Yakezie.com - Topic: Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 My Personal Finance Journey on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92166 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92166 I self reported myself over the weekend, but never heard back from them nor did they seem to fix anything. 

I installed statcounter, but it only showed 2-3 click exit paths on days when I would get 11 clicks. Because of that, I wasn't able to pinpoint a specific IP address. 

In the end, I took the advice that DQYDJ mentioned in the clickbombing thread and went in to my Adsense account settings to specify to only display my adsense ads on my fiance's site (academicwino.com, which my code is not on) for the time being. That way, they don't credit my account with any revenue. 

I figure I will leave it like that until things die down from this clickbomb empidemic in a couple weeks. 

]]> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:31:06 +0000 Club Thrifty on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92164 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92164 MoneyBeagle said:

I reported myself yesterday and they took away the revenue from the clicks for the last four days, so maybe they are responding in some fashion?

 

Annoying that people out there have nothing better to do with their time.

Unfortunately AFTER I self reported, they still banned us from Adsense. I appealed and they denied it. Anybody have advice on how to get back after an appeal denial?

]]> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:57:50 +0000 Edward Antrobus on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92153 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92153 Fortunately, I seem to be avoiding the clickbombing so far. Clicks are on the rise for me, but for me that means I'm getting 2 every 3 days!

]]> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:56:42 +0000 MoneyBeagle on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92152 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92152 I reported myself yesterday and they took away the revenue from the clicks for the last four days, so maybe they are responding in some fashion?

 

Annoying that people out there have nothing better to do with their time.

]]> Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:55:12 +0000 First Million is the Hardest on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92137 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92137 michael @ financial ramblings said:

I'm curious... Are the clicks targeting a specific ad unit? Like the first one to load on the page?

They've been hitting all of my ads pretty equally. 

]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:33:52 +0000 michael @ financial ramblings on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92134 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92134 I'm curious... Are the clicks targeting a specific ad unit? Like the first one to load on the page?

]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:06:39 +0000 sooverthis on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92133 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92133 Yep, took my ads down this afternoon as well. I looked back at the past week and saw a day with over 20 clicks - there is absolutely NO WAY that's really happening. I feel like this is definitely a targeted attack on PF blogs and I wish there was a way to contact someone inside the Google machine to have them look into it.

]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:30:44 +0000 First Million is the Hardest on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92124 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92124 I'm in the same boat & agree 100%. Yesterday adsense shows I received 17 clicks, and I can only find 2 or 3 in StatCounter.  As I mentioned in the other thread, I self reported the suspicious activity to google last week. For now I've decided to just take down my Adsense ads and see what comes of all this. A lot of bloggers seem to be affected, I can't imagine google won't notice that it not our fault. 

]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:08:43 +0000 The Frugal Path on Google needs to change Adsense policy https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92111 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/google-needs-to-change-adsense-policy/#p92111 I've been reading the issues with click bombing and am becoming concerned about the possibility that I may soon fall victim to Google's lame policy of banning good bloggers.

I took Andrea's advice and used the stat counter thing, but the numbers that are shown for ad sense links are far lower than what Google is displaying.

Has anyone else experienced this with stat counter?

I think Google needs to get it's act together because they'll be losing revenue by banning bloggers that follow the rules. If they have so much information on everyone why can't they ban IPs of spammers from Adsense. It should be easy for them to do.

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