I recently began receiving Content Network clicks from http://ads.cnn.com/yada-yada-yada-a-mil ... -different. When I clicked on any of the links they always were from a page that was nothing but 4 AdSense ads - never mine so I guess they rotate?
Yesterday morning the number began increasing exponentially (or so it seemed), but as the resulting AdSense income was about one third of the expense I banned "http://ads.cnn.com/" and thinking that was that, ran some errands.
Silly me. That did not even begin to be that. I came home to find hundreds - hundreds of clicks (at my expense, of course) from the url I had just banned!
I panicked, paused everything, and tried to solve things through Google's chat. Not helpful. The person on the other end - foreign name so I don't know if if I was dealing with male or female - ran reports that never got better than 2 days old. He/she kept insisting that Google's technology would catch any bogus clicks before I was charged. He/she just couldn't seem to understand that I had already been charged. I provided the number of impressions, number of clicks, which campaign, dollar damage, etc., but it was not on the report he/she pulled (cuz it ended 2 days earlier) so he/she never understood. He/she said I should contact the "Click Quality Team."
The problem with that (and notifying the AdSense side of things as well) is the messages bounce back into my email inbox because they want the url's of all the suspected offenders, which are all different, so long and so numerous that the character count Google allows is far exceeded.
So my campaigns are all paused and I am increasing Yahoo and MSN.
What a major hassle.
Anybody else ever had a mess like this?
Sandi