Adsense Question

[slaughteredlamb]

Nothing major but I've been noticing something different about my Adsense account over the past couple of months.

Normally I don't generate many clicks at all but a few months ago I changed the layout of my site and the position of my Google Ads and this has actually increased my click rate. I'm still earning just pennies from it, it's gone for a few cents a months to a few dollars by changing the layout, but that's fine.

Anyway since the change I've noticed that quite often - most days - when I log into my account if it says 0 clicks it will usually say that my earnings are $0.01. If I haven't had any clicks for a couple days than getting a summary of the last 7 days may still show 0 clicks but earning are then something like $0.04.

Not that I'm complaining but how am I 'earning' anything if the clicks are 0, I never used to get this?

[sarahA]

It could be adverts paying for impressions and not necessarily just clicks. I've never seen the option in AdWords but I've not paid that much attention to it!