Is Google Adsense rejecting clicks? Before I begin i will not provide information such as clicks, ctr and earning amounts as its against Google Adsense’s TOS.
They seek em here, they seek em there, they seek those clicks everwhere
Initially I had a single website, it did ok, but as it grew its earnings increased, but then it reached a point where no matter how many more pages were added the earnings remained constant, I changed ad positions, colors, sizes, types, even added section targeting, but give it a few days and the earnings returned to their usual amount.
You may say this is simply due to the website finding its default Adsense amount.
But, in the last 24 months I have built several more websites, and guess what the overall earnings of all the sites including the original still equates to the same amount regardless of the amount of clicks, one day one website will earn more, and the next day another may, but whatever happens the overall amount will be roughly the same, so is my Adsense account being penalized in some way for something?
If so I have no idea what as I have followed their conditions to the letter.
As a further test I removed all Adsense from one of my sites and then replaced all the Adsense ads with Amazon, I even created custom text based ads to resemble the original ones just to see if there would be a difference to the CTR, what a difference is all I can say, the Amazon clicks were around 2.5 x that of the Adsense ads.
This leads me to ponder several things,
- Maybe individuals are clicking on more than one ad and Google is disallowing some of the clicks which is ok, but how many ads does someone have to click on before this is invoked?
- Am I being penalized as the revenue always remains below a certain threshold regardless of whether earnings are higher in the morning or later in the day.
- Would using another publisher ID from a friend provide different earning?
Maybe I’m just imaging the whole thing, but after trying so much to increase earnings it’s getting very frustrating.
I have now broken one of my websites into 3 parts, each of which can support a separate advertising program, this way I can continue using Adsense, as well as Amazon, and another to compare them all against each other.
I’m curious as to whether anyone else is experiencing similar problems as I’m really dumfounded by the whole scenario.
Can this really be the case, I can see your point, but Google would also lose revenue over this, keep plugging away and testing I think/hope you’ll see revenues increasing, at least I hope so for all publishers sake.