Date: Thurs, May 24 2007 2:51 pm From: Inside AdSense Team As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason. For this reason, we've received many emails from publishers letting us know that they've accidentally clicked on their own ads. If you're one of these publishers, we truly appreciate the efforts you've made to monitor your account and keep it in good standing. However, we do understand that an accidental click may occur from time to time, so there's no need to contact us each instance this occurs.Because we closely monitor all account activity using engineering systems and thorough human analysis, chances are we've already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them. While these clicks still show in your reports, we filter out their associated earnings so that advertisers aren't charged. However, please keep in mind that we don't ignore the clicks completely; if it appears to us that a publisher has been clicking on his own ads to inflate his earnings or an advertiser's costs, we may disable the account to protect our advertisers' interests.If you've been clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, we strongly recommend using the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks. You can also find more ways to view the URLs of your Google ads by visiting our Help Center.Discuss this postThis marks the last post of our 'Policy Thursdays' series - we hope you've found the information from the last few weeks useful. Thanks for following along and participating in the AdSense Help Forum discussions!Posted by Mike Deeringer - AdSense Publisher Support
short version we know you click on your ads. only stupid people admit it. if you want to click on an ad do it from someone elses computer. thanks the adsense team
That is a useful bit of information there.... thanks for sharing..... I have clicked ad by error before and let them know.
As long as you are not stupid enough to do it from the same IP and if you don't log into your account right after to see how much you got for the click Bruce
I think its already discussed on the same day here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=342546
It is interesting how everyone interprets it as if Google lets you guys click your ads from time to time. NO! There is no policy change or anything.It is just that they tell pulishers not to bug them each time they accidentally click on their ads. That's it. It always happens, and whether you let them know about that or not will noyt change anything. If you are gonna be banned, you will be banned IRRESPECTIVE OF whether you let them know about that. Or if you are gonna stay safe, that will again happen IRRESPECTIVE OF whether you let them know about what you did. This being said, there is no reason to contact them each time an accidental click or anything else happens. They will simply not care, and now, they are saying this in a clear way. NOTHING NEW.
if you are clicking your own ads you have way to much free time or don't care much about your adsense account status
I would still suggest if you are a new publisher to send them an email if you do accidentally click on your ads.
It's happened accidentally. I think that is why people are sending them e-mails. However, I think that Google understands an accident when it happens. At least, I hope they do. Everyone makes mistakes.
Yes, and even though Google say they know and can react accordingly but they can still ban if we accidentally click our own ads
"We are closely monitoring the situation." I want to puke every time I listen to this sentence. Yeah when I reported that somebody clickbombed on my site, they said that exact sentence before I got banned shortly after. "we closely monitor all account activity using engineering systems and thorough human analysis, chances are we've already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them." Engineering system? it's a fake. A 12-year-old kid can detect whether if it's sabotaging clickbomb intending to harm publishers. Google engineering system detects that and ban the innocent publishers. Human analysis? Yeah those pigheaded staff who punish honest publishers when their rivals click bomb on the ads. Their staff is given one task to do, find and ban publishers. They are not finding the reasons you're innocent. They're finding the fault that makes you guilty so that they can ban you.
even I received an email from them about this good to see that they have made some provision for accidental clicks
I can imagine the AdSense guys filtering out a million mails from most posters at digitalpoint saying that they've 'accidentally' clicked on their own ads. Lol, I'd hate to be the one filtering the mails. I'm sure they made a department to handle 'we've clicked on our own ads by mistake' emails
Thats a nice info.. So its not necessary to contact google for "accidental clicks" and no worry.. But yes, DONT CLICK INTENTIONALLY