I have a website that does alright on search traffic, around 300 UV a day. I've been displaying adsense ads on it for over a year earning very little with a real low CTR.

I knew what was wrong with it and why the success was so low, so decided to put the time in to earn adsense money.

I started with tweaking ad placement with suggestions from G, my ads were all in the wrong places.

I started reading about which ad blocks work best and the best ways to make them blend in with the site, all good with G's TOS.

NOW, my CTR is at around 3%, up from less than 1% and I was doing good with it.

Now G won't pay me for all the clicks, I went a day once where I didn't get paid for ANY of the clicks. The report shows that I got clicks, but $0.

I read up on it in the forums and what-not, G says that sometimes some clicks aren't valid, and the have the algorithms to prove it, and that we get paid fairly and squarely.

UG! I thought G would be the last organization to start shaving clicks off our asses.

How's the other guys like adbright and all, they alright?

So Google didn't pay a cent for any of your clicks? How many clicks did you have total that were not paid?

Also depending on what niche your site is in, could be playing it's part.

http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2...e-payment-war/

EBay and its online payment unit, PayPal, sued Google and two executives for stealing trade secrets

I really wish people would wake up and realize google is not some pristine and innocent
company of angels and saints.
No company has ever reached such incredible success without fucking someone somewhere.

Now back on the adsense topic:
Yeah they will conjure up some reason NOT to pay.
So my advice is to learn how to play hardball and exploit them with a blackhat sucker punch.

@jlei523
Yeah, one day I had 11 clicks and a CTR of a little above 2% - $0

@PinkBitz
The niche is good and I check the ads regularly to see what's displaying. In my adsense account I checked were it would display ads from any advertiser and all that are displayed are relevant to my site.

To try to get more money from each click, I did some keyword research and found some good keywords that were relevant to my site and content and advertisers were paying as much as $20 a click. I nailed the keywords in search, not sure if some clicks came from my new pages but they are getting several daily hits.

@Laser

I'm already autoblogging and backlinking like crazy, what would you suggest for some good BH sucker punch stuff?

Also, my webmastertools tells me all my content is indexable and good to go...so I don't think the autoblog is F'ing me over.

What about the other PPC guys, are they as bad as G, better, on par? I've got the content and high CTR...just hate getting screwed.

I guess I won't mind a little screwing over because I do blackhat to be on top, but damn that's a lot of work too!!

EDIT - by high CTR I mean better than it was before...

Are you sure that you have ONLY adsense adds in your websites? Are you sure your TOS are perfect and are you sure your clicks which you have got are from different /various IP's?
Adsense always reserve theyr rights to not pay if something is wrong. Do not worry about it - just deal with it!

Originally Posted by nycdude

I have a website that does alright on search traffic, around 300 UV a day. I've been displaying adsense ads on it for over a year earning very little with a real low CTR.

I knew what was wrong with it and why the success was so low, so decided to put the time in to earn adsense money.

I started with tweaking ad placement with suggestions from G, my ads were all in the wrong places.

I started reading about which ad blocks work best and the best ways to make them blend in with the site, all good with G's TOS.

NOW, my CTR is at around 3%, up from less than 1% and I was doing good with it.

Now G won't pay me for all the clicks, I went a day once where I didn't get paid for ANY of the clicks. The report shows that I got clicks, but $0.

I read up on it in the forums and what-not, G says that sometimes some clicks aren't valid, and the have the algorithms to prove it, and that we get paid fairly and squarely.

UG! I thought G would be the last organization to start shaving clicks off our asses.

How's the other guys like adbright and all, they alright?

I had an adsense account banned a year ago. On the sites associated wiith that account I tested them all, adbrite, chikita etc. With adsense the sites earned around $100 a week each. I was lucky to get $3 a week with the other networks. I ended up selling those sites off. Since then I have new adsense accounts but dont rely on them for any sort of income. Its just extra now.