how to avoid clicking on your ads

There is an easy way to avoid getting kicked from Adsense.
Use a few php lines to determine visitors IP address, if it's your own then set Adsense to show ads for another account (such as one of your friends' or a random id number). Thsi way even if you click on the ad unit while performing webmastering duties, your account will not register this click.

<?php
$userip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
if ($userip=="0.0.0.0") { ?>
//somebody else's or random Adsense code
<?php 
} else {
?>
//your Adsense code
<?php
}
?>

PHP:

Replace 0.0.0.0 with your own IP address.

 

How about just not clicking your own ads at all?

 

Because sometimes I've done it on accident too.

Good idea, thanks ^^;;

 

thanks, looks good

 

Just change the google_ad_client number to whatever else - somebody else's number or random, such as 000000000. You will still see the ads being displayed, just that your account won't get credited for that click.

 

Just send them a mail telling them what happened. It's not click fraud when you tell them to remove the click.

siraxi: You should use

if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '0.0.0.0')

PHP:

 

I'd rather just not have to worry about it.

 

You can always block ads using FF's Adblocker or disabling javascript from your browser.

 

it would be much better if you disable javascript.

 

Was there not an article on here about editing your host file to remap the adSense domain (not adSense.com the domain the ads use) to a local IP, thus blocking all ads on your PC?

TBH, it's not hard to avoid clicking your own ads.

 

Somehow people have a problem with this

Personally I never have clicked my own

 

What if it stops working and you click your ads without that knowledge, wouldn't they be regarded as click fraud? Is it a risk worth taking?

 

Why wouldn't it work? If you use that code, then you should be fine, unless your IP is rotated.

 

Siraxi is not saying: use this script and then click the ads.

No it's just another line of defense against clicking your ads. Don't click your ads, but if you accidently do it, there is a very good chance nothing will be wrong because of the script.

Don't tell me you will click an ad by accident at the very moment that this script won't be working. That would be EXTREME bad luck.

Plus. why wouldn't it work?

 

I have a dynamic IP at home and move a lot so such a solution won't be viable... on the other hand the javascript helps a lot. Thanks guys.
Ah, and yes it has happened to me too to click on my own ads... depends on where you place them Lucrative places tend to be sometimes dangerous for their masters too.

 

some laptops are automatically set to click when the cursor is just held over a link. i wasn't aware of this feature one time and it generated an invalid click.

 

thanks alot....

 

Actually that is a very good point there Mike and I didnt even consider it

 

good idea. there's been a couple of times I clicked on an ad on my site because I was genuinely interested in the ad. Fortunately, all I got was a warning from Google.