I am new to admob ads for android and I know that the way it works if that you get revenue for every click. But I want to know what happens if a developers adds code that auto clicks an ad once in a while, in a production app? Something like mAdView.performClick(). Is that allowed and what happens if you do it?
Thanks
It will violate the AdMob policy:"Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods. Testing your own ads by clicking on them is not allowed."
From this link: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/2753860?hl=en
You account may be banned forever if they detect you do so.
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I am new to AdMob. recently 4 months ago I placed some ads on my 2 apps by using Admob but unfortunately, I got a message about the serving limits of ads that were placed by AdMob to my AdMob account 2 times this happen. I want to know how to prevent these limits is there any code that after 2 continuous clicks from the same user ads will disappear for some time for that particular user. so that it will be helpful to prevent the serving limits?
Hey the problem is source of traffic. Check your Analytics. Google AdMob works well with Organic traffic. Amy traffic apart from that can create a problem.
Ad serving limits: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9493252
But I Want to Know How We Prevent that like is there any code which helps me to prevent this type of problem...
for eg. if someone clicks on my ads intentionally then after two clicks on my ads in a day it automatically disables those ads for that particular user.
I have an app on both iOS and android platforms.
I use Ad Manager SDK for displaying ads. Everything is ok for android app. But there is something wrong for iOS app.
Google says "invalid traffic and click".
Interstitial ads' impressions and clicks are well. But banner type ads don't count clicks. They don't earn money.
I did everything what google documents say.
I tried the following methods:
I improved the viewability for ads. Every ad is requested on time.
I used Charles Session too. There is no duplicate or spam requests.
Then I created new adIDs. It works well just a couple of day. Then again same problem occurs.
Google says:
"Non-Human Traffic: Traffic or clicks generated via robots, spiders or crawlers are filtered by DFP
Automated ad clicking: The instances include: multiple clicks fired and clicks fired without user interactions are marked as malicious activity in the system"
in email.
They dont say anything else. My account is not blocked.
How can I avoid invalid traffic and bot clicks? Is there anything else I must do?
I use:
pod 'GoogleAds-IMA-iOS-SDK'
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK'
for ads.
1.On my new app (did not upload to play store yet) I see ads at the starting and then disappears all the ads. How can I figure out the problem?
2. In my existing app in play store adds doesn't work at night, mostly 11pm to morning. What can I do?
Both apps are on the same adsense account.
Look at your log. It will show ad request and response.
It sounds like there may be no ads available in your area. The logs will show that.
A way of mitigating is to use mediation so if no ad is available if asks the next ad network for an ad.
I accidentally clicked my ad in the emulator (not a test ad) and my app is linked with AdMob. Will anything be shut down for false reporting of ad impression and clicks? Like my application is not in google play just yet, I am still testing things out in the emulator. Is this something to really worry about or no not really?
According to this:
"Publishers may not click their own ads or use any means to inflate impressions and/or clicks artificially, including manual methods. Testing your own ads by clicking on them is not allowed.
Google treats invalid activity very seriously, analyzing all clicks and impressions to determine whether they fit a pattern of use that might artificially drive up an advertiser's costs or a publisher's earnings. If we determine that an AdMob account might pose a risk to our advertisers, we may disable that account to protect our advertisers' interests."
You don't have to worry if you only clicked once or twice. However, multiple clicks even when done unintentionally would be detected and treated as clicks generated with malicious or fraudulent intent aka click fraud which leads to disabling of associated accounts.
No safety threshold has been given so to be on a safe side just make sure you test via test ads. You only need one line of code to so :
AdRequest request = new AdRequest.Builder()
.addTestDevice(AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR) //Remove this line after testing
.build();
I've been searching through StackOverflow and I'm wondering about some things regarding AdMob. I'm done developing my app and have decided to make one free application and one non-free. The free one should have AdMob like a banner on it with ads of course.
Now I did, as everyone, the mistake with not putting target to sdk 14 or something and then I saw the banner space with a error message but now when I fixed it I did a fake android application on AdMob but nothing shows, even after I placed the ad - id number there.
I'm actually wondering, when does the ads show up on my application? Does a advertiser choose just my app to show ads on? Can't I have like always ads but I only get money when someone presses them?
Thanks in advance!
You'll know if you implemented the ads correctly by setting your test device and requesting a test ad. The test ad should come back every time, assuming your publisher id is valid.
It takes a few days and multiple requests for the new id to start delivering real impressions. The advertiser does not choose your app specifically; the AdMob network takes care of matching the advertiser's ad to the publisher's app.