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Unfortunately, I still have no idea on the IP address who is doing it. They should. I'd ban them if they tell me.

First Million is the Hardest said:

OK, I've got 2 of the German IP addresses that are screwing with my ads from statcounter. How do I go about blocking them??

I'm not exactly sure, but would you mind sending them to me via email so that I can check them as well? I think you can block them right on StatCounter.

I've been seeing some strange behavior, as well. Oddly high CTRs coupled with very low CPCs, a balance that goes up and then drops back down within a day (as if Google is scrubbing clicks), etc. I've checked Adsense performance by country and I did see a spike in clicks from Germany on Monday, April 1st but not since then. In general, it seems like most of this is coming from the US.

So… I've installed Stat Counter. Anyone care to explain how to see who is clicking what? Maybe under "Exit Links"? Is the IP info attached when you do this? Sorry, but I just set it up and don't have any data to work with yet.

P.S. If you want to see country data in AdSense (as others have suggested), simply click Performance Reports at the top and then Countries in left sidebar. From there you can fine-tune the date range and look for any outliers in the list.

Well, here's an update on our end. The Big G has denied our appeal and our account is officially disabled – probably because I have no way of finding the IP address. So that kind of stinks, but I think we'll make it.

Post edited 8:15 am – April 5, 2013 by Club Thrifty

Yep, pretty much sucks. We also did nothing wrong, but what are you going to do. If you still want to use contextual ads, you can try Lijit.com or Chitika.

To those who have been banned, how many questionable clicks were you getting? I'm curious about both raw numbers (i.e., x per day) as well as CTR. How long was it going on? And did you self-report before getting banned?

michael @ financial ramblings said:

To those who have been banned, how many questionable clicks were you getting? I'm curious about both raw numbers (i.e., x per day) as well as CTR. How long was it going on? And did you self-report before getting banned?

Yes, we self reported the day before being banned. We were getting between 17-60 clicks a day and had only been receiving 3-5 per day on average. Our CTR went to between like 12-20%. It had only happened for about 4 days. When I finally checked and realized what was happening, I self-reported almost immediately.

Club Thrifty said:

michael @ financial ramblings said:

To those who have been banned, how many questionable clicks were you getting? I'm curious about both raw numbers (i.e., x per day) as well as CTR. How long was it going on? And did you self-report before getting banned?

Yes, we self reported the day before being banned. We were getting between 17-60 clicks a day and had only been receiving 3-5 per day on average. Our CTR went to between like 12-20%. It had only happened for about 4 days. When I finally checked and realized what was happening, I self-reported almost immediately.

This is almost my exact situation, I haven't been banned as of yet but I'm getting worried. My CTR is still pretty high over the past day or so, right around 10%. 

PK @ DQYDJ said:

If you haven't been banned yet and you're still looking for "who to block", go to your AdSense Settings, scroll down to "Access and authorization" and set the only domain allowed to show ads to some absurd domain that would never show your ads.

Any advice for the already banned? We appealed and were shot down.