To anyone else who hasn’t been kicked out yet and never wants to be: A) Shut up about how you make money when talking to friends and family. Let them privately think you run a bestiality porn site or something. It’s still better than them clicking on your ads B) Disable ads for your own ip and local geographic region, if you have access to that data and it won’t hurt your business. Ditto with your competition’s ip address. If you don’t know it, write him an email pretending to be a customer and look at his return headers. C) Get click-monitoring software and check it daily. Be vigilant in notifying Google about what YOU think is fraud, even if they don’t. Your notifications to them will come in especially handy should your account ever be flagged by them. You’ll be remembered as honest. D) Think of Google for the long term, not the short term. So you’re having a bad month and think clicking on an ad you might be interested in anyway doesn’t hurt anyone? You’re wrong. This month might be bad. Next month will be good. Google revenue is about long term averages. Is a few cents click worth the loss of thousands of dollars in the long term? Definitely not.
I suggest waiting for a while. In the begining I was getting 1- 2 clicks a day and about 5 cents/ click.. Right now, I get 14- 15 clicks and about 40 cents - 1$/ click..
so many people, even your closest friends, don't wanna see you pass them in life. thats why they click the ads
You can't control who can't click on your ad. it would be too late by the time you find out. It doesn't have to be a friend. There are millions of people who are just jerks.
Hey what about that click monitoring software and how to ban a particular area those things were not discussed ? what do you mean about ban ip - does that mean i should do that in my host or is they anything available in google
Try www.clickaider.com It's free and offers great reporting. It doesn't let you disable ads but I do not know of a free tool that will do this since the demise of Adlogger and I have not found a paid one that worked. Gal
You can do that If you are logged as admin in your website or in your username than the adsense will be with the "test" option (clicking on them won't effect your account at all). You can ask that in the PHP forum
Only problem is Google doesn't like such tools and using them may result in your account being banned.