A more or less theoretical question on clicking one's own ads

You better spend time on writing some content and submitting it everywhere
and it will return you some value, more or less monetary

 

Google's trolls is why I don't post my site here.

 

I was wondering.

Not that I'm flaming anyone, but why do the good people of DP really try to help, and discourage people people who are clearly dishonest from doing dishonest things? They are dishonest for a reason, let them get banned.

Some people are too good for their own good.

IMHO: I've almost never heard anyone complain about getting banned for a REAL reason. So if you do something bad, odds are you aren't going to get banned. Just read past "I was banned" threads.

later,

tom

 

The temptation to click on one's own ads, especially for noobs, is incredible. Heck, even when you tell them not to do it, most of them will still do it anyway.

 

I've never clicked on my own ads. But today I had to right click on an ad to get the URL so I could ad it to my adfilter list. I was sooo nervous!

 

Are you using Firefox? In I.E. you can just place your mouse pointer over the ad and the URL will show up in your lower left window.

 

Yes, I am using FF. Thanks for the tip.

 

What would they be complaining about? "I clicked my own ads and got banned, google is evil". That kind of reasoning doesnt hold.

 

25 years ago, out of sheer curiosity and nothing else (being a curious kinda a gal), I bought and took home and read avidly the book "How to Commit the Perfect Murder ... In Theory".

Soon I found myself in the local cop shop, desk lamp glaring in my eyes, with bad cop tossing the thumbscrews from hand to hand and good cop pleading with me to fess all as he really couldn't hold bad cop back for much longer.

I really, really wish I'd never let curiosity get the better of me. I don't even _want_ to know how to click my own ads and get away with it! LOL

 

that is found out after 25 people asking what did they possible do, but the thread usually starts out:
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thread start from OP: I got banned, I don't know why, I didn't do anything wrong, how can I get back in.

middle: 25 people ask if OP did anything wrong, a few try and help. OP always replies, "I did nothing wrong, G is evil."

Near End: OP admits he/she was just experimenting with a click for click exchange with other webmasters, posted several click requests in forums, and when things were slow, the OP would click many of his ads.

End: Fryman says "I told you so", after posting a 'Not this shit again image'.

OP: says he'll go to YPN next.

three months later, another boob restarts the thread and says something stupid like: "I heard G was evil, my friend did nothing and he too was banned"
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Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else here?

 

I've blocked google ads in my browser to avoid invalid impressions and clicks. Here is what you need to do:

Uninstall Internet explorer to get rid of this buggy browser; install Firefox and then get the adblock extension from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=10

 

In addition to cookies IP/Hostname there are Geo-location of your IP address, Window Width, Window Height, Screen Resolution height and width, I won't go on as it would produce cheaters, but its much easier to earn bucket loads of money the right way then the wrong way.

 

Google will eat itself (http://www.gwei.org/index.php) has nice flowcharts for fraudsters wannabes that are lame/stupid/ignorant enough to not even be able to make those themselves.

Not that I encourage or endorse these practices, but the fact is, google isnt unbeatable. And the information is there if you want it.

 

Uhhh, thank you sooo much for this tip; you know, I was just attempting to open a thread with question if something like this is possible with Firefox. No wI know, lol ...


P.S. -- However, note that I do know that particular extension for quite some time, it's just that I didn't know that it's possible to block stuff in such manner, i.e. "whole" domain-names, not just separate URLs/graphics ...


tayiper

 

I almost had a seizure looking at that background.

 

It's probably a project done by the same people that made the fake Bhopal-scandal press release, the vote auction-campaign in 2002. The Yes Men. My heroes.

 

Well, since this thread is about such a controversal subject (obviously), let me end it by saying: thanks once more to all for your educative replies ...


P.S. -- But to address those folks that simply don't want to believe me: do you think that I am so stupid to cause my AdSense account termination (by clicking my own ads), or what ?? And even posting a thread about it on a public SEO and web-site promotion related forum ??


tayiper

 

I believe you tayiper.

 

Methinks the fellow doth protests too much. As I said, we've all thought about it at one point or another when we begin using Adsense (myself included). It's human nature to get something for nothing. If you say you've never thought about clicking on your own ads in the beginning, I call "Liar" on you.

 

I haven't said that; with all my posts where I mentioned that I am not planning to do so (click on my own ads), I simply meant that this thread's purpose wasn't to gather information in "that direction", and yes, that I am in fact not planning to do that ...


tayiper