Tutorial: Blocking your IP from seeing Adsense

Hello guys,

many of us are afraid of being Banned of adsense for accidently clicking on our own ads

i was reading this topic

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=67344

* had to put it in code tag cuz i'm not allowed to post live links yet

Code (markup):

and i thought that i might make something to block my IP from seeing Adsense on my own sites so i gurantee i won't EVER click on my own ads by mistake


it's just a small code and easy to add

let's start


1- If you have static IP

<?
$currentip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$myip = "127.0.0.1"; // replace 127.0.0.1 with your own IP

if($currentip == $myip)

{

// shows nothing if it's you seeing the site

}

else
{

?>

<!--

remove the <!-- and  put adsense code here 

-->

<?
}
?>

PHP:

2- If you have dynamic IP

well, that is hard to do but the only way i found was to block all IPS from your ISP and you might want to think about this one before doing it cuz it will make you lose all clicks that might be generated from all people that are having same ISP like yours

<?

$blockedAddr = "123.123.";  //ips starting with 123.123 will not see adsense

      //you can also do "123.123.123..*" to block anything that is 123.123.123.x from seeing adsense

      if (ereg($blockedAddr, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) 
	  
{

// shows nothing if the ip viewing the site is in the ip range that is defined before in $blockedAddr 

}

else

{

?>

<!--

remove the <!-- and  put adsense code here 

-->

<?
}
?>

PHP:

Notes:

1- Using this code is safe and has nothing to do with Adsense TOS cuz the adsense code itself isn't modified.
2- i'm php newbie so i'm sorry if there is anyting wrong ( although both codes are tested by mr and working !!!).
3- if anyone has better idea for code #2 please don't hesitate to share with us

 

good stuff, clean and simple. i have had similar scripts implemented on my sites since i started. i wrote the scripts myself, but they are basically the same. good post

 

There is alot easier ways actully

Copied from here.

 

Yep, that's my script. Surprisingly it's been almost bug-free. And it's kept me out of a lot of trouble.

 

I still like the server side solution better. Someone here was banned for checking his AdSense stats from work, and someone from his work has clicked on his ads. So that's not something you can prevent with a FireFox extension.

There's also asrep.com which is just a more detailed adsense report. but the full version also has things like "don't display ads to the same IP if they already clicked x times in the same day"

 

thanks for your support guys, i hope that helped

personally i implemended it on one of my sites which has adsense enabled and it is fine for me

 

Any other ideas for the same purpose on dynamic ips ?

 

I just use Adlogger. Simple and easy.

 

Best would be to add a entry in the host file for google. That way even if your IP changes you are safe.

 

sorry, i didn't get that

 

Use strpos() instead of eregi().

 

If Google really didn't want the possibility of fraudulent clicks as far as a publisher clicking his/her own ads, they would have implemented a tool so that you could not count your IP such as almost all site counters can do. It is so easy, why isn't it being done right from the AdSense user panel!?

 

actually Adsense once sent me an e-mail to fill a feedback form and in the comments field i asked for something like what you have just said

a few days after, they replied saying that my suggestion regarding this will be forwarded to the adsense techs and might be applied if possible


let's just pray