Adsense and being banned because of high CTR

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   gbrgnposted 9 years ago

   Just had a thought about Adsense and my hubpages.
   
   I have 8 published hubs and let's say I have a 12% CTR (click thru rate).
   
   That's 1 click out of 8 views. What if 4 visitors out of the 8 had clicked on an ad. That would have been 50% CTR!
   
   How likely would I be banned from the google adsense program? If this was a normal website with 8 pages and it received 10 to 40% CTR, and if I were google, I'd be very suspicious.
   
   This is a scary thought.

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   charlemontposted 9 years ago

   I guess everybody who's been with AdSense for a while can remember a CTR of 100% and even 400%. It happens sometimes, but not often. I believe Google estimates CTR on a monthly basis or so, but it's next to impossible to have a consistent CTR of even 20%. The average at Hubpages is about 2 to 5% in my experience, so there's nothing to worry about.

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   darksideposted 9 years ago

   Google have many means of determining click fraud. A high CTR alone would not be the sole factor.

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   anne.mossposted 9 years ago

   I doubt you could get consistently high CTR, higher than say 10%, from hub pages on a regular basis. If you do, then yes, it will probably trigger some checks and like darkside said, they could be investigating. If they find out it's something like you having a link somewhere asking your friends and family to visit and click the ads, they will ban you. They just need to suspect as much, that's all, looking at the click-through patterns.

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   mrizosposted 9 years ago

   Don't worry about that.  The Adsense Team knows how to recognize click fraud these days.  Legit CTR's can be "sky high" and nothing happens except a larger paycheck

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   knslmsposted 9 years ago

   I don't think that will matter, because google has many methods of determining click fraud with cookies, ip address, etc.

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