I ve had a happy marriage with AdMob for more than 2 years, have been invited and attended “premium” developer meetings and congresses.
But today, as you know payment date, they ve sent me only 150 dollars instead of almost 3000-4000 dollars of my earnings have been considered as invalid clicks.
And these invalid clicks are considered only 1 day of September earnings. I mean, payment report says that, there has been invalid clicks for only 1 day which costs 3000 dollars.
I ve never done and never will do such a thing. My banners and interstitials are %99.9 appropriate to TOS and other stuff.
Now i have contacted with support but honestly dont think that something will come up. Its obvious something is wrong.
Is there anyone faced such a situation ?
And moreover, is there any advertising network that you can recommend to me ?
That is why I use only banners from admob so very less money is on risk. for interstitials I used StartApp. However there ecpm is going down. No time to try other networks now.
Admob is performing for me quite ok. Don’t see problems with invalid clicks. In the past I had deducted some $$ from wrong clicks - but those were some kind 20$.
Payment just initiated for me for this month, for the expected amount. You should at the very least contact them directly and maybe also on their Google+ page and Google Product forum.
But i am using timer mode, which is showing every 100 seconds not to bother users so often. Therefore, i couldnt understand at what party i am causing invalid clicks and lost almost all of my earnings…
I am not stimulating users to click ads or my interstitials are not between playing a tapping game. My app is not even a game. Just gallery app.
@fanarin, I would actually say, that an ad in every 100 seconds is already too much, but it is just my opinion. (160-180 would be nice).
sorry to write it here as well, I wrote to you in inbox, why your code caused invalid clicks. You just had a bug in your code, which simulated infinite ads