Daily Clerks

It happened. Funny how it was about the time that I should have gotten a check from them, but it looks like google banned me from their adsense program. This blows. Granted it wasn’t making a whole lot of money, it was still something. Invalid clicks my ass. Prove it! Where’s the customer service love?

I think it wasn’t invalid clicks. It’s just their way of telling me that it costs more for them to have me on their program than if I were removed. It would actually make more sense for them to do this becuase then they can guarantee quality traffic to their advertisers, but still, wtf? Do no evil my arse! What it all boils down to is that they are still a company and they are looking out for number one…their investors. It’s like how Yahoo! has a requirement for traffic before being eligible for their program. This ensures that little sites that generate no clicks or very little clicks don’t eat up the bandwidth to serve up the ads, because, let’s face it, serving those ads add up. I dont know the exact cost of the bandwidth, but I’m sure there is a formula that says that if the user isn’t generating more clicks to at least cover the bandwidth to serve the ads, then cancel their account. Usually this gets determined when they have to cut checks, becuase then their accounting formula would come into play. They would then review your account and see what you cost them to run the ads on your site.

That totally makes sense. Now I see why I was kicked out. Click fraud. yeesh

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