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400% rise in clicks yesterday?!

Although no changes were made?

         

whitenoise

9:36 am on Sep 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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You can imagine my surprise when checking my stats for yesterday showed a increase of over 400% on the amount of page impressions and clicks. In fact yesterday was a record breaking day for earnings. It was only the second time in 3 years that earnings have topped the $100 a day mark.

This is totally out of character for normal stats. This time of year I am looking at around $15-$25 per day. Where did this mammoth $100+ day come from?! It has obviously come from somewhere since traffic has also increased 400% as well. While my first thought was wow!, my second thought was to click fraud. However since the traffic increase roughly matches the increase in earnings, I am thinking these are probably valid clicks.

I doubt very much this will continue for one more day, so I just thought I would share my excitement with you guys. If I was earning this amount every day it would be like winning millions. While this probably doesn't seem a lot to all the 'big players' in here, $50 a day would be a dream to me, where as $100 a day would be super fantastic! Anyway, back to reality!

trannack

10:15 am on Sep 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Might be worth letting Adsense know that you have noticed this spike, just in case there has been any click fraud going on. Better safe than sorry. If it isn't the case - well done you!

OptiRex

11:51 am on Sep 15, 2006 (gmt 0)



However since the traffic increase roughly matches the increase in earnings, I am thinking these are probably valid clicks.

Therefore it's most probably valid traffic, maybe you were mentioned or linked from somewhere, your logs should tell you that.

FWIW this week historically my metrics show that this is a good week for me and my earnings curve is exactly on track as forecast a couple of months ago.

Keep up the good work and you never know, you may go on earning USD 100 per day:-)

whitenoise

11:26 am on Sep 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the kind words trannack and OptiRex. Sadly, as suspected it was for one day only, since earnings are now back down again to the $10-$20 a day range. Still, this is money I wouldn't have had, so I am still grateful ;)

Khensu

11:42 am on Sep 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I would try to research whatever that was in your logs and see if I could duplicate the event. Sounds like someone wrote an article on you or something to that effect.

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