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statcounter and suspicious clicks

         

montyy

1:03 pm on Aug 24, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Hello,

my website is providing updated data that are useful to people arround world.
I also offer some additional service for anyone who registers account on my site.

Recently I started logging adsense clicks with StatCounter and linking IPs with my registred users (I have like 2500 registred users).
I found that some of my loyal users who visit the site almost daily for months also click on ads almost everytime they visit (usually 1x per day) It's like 5 people from that 2500 users.

Now I don't know if their intentions are to "support" my site or they are rather trying to cause damage.

My site used to have like 1% deduction from invalid activity. But as it grew larger number increased up to 9%.
Now those users are on dynamic IPs so disabling adsense for them is rather difficult without disabling it for whole ASN

I'm not sure if I should do something about it. It seems I don't have much options how to defend my site plus I think those users are only fraction of such activity since most of my clicks come from unregistered visitors anyway

btw, statcounter constantly records 2-5x more clicks than I get credited on adsense.

trebuchet

2:24 pm on Aug 24, 2016 (gmt 0)

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If they're clicking once or twice a day they're probably loyalty clickers. I have a few of those too. Or they're the type of users that click everything that blinks and flashes. Either way I wouldn't be overly worried about it. Google will sort it out.

btw, statcounter constantly records 2-5x more clicks than I get credited on adsense.

Same here. A measure of Google's fussiness about which clicks it pays on, I suspect.

netmeg

4:25 pm on Aug 24, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Also, you can't really rely on StatCounters reporting of AdSense clicks. I have noticed myself that it both over reports and under reports, big time.

montyy

5:18 pm on Aug 24, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Well I am glad I am not alone. Thanks guys for replies.

ember

2:13 am on Aug 25, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Thanks guys for replies


And gals.

netmeg

4:20 pm on Aug 25, 2016 (gmt 0)

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(ork ork)

piatkow

1:10 pm on Aug 28, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Also, you can't really rely on StatCounters reporting of AdSense clicks. I have noticed myself that it both over reports and under reports, big time.

I long since formed the opinion, rightly or wrongly, that it was only counting clicks on CPM ads.

trebuchet

1:14 pm on Aug 28, 2016 (gmt 0)

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You mean user clicks on CPM ads? Or just impressions?
Don't think it can be the latter, or my Statcounter reports would be through the roof.