Hi guys, i clicked one of the ads on my site today... i emailed google stright away with this... I've just accidentally clicked one of the ads on my site! this is the first time i've done it, and know its one of the main rules in the terms. - Please can you remove this click instead of blocking my account. Sorry for the mistake. Regards. and i got this back: Thank you for your email. We appreciate your notifying us of the clicks that have been made on your Google ads. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, as it has the potential to inflate advertiser costs. For future reference, to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of invalid clicks, we suggest using the AdSense Preview Tool, available here: I'm reading about this "AdSense Preview Tool" right now! (i guess i should have known about it. Their reply has helped me to not do it again, but do you think they'll ban my account now or have i been given a second chance? Cheers.
Hmmm polite reply... We have to care while changing tabs in Firefox if there is top right 468*60 adblock.
Hey itsall 3, The same thing happened to me last week, and I received the same e-mail reply. I think you're fine since you did report the incident to them, and I'm assuming that it's a one time thing - Right? I've had my account for well over a year and this is the first time that this has happened so I'm not too worried.
Cheers guys. Im hoping they dont close my account. They did say "For future reference" -- which i hope is a good thing That AdSense Preview Tool doesnt hide the ads on your site, it just lets you see the advertisers site without clicking your ads - which is a good thing as some ads on my site look good. - but i need somthing to hide them from me. I dont want this happening again. cheers all.
If you are really that concerned try using the adblocker in firefox, or running the konquerer browser on Linux. That message just looks like a standard reply, i'm sure you'll be fine.
Why is there an Adsense Preview tool when the URL of the ad's site is always visible? Can't we just type the URL into a new window without clicking the ad? Or am I missing something.. Wouldn't be the first time....
You can type domain URL (www something com)in new window with no problems. Affcourse you can't copy real url of Ad, only "onmouse" url in status bar. And about clicking on your ads, it was same for me. Mistake click, mail to Google, replay, all fine
In my openion you have done just the right thing. Telling google directly will not get you banned infact they really like it. But make sure you don' t repeat the same mistake again. Learn from mistakes
I did the same thing a few weeks back. Mine was a pure accident I leant over to answer the phone,put my elbow on my mouse and guess where the pointer was.....yep right on an ad. I emailed them too and got the exact same email as you in reply. I know it's a bog standard reply sent to everyone but totally irrelevant to my mistake. Still..............it's always best to let them know.
opps. I accidentally did this too yesterday. A script would be good to disable the ads for webmasters. Just in case. lol
When I first joined up on Adsense a year ago I clicked on a few ads (5 or so) on my 1st site I put up to see where the ads went. I didn't know I shouldn't click on them, and I stoped right away. I did not e-mail google or anything. I also did not notice getting paid for them. I'm pretty sure they just invalidated my clicks. I did not receive any warning e-mails from google. A couple months back I accidently clicked 1 ad on one of my sites. Same as before. I didn't send an e-mail. I didn't get paid for the click. I did not get banned. I don't think you have to sweat an accidental misclick on one of your sites. It would be extreme to ban someone for 1 misclick every 3-4 months or so. Accidents happen. I'm pretty sure the bans you always hear people talking about are from them trying to commit click fraud on google, not simple accidents. They are likely clicking the ads many times and they say they "accidently clicked one ad".
I have done it, reported myself and got the same reply and my site is still showing google adverts (when they are online as they seem to be offline alot tonight)
I clicked on one of my own ads, and bought tickets from it. I wondered afterwards about that, how sad would it be to get banned after shelling out £90 on rugby tickets from a £0.08 click through LOL.
i have clicked on my own ads by accident many times, never had any problems. I dont understand how so many people get banned from adsense
Well they didnt decide to remove the click from my account, so i guess the advertiser paied for my mistake p.s -- who left me a bad reputation with the comment: "just don't click them anymore" ??? what the hecks the point of that? lol i thought the idea of this forum was to disuse things?
That was a little out of order getting a rep for that Still not to worry shit happens. The point is that if your getting 100,000 ad views or more a day, and you click on the odd advert that interests you (as I did with the tickets), then it is unlikely to get you banned, as there are so many other CT's your 1 or 2 is not going to make a difference and get you banned. Google are not dumb, they know that a publisher is not going to be interested in £0.08 for a click when they are getting £££'s per day.
that's a canned response. but as long as you notified them you've done the right thing. they appreciate some honesty and candor. they probably would've nulled that click even without you telling them.
I have run campaigns for people (adwords), and have regularly seen refunds to the account as a result of click fraud detection, without having said a word to google about it. the click fraud detection algo is quite good (unless the fraud is sophisticated, when you have to notify them and they look at it manually.