A click is not a click. A click is only a click if it is a "valid click". If we get 100 clicks today, we show you got 100 clicks. But that's an estimate. Tomorrow if we are only paid for 50, 95, or 0 that's what we finalize the numbers on. Some of the other companies analyze every click and come up with a formula that determines if they will be paid or not, if the click meets a certain threshold they will pay you for the click. If it doesn't they don't pay you, but they may or may not get paid for it.
Yahoo tells you on a domain level what they paid you for.
One Google feed tells you on a domain level what you were paid for, but you have this little thing called smart pricing that reams your really hard. You can tell who has this, because they can go to a 1 click lander page.
Then you have the other Google feed which can't go to a 1 click, they can only go to a 2 click. In that case you only get one number for all domains per day. So in this case that company has to guesstimate what you will be paid. They hire people like me who have statistics degree to come up with formulas on whether you should or should not pay for a click and how much you should pay.
So now that this little lesson is over. It wasn't me who decided that your 19 clicks were not valid, it was in this case Yahoo. The advertisers weren't charged and neither you nor me received any revenue.
And I won't teach you about clickbots, some things I keep to myself.
Donny
