Comments on: Google Adsense: clicks don’t make money

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:25:15 +0000

Make sure your Adsense does display paid ads.
If no ads are found by Google for your site, then they put in PLA (Public Service Announcements), which don’t cash in…
And indeed, this site would be hard to monetize through Adsense, as we’re all tech savvy users here

Try some affiliate marketing and bring value to your users by offering niche-related ads in your sidebar. Like for example, there are many webdevs out there that sometimes look for a quick WP solution, and they turn to templates

I wouldn’t worry that Google keeps the money for itself

By: gene

gene — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:14:49 +0000

my stats from awstats and webalizer have consistently shown over 5 times more traffic than google gives me credit for. this has been for a couple years.

By: TechHairBall.com

TechHairBall.com — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:14:29 +0000

I am seeing the same thing at my site. I have around 15000 page views per day and each page displaying 3 Adsense ads but on Google Adsense report they show somewhere around 3000 page impressions for all the ads. This does not make sense to me. The number of Adsense ads that I display daily are atleast 45000 and not 3000 as shown by google. I hope this issue is being worked on by Google.

By: TheExposer

TheExposer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:34:26 +0000

Ahh,
The great google discussion. How about this food for thought, sorry if someone else touched on this, but I must speak my mind.

First of all, they do charge the people who’s ads are being clicked on no matter what. They have checks and balances that give a little back, but it’s still not correct. I have posted many ads via google and the results have been less than satisfactory to say the least.

I kept a very close eye on the amount of clicks I was charged, and the amount of visitors actually registered on my web stats via cPanel(backend admin panel for website). They don’t care about any of that. Called, emailed, chatted online… nothing but pay your bill, too bad. Trying to say that the webhost stats are not correct. What do you do.

Thought I would shed a little light on the flip side of the wonderful AdSense/AdWords debacle we all find ourselves in.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:23:08 +0000

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add the following.

If your site is getting enough traffic, adsense is the worst choice. You could outright sell that space for $$$$ monthly / cpm rather than give it away to Google. I have written them numerous time sabout their aribrarily devaluing my ad clicks and i make nothing. while their adwords advertisers still have to pay. I also caught them in the act of charging me for 35% more clicks then they actually delivered, yet they arrogantly insist they are right and I’m an idiot. Screw google. They are not king anymore. I get more traffic from inbound links than Google anyway

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:02:10 +0000

Nope, they’re real. I’ve never even clicked on one myself. Average daily page views of the site are 11,000-16,000. Average unique daily users of 500-700. Average clicks of about 100 daily. Adsense type is Leaderboard 728X90.

The browsers of the site aren’t just passing through. They are shopping for something or discussing a topic. Usually when discussing a topic, adsense has only been good about providing relevant ad content to that topic.

The 8,000,000,000 pound gorilla always wins when pushing around the litle guy.

They may not hose everyone, but when you nickle and dime on a mass scale, profit margins go through the roof quickly.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:28:14 +0000

I have so far received payment for all clicks on a site of mine which has adsense on it.

I doubt Google is committing ‘fraud’ per se. They’re just getting over zealous with preventing fraud by their customers and you’ve been on the wrong end of the stick unfortunately.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:04:01 +0000

On one of my websites that have about 3.3 million pages, I receive about 100 actual adsense clicks per day as fact (no bots or click fraud). But, out of 14,000 impressions and 100 clicks, I have received $0 in payments. This is no good. I know as a fact that these are genuine. I had a few friends click an ad they saw that was not a psa from their own houses to simulate actual click throughs. Nothing. I checked back a few days later in Adsense and still nothing from them. This is genuine fraud by Google and this leads me to suspect why their reported profit margins have sky rocketed recently. I do not know as fact, but I suspect they are conducting mass fraud by not paying for the real estate they so desperately require.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:17:16 +0000

Hey Mysterious Matt – I’ve got a ton to learn about how Adsense works. I had heard that Google doesn’t actually pay for clicks on those links, but I could see that people were clicking on actual ads, and not that link unit (or whatever you want to call it) based on the size of the ad.

If you or anyone else has any advice on where to learn more about Adsense, I’d appreciate it. Google’s Adsense help isn’t so helpful, as far as I can see.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:51:45 +0000

If you’re talking about clicks on your links unit up in the header of the site, you need to read up on how they work a bit more.

Basically, Google’s link units don’t pay for clicks. They only pay if a user clicks on a Google ad that shows up on the subsequent page after they click on the link unit.