I am increasingly aware of what I am attracting into my everday reality these days and even though I am finding it easy to take responsibility for that and not go into "victim" mode so often I still find on occasion a situation that really gets to me.

First of all, a positive note:
I only put Adsense on my PowerBook Studio site about a week ago. The site has been due for a redesign for ages, so I hadn’t made any effort to start monetizing it because it didn’t really have any helpgful information, just more of a showcase for some of my work. Anyway I added some Google Adsense ads at the top of the page and that is it. Basically no more than two "clickable" ads on the entire site and what I noticed was that the click-through ratio was pretty high. About 30%. There are not that many visitors to PowerBook Studio just yet, but it seems that all those that are visiting are very much into the subject matter. This is a greeat feeling because the plans I have for this site give me the belief that it will be a great monetized information site, providing a valuable service to readers and, suprise surprise is a subject I am most passionate about. Go figure! More evidence that following your true passion will bring you the rewards. That’s the good news…

The not so good bit.
The encouraging number of clicks on my Google ads came from looking at my stats on Mybloglog where I have received about 20 clicks in the last week (not bad for a very low traffic site!), but my Google Adsense reports show nothing. I have had a number of email discussions on this subject with Google support and basically the response is " Nothing we can do, we do not endorse 3rd party tracking systems, possible fraudulent clicks (HOW?)". It is really pushing my buttons because no matter how many times I complain and ask them why they cannot investigate further, they come back with the same response. I feel like I am arguing with God. There is seemingly no way to move that stubborn mule way of thinking.

Now, although find it difficult to accept I realize that I have attracted this annoyance into my reality. I can’t figure out how, but I suppose that is not the point. If I can let this go then I have to trust that what I am due, if I am due anything will come to me, whether it is from Google or in some other form. However I do think this raises some practical issue for all those who have the same problem, but maybe have hundreds or thousands of clicks at stake.

1. Are Google making up their stats as they see fit and if so, how long have they been making up the rules?
2. Are Google actually receiveing any revenue from those clicks, which they tell me are not clicks at all?
3. How long will it be before nobody trusts Google’s handling of Adsense, which doesn’t actually require them to provide any evidence of what is real and what is not?
4. Has anybody even thought about question 3 before?

OK ranting over, now back to work creating the life of my dreams!