This Is How You Stop ANY Click Fraud & Not Get Banned!

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by integrity, Aug 7, 2007.

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    Hello!

    Since AdLogger has been gone for a while. We need to make sure we know what we need to do if any of us become victim of click fraud / click bombing.

    Most web hosts offer access logs. If this is offered to you, it is best that you hand it over to Google. This allows them to look for any suspicious activity on your site. Problems like this are very serious and giving it to them is saying that you would want to help them in any way you can in solving the problem.

    As usual, all the information you have received should be turned over to Google. This is showing Google that you too are fighting against click frauds and is in no way a part of it.

    Study your server logs and watch for any activity that seems suspicious. Report anything that you may find odd, if it is big or even small.

    You may want to consider disabling ads for your own IP address and local geographic area. This will certainly prevent accidents and will not make Google mistake another user as you. You can do through a htaccess file. This will avoid Google mistaking you or others in your BROAD area as clicking on your own ads and be kicked out because of it.

    Be truthful and confess up to Google about times when you might have clicked on your own ads (accidentally, if you purposely did it... tell them what you did (they will find out somehow)... and you are in a heap of doo doo :D). Be honest about anything that you may have done that is wrong. Confessing is way better than Google learning about it eventually. It would mean eventual termination and no getting back what you have worked so hard for.

    Do not tell your family or friends about Adsense on your website. Chances are they may start clicking on them to help you make money without you knowing it. They may be doing more harm to you than help by trying it in the first place.

    Google offers suggestion on how to avoid click fraud. Using “negative keywords” can be used to keep your Adsense showing on products and services that are in no way related to yours. Adding tracking URLs to your links so you can track the traffic coming from Google.

    Do not be caught in the Google click fraud. Be aware and be strict and even unforgiving at times. :)

    With Integrity,
    Ty Maier

     
    integrity, Aug 7, 2007 IP
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    neforum Active Member

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    How exactly do you do this please? I've heard of putting the adsense url in the hosts file, but not in htaccess.

    Thanks,
    Dave
     
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    search in mr google for free script invalid adsense click ,a lot out there ....
     
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    techpro Peon

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    I don't see how you can do this. The click activity all takes place on the client. When someone clicks on an ad, the javascript calls Google's server. Your own web server never knows about it.

    The adsense click monitoring tools all used javascript that runs in the user's browser, and logged clicks to a file on your server. (Some of them logged the clicks to someone else's server, so you could see the stats without having access to your server logs.) The javascript used a kludge to detect clicks, which really only worked properly in IE6 anyway (by detecting what was displayed in the status bar) and doesn't work in IE7 at all. Then Google changed the code so nothing is written to the status bar anyway. That's why the people who made the monitoring tools have given up. It's a lost cause. There isn't a solution. If there was, someone would have found it and written about it by now.
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Closed at request of OP who states, "please close my thread... i though i knew more than i did."
     
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