Should I contact Google?

[Ringr]

Here's what I found in one of my Google Adsense channels today:

Page impressions | Clicks | Page CTR | Page eCPM [?] | Earnings
4| 4 | 100.0% | $305.13 | $*.**


My CTR as you can see is 100%, should I contact them to be on the safe side since having a CTR of 100% might look fraudlike?
Or would it be a bad idea to let them know, for example: would it be basically like bringing negative attention onto myself?

Please advise me on what to do.

Thanks,
Andy

 

[downloadfreak]

If this has never happened, I would. I have had a similar experiance.
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I am zymic ^

 

[scrsteven]

I wouldn't say anything as long as it's legitimate. If they try to ban your account then you just ask them to check IP addys.

 

[eli03]

try to report it to google for your own good, might be a click fraud or someone is trying to sabotage your adsense account. =)

 

[Mark]

I'd say not to bother myself in this case ... unless you know something is up. It shouldn't be a big deal. People are known to visit that many other sponsored ads if it is relevant enough IMO ....

 

[Ringr]

Okay, this is kind of related.

A few minutes ago I accidently clicked an add on my site. Should I contact them, and what should I say?

Thanks!
Andy

Edit: I just contacted them saying I accidently clicked an ad, pasted the URL of my page I clicked it on, and the URL of the page the clicked ad brought me to.

I hope that was the right thing to do. :X

 

[plasmadrip]

I clicked my own ads once on accident a few months ago and emailed them immediately and I got a response back rather quickly. It was pretty much a canned email about how youre not supposed to click your own ads, but its turned out fine for me since. You should be fine.

 

[xclusive]

I would report it if nothing is up they will know but if there is a problem they will appretiate your honesty

 

[hanz]

contact them
site point.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2350469&postcount=28

 

[dc1pop]

Okay, this is kind of related.

A few minutes ago I accidently clicked an add on my site. Should I contact them, and what should I say?

Thanks!
Andy

Edit: I just contacted them saying I accidently clicked an ad, pasted the URL of my page I clicked it on, and the URL of the page the clicked ad brought me to.

I hope that was the right thing to do. :X

Yes thats the right thing todo. I have done this when developing a website They gave me a url now so i can preview then without actually clicking by mistake.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

andy,
Any updates on Google's response?
-Allan

 

[Ringr]

Oops, sorry for not posting in here for a while. Allan, they said pardoned me and were glad I contacted them about it. Here's the email they sent me:

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for your notifying us of the clicks that have been made on your
Google ads. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is
prohibited, as it has the potential to inflate advertiser costs. We
appreciate your efforts toward avoiding such clicks in the future.

For future reference, to check the destination of ads on your page without
the risk of invalid clicks, we suggest using the AdSense Preview Tool,
available here:

https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/topic.py?topic=160

In the future, to allow us to provide you with faster responses, please
write to us from the email address associated with your AdSense account.
If you'd like to update your account email address, please follow the
instructions at
http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=12745 .

For additional questions, we suggest you visit our AdSense Support site at
https://www.google.com/support/adsense . If you're unable to find an
answer to your question on our site, please feel free to reply to this
email.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

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Anyway, the reason why I bumped this thread was because I accidently clicked a "Browse the web faster. Get FireFox with the Google Toolbar." I obviously didn't download FireFox after I went there, I just hit my back button. Should I contact Google saying that I accidently clicked a 'download FireFox w/ Google Toolbar' button, or would it really not matter?

Thanks,
Andy

 

[dc1pop]

Anyway, the reason why I bumped this thread was because I accidently clicked a "Browse the web faster. Get FireFox with the Google Toolbar." I obviously didn't download FireFox after I went there, I just hit my back button. Should I contact Google saying that I accidently clicked a 'download FireFox w/ Google Toolbar' button, or would it really not matter?

If you dont downliad i cant see it mattering. Ive clicked mine and not downloaded to make sure i had impemented it correctly as you dont get the impression stats on it etc.

The user can click on it and not download the click is recorded but the download isnt.