Help!! Admob, self clicked to test(Unaware)
Hi all, i am in a bit of a trouble even before starting my journey with app building.
I made my first app here and added admob ad units on it both banner and interstitial.
The problem is arises, I did not know that we are not suppose to click on our own ads, i have tested my apps on couple of devices and clicked on many ads. And now i read several places that I am not suppose to do that. I logged on admob account so far no updates from them regarding it and my own clicks have added $5 in my account already.
Now i need advise, should i continue building my app? What do i do? Change accounts? Archive ad units and app in admob?
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But never, ever do this again, because you are screwing their advertisers, who are paying good money for their ads. If advertisers don't see a return on their spending, they won't advertise again. That's why Google does everything to protect them - after all, 98% of Google's income is from advertisers. So you can bet they won't think twice about doing whatever necessary to protect them.
I wish you luck and I hope you've learned something from this.
@ash19_87: I don't know what is a normal "invalid click" ratio. I asked my account manager and she said not to worry about that - their algorithms are supposedly very good and even a super high "invalid clicks" ratio won't be a problem, but only if they don't find evidence, that you were somehow involved in generating those clicks.
I guess there isn't a single factor determining what happens now. I would just wait it out and and see what happens. I hope you'll be fine and you can start making some nice money with Andromo.