Confession time - how many times has everyone clicked their own ads? I have done it four times, all accidental.
Three were at once - long story, and also a long time ago. If they were going to ban me, they would have by now
I'll tell you how I did the three. There is a feature in Firefox that if you click the middle mouse button, it will load the url that is in the clipboard text into a new tab. I had seen it in the options and thought hey that might be useful so I enabled it. Later on I was doing a bit of research about the advertisers on my site and I had copied the url of one of my ads in to the clipboard so I could extract the url and visit the site. I middle clicked on an empty space on my site so I could scroll down and weirdly, instead of scrolling, another tab opened in the background. I scratched my head, tried it again and it did it again. Then I tried it one final time before I realised what was happening and just about had a panic attack. Still I think four accidental clicks over several hundred thousand total on my account is a pretty good percentage. So, has no-one else here clicked on their own ads (or is no-one prepared to admit it? )
Never... Google gave out a code that you can put on the end of the script so if you click it by "accident" (lol) it won't be counted!
I'm not sure... my brother got it for me. I will ask him about it when hes back from his big honeymoon. Lol
Cheers, would appreciate it. I've seen how you can stop the ads working by altering the hosts file, but that disables all AdSense, which is a bit over the top.
Wouldn't advise fidling with the code to work at it! A friends partner did that and Google wasn't at tall happy and he got the dreaded message... you know what it said
I got kicked off of Adsense before for clicking my own ads. It was a very final very blunt response from Google. I'll never do it again.
At least you tell the truth Malc unlike the rest in the complaints forums.... Saying this kind of stuff: Some of the stuff they right if they get banned... and then two weeks later they register up again and get into Adsense and then they're like this: Haha i laugh at them fools!
I have clicked my ads before only because i was interested in the ads, but then I never clicked again during. I left for 2 months not doing anything with adsense and started last 2 months. Im now upto $50 but till now I have not recieved anything from google. I never clicked anything again and I dont plan to even the traffic im getting is legitimate and though its slow, im making progress. They sent me my pin recently is that a good sign that I wont be deprived of my check?
When I first started using Adsense..I clicked a couple of times, but only when the ad was actually of interest of me. To be honest, back then I had no idea you couldn't click your own ads. Google contacted me with a warning and obviously I stopped. I would think a click or two wouldn't get you banned since they can tell if this was an isolated incident or not.