I logged in to adsense and I'm guessing some customers clicked all from the same IP.

          Lost the account and all the cash in it. They say their giving it back...yeah right.
          eek, I don't even do that....I seriously do_not_touch the blogs I have adsense up on, not even opening them in my browser

          oh well, I I hope it doesn't continue, I make a nice bit of extra cash each month off google

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            • seeric
              ..........
              • Aug 2004
              • 41917
              #4
              at least they have mechanisms to detect their click fraud now.

              i saw some credits on my account a year back or so from click fraud that they said they caught.

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                • Jace
                  FBOP Class Of 2013
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 35562
                  #5
                  Originally posted by A1R3K
                  at least they have mechanisms to detect their click fraud now.

                  i saw some credits on my account a year back or so from click fraud that they said they caught.
                  LOL, well, when it doesn't work correctly then it isn't a good thing

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                    • CaptainHowdy
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Dec 2004
                      • 94192
                      #6
                      Damm, that sucks ...

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                        • nikooo
                          Confirmed User
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 1199
                          #7
                          I hate webpage with google adsense on it.......

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                            • SmokeyTheBear
                              ►SouthOfHeaven
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 28609
                              #8
                              its a new trick . pump n dump ( or coincidence )
                              hatisblack at yahoo.com

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                                • Vick!
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Nov 2005
                                  • 6882
                                  #9
                                  May be some nasty user did that .. this is the only bad thing about adsense, instead of investigating and eliminating fraud they simply boot the publisher. This trends is little bid reduced due to YPN, i hope they will be better after MSN come into play.
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                                    • Antonio
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Oct 2001
                                      • 14136
                                      #10
                                      is there a good alternative to AdSense?

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                                        • wdsguy
                                          Ryde or Die
                                          • Dec 2002
                                          • 19568
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Antonio
                                          is there a good alternative to AdSense?
                                          YPN ........

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                                            • wdsguy
                                              Ryde or Die
                                              • Dec 2002
                                              • 19568
                                              #12
                                              Jace - thats pretty common and is every adsense publisher's nightmare.

                                              Theres a couple things you can do.

                                              If you setup channels for each of your sites - notify them as soon as you until a weird spike in ctr than the norm, they prefer knowing ahead of time.

                                              If you can provide server logs showing the same ip hitting your pages way more than normal that will help.

                                              You can also get free software like adlogger to protect yourself.

                                              Gluck.

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                                                • WiredGuy
                                                  Pounding Googlebot
                                                  • Aug 2002
                                                  • 34517
                                                  #13
                                                  Can you ask them for documentation supporting their claims? Try working with them to figure out the issue since you can't stop what you don't know right...
                                                  WG
                                                  I play with Google.

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                                                    • wdsguy
                                                      Ryde or Die
                                                      • Dec 2002
                                                      • 19568
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by WiredGuy
                                                      Can you ask them for documentation supporting their claims? Try working with them to figure out the issue since you can't stop what you don't know right...
                                                      WG
                                                      Adsense will never provide logs/ips of the invalid clicks, I wish they would though.

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