i just got an iPhone a few days ago and visited my sites to check out the look on the phone. while pinching and zooming I clicked an ad on accident. I was logged on to my house WLAN which means I had same ip as the house that I logged into adsense. now its just an accidental click and I contacted them but as I switch from netwrk to network wouldn't that be suspicious? what about the ones who have been waiting for this for a while to click their ownads? how does this work? free money or google bust?
No worries, google has said if you click on one of your own ads they'll understand and it'll be deemed invalid, you don't even have to tell google anymore.
how wilthey tell if I'm on another network? I guess my worry is if it happens again on another network? wouldn't they treat it as a fraud case?
No need to worry about that, Just don't click on it again. Like Kngavl said one click is not a problem and you won't earn from your own click. You better tell your friends who using same ip that you use to login to your adsense account not to click your ads, or you will be banned very soon.
You don't have to worry about reporting the occasional accidental click. They had a blog post about this:
Honestly, I don't know why you're getting all-worked up over one click... it really doesn't matter. Just leave it be, and everything will be fine. If Google contacts you or takes action for some unknown reason, just tell them what happened.
for one accidentally click you don't have to contact them! "Thanks for letting us know about the clicks on your ads. We appreciate your honesty and your efforts to keep your account in good standing. Although publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason, we do understand that accidental clicks may occur, so we don't require that you contact us every time you click on your ads."
I think it is easier to distinguish between accidental clicks and click-fraud. Click frauding makes u greedy and click more and more..
i clicked on my ads by mistake from my College's Library and also logged in to adsense account from the same computer?? will they ban me??:s