Making money with a website?

[FanIn80]

Are you clicking on your own links?

[nickerjones]

When I first signed up I clicked 3 links and ended buying things from 2 of them .... Of course I know now that your not supposed too but I was looking at my blog and thought "man thats a great deal on skates ( or whatever it was) . Clicked the link and bought the advertised deal.

They offer you a chance to appeal , which I am going too and I will tell them this. However I have the appeal sheet and they ask you a ton of questions...

You would think they would have disabled it 2 months ago since that is when i clicked them . Also there may have been times when i was reading my own blog and and scrolled down and accidently clicked a link but I didnt do it on purpose. HMM We will see where this goes I suppose.

[Azure]

It could be that they don't check your activity until you hit $100. So they checked now and saw that you had clicked on your own links.

I also think there is some kind of problem with signing up on forums and telling people to click your links. I'm not entirely sure about that. Something like Photon telling us here on CP to click the ads.

I don't really know though.

Just appeal to them and say that you saw a great deal on the ads you saw on your own site and actually bought something from them. Send them information if you must. They'll probably reverse their decision then.

[FanIn80]

Not trying to upset anyone... but you could have just gone to the site and got the same deal without clicking on the ads on your page, no? Or even done a separate Google search for that specific company's product and clicked the link that would have shown up there too.

Clicking on a few adds is somewhat defensible, but actually generating clickthroughs that culminated in sales is a completely different thing.

[nickerjones]

Well it wouldnt affect me one way or another if someone clicked the ads and then bought . SO i dont think that is the reason. They sent me an appeal page so I will just appeal and see what happens. However I dont think I ever told anyone on here to click my ads as that is illegal and outlined in the T.O.S.

I think maybe there were people from my office or school who might have clicked links and it would , in theory , show up as the same IP since we are on the same network right? Maybe that is what happened. Hmm I dunno

[Azure]

It might show up on the same subnet.

Wouldn't be exactly the same IP address though.

Your IP address could be 67.89.54.114.

Your neighbors IP address could be 67.89.54.115

I suppose Google would have some measures in place to deal with that considering some ISPs have no limit as to how many dynamic addresses you can pull from them. In other words it might have created a problem because you could technically be changing your IP address and then clicking on the links, changing it again, clicking on links, etc, etc.

[FanIn80]

Yeah, there is no problem with people clicking links from the same institution.

Also, there is a huge difference in clicking and clicking through to a final-goal page. Analytics tracks all that stuff through user-defined goals and funnels, etc.

So, if someone clicks on an add from your page, chances are it will take them to the start of a funnel on the advertiser's site. If you flow through that funnel and get to the goal-page (usually a "thank you for buying" page), then that set of actions rates your initial click higher than had you just abandoned the funnel altogether.

If the person who starts the goal-completion (by clicking on an ad from a page) turns out to be the guy who owns that page... Google no likey.

[nickerjones]

Well to be honest I am just going to play dumb ( since I really am in this area) and explain what happened. Ill tell them i bought a couple things via the links when I first signed up. Other than that I didnt click my own links unless it was an accident. I know a couple guys on my team clicked links for hockey camps cause they were interested in them but other than that ... I dont think anything else that I did on my end was detrimental to the integrity of the program i enrolled in.

We will just see I guess. I mean its just 100 bucks , well 70 bucks after taxes for me so its not a huge thing in the long run. I didnt really make the site(s) to make money in the 1st place it was just a bonus

[flamesfan6]

Originally Posted by Azure

It might show up on the same subnet.

Wouldn't be exactly the same IP address though.

Your IP address could be 67.89.54.114.

Your neighbors IP address could be 67.89.54.115

I suppose Google would have some measures in place to deal with that considering some ISPs have no limit as to how many dynamic addresses you can pull from them. In other words it might have created a problem because you could technically be changing your IP address and then clicking on the links, changing it again, clicking on links, etc, etc.

depending how the router is set up, and there is a good chance, the IP to outside the network would be the same for all computers in the office, the local network assigns the ips such as 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 ... 192.168.0.5 etc, but to outside the network, all those would have the same IP as something like: 64.123.67.87 ... not 64.123.67.87 / 88 / 89

[Azure]

^^^oh right. I'm talking more about his neighbors or something who live in a different house across the street.

But you're absolutely correct, chances are in an office environment the public IP address would be the same. Which would create a problem for sure.

[FanIn80]

Except it doesn't create a problem. If it did, then practically every ad relevant to a student would result in the advertising company's ads being pulled.

[Azure]

Wouldn't Google be looking at the IP address where the clicks came from, if it shows up as a University or something....maybe they would let it go.

I don't really know. But there has to be something in place.

[FanIn80]

There are a bunch of different things that can be gleemed from a single click on an ad. Google never publishes their algorithms, but IP addresses are only a single aspect.

They can tell if same-IP clicks are legit or not.

[Barnes]

A bunch of clicks from the same IP will get you banned pretty quick especially if your account is relatively new.

Don't count on being reinstated either. Shop around for a new ad network.

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[Azure]

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Or is your blogspot.com extension still pointed there too?

[GoFlamesGo]

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