I'm so scared that I might subconsciously click an ad just because I am some what trained to "surf" by clicking on the things that interest me, I'm hesitant about visiting my own site. If an ad pops ip on my site, and I'm interested in it. I have to catch myself before I click the ad out of sheer habit. It's like you have to somehow desensetise yourself in regards to ads. Which can't be good in the long run because as you surf other sites you end up ignoring the ads. Resulting in Revenue loss for all.
Yes, most publishers need to take care when checking their own site as it can easily result in mistakes. However, in time you will get used to it.
If you are really concerned you could do some server side coding (PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, etc) to not serve ads to your IP. Otherwise, you will become very aware of Google Ads and you will always double check before you click.
If your using a language other than simple HTML then put some code around it to prevent you from seeing them. Something like if($ip == "your ip") { echo "ads hidden"; } else { echo "google ad code"; } you could even limit it further if you have a login system on there, you could access that to prevent you from seeing them when you are logged in.
then use the username style I do it on some of my sites. I also have set a cookie formyself that lasts for a year at a time you could set it to even more if you wanted. I just access that cookie because I am on dial up at home so my IP is always different. if($_COOKIE["dansgoogcookie"]) { echo "ads go here"; } else { echo "adsense code"; } you of course need to set that cookie and I do that by lusing my login details to determine if I am logged in and if so set the cookie
I think most people are really well trained not to click on their own ads without needing to use an ad blocker. Anyway, since you are an avid cliker, I think you should block them.
there was a reg file that google published, i am looking for its address. When you download it and apply it to your registry by double clicking, i guess it doesnt count the clicks that you did to your ads. So it will prevent fraud clicks. Let me find its address...
i found this on the other thread. this is a nice way to pervent ads showing on your pc Find your Hosts file. On windows XP it's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc Open it using notepad Under 127.0.0.1 localhost Add 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com Save Open a new browser and all Google adds will not be displayed. When you are done with your site add #<space><space> # 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com Save Open a new browser and all Google adds will be displayed again. == not my work i have just pasted it from another thread here. cheers money_train
This was bad advise before the rise of AJAX. You loose so much functionality (form validation, browser checking/optimization, GMail, etc) and there are better alternatives.
Blocking all ads - is not the answer. As when you surf to other sites, you may be looking for something and it could show in another ad on another site. You don't want to banish yourself from all google ads. You would be inadvertently cutting someone else's revenue upon a visit to their site. There should be a way to block only your personal sites. So that even if you did mistakenly click an ad... it wouldn't register. Or click the ad purposely, it still wouldn't register.
Just remember that this will block all google ads serving up for domain pagead2.googlesyndication.com. so if you want to visit sites with google ads you will have to comment out the mapping, as described above. Plus sometimes you will also have to flush out your computers DNS cache to take the changes to take effect. On a command prompt type: ipconfig /flushdns
I never check my sites from laptop becouse touchpad click sometime when I just moving mouse up or down.