suzjor:
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I'm baffled as to why 5 clicks and why $0.00
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(thinking) Perhaps Google's got in place software that noticed immediately that all five clicks came from one person, and zeroed 'em all out?
Reason it dawns on me is that my AdSense typically got zero-one click per day, up until one day when I got 32, then returned to zero-one again. That freaked me out, and then a week later, my AdSense account was yanked. (Got the boilerplate "click fraud" message.) Made me wonder whether someone up to no good went and clicked a buncha my ads. This happened in May, when a lotta people I know also got their AdSense accounts yanked, too. Like me, they also were making pitiful earnings (if "earnings" can be used in this context).
Next couple months, it continued this way. Nowadays, I don't know many people with AdSense accounts anymore. Like me, these people didn't look at their AdSense accounts very often, either, so most of 'em don't know whether they also had a "blip day" like I had. But since peoples' accounts have been getting pulled left and right, it's been making me wonder whetehr Google's got some new software, and they're watching like a hawk.
Hell; I heard about one fellow who got his AdSense account pulled the same month get got it.
I dunno; maybe I'm talking out my ass, but I've wondered about this ever since it happened. If the're able to stop click fraud as soon as it happens, that'd explain your $0.00.
Then again, I recently read a lenthy article arguing why click fraud is *good* for Google, and why they don't really give a rat's ass about it, so maybe I'm all wet. Maybe they just wanna weed out folks like me who're just accounting headaches and keep the people who bring in the big bux.