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Clicking Your Own Ads

Discussion in 'Guidelines / Compliance' started by detonate, Aug 6, 2006.

  1. #1
    Confession time - how many times has everyone clicked their own ads?

    I have done it four times, all accidental.
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  2. hackoid

    hackoid Peon

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    #2
    Well..Shouldn't be problem if u have dynamic IP.
     
    hackoid, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  3. detonate

    detonate Peon

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    #3
    Three were at once - long story, and also a long time ago. If they were going to ban me, they would have by now :)
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
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    qwestcommunications Notable Member

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    #4
    None. Its not that difficult not to click on one's own ads.
     
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  5. detonate

    detonate Peon

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    #5
    I'll tell you how I did the three. There is a feature in Firefox that if you click the middle mouse button, it will load the url that is in the clipboard text into a new tab. I had seen it in the options and thought hey that might be useful so I enabled it.

    Later on I was doing a bit of research about the advertisers on my site and I had copied the url of one of my ads in to the clipboard so I could extract the url and visit the site. I middle clicked on an empty space on my site so I could scroll down and weirdly, instead of scrolling, another tab opened in the background. I scratched my head, tried it again and it did it again. Then I tried it one final time before I realised what was happening and just about had a panic attack.

    Still I think four accidental clicks over several hundred thousand total on my account is a pretty good percentage.

    So, has no-one else here clicked on their own ads (or is no-one prepared to admit it? :p)
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  6. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Never... Google gave out a code that you can put on the end of the script so if you click it by "accident" (lol) it won't be counted!
     
    Gareth_Boyd, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  7. detonate

    detonate Peon

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    #7
    I didn't know that. That would be useful - where can I find that?
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  8. timw

    timw Peon

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    #8
    Yeh please, share with us :)
     
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  9. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    #9
    I'm not sure... my brother got it for me. I will ask him about it when hes back from his big honeymoon. Lol
     
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  10. detonate

    detonate Peon

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    #10
    Cheers, would appreciate it. I've seen how you can stop the ads working by altering the hosts file, but that disables all AdSense, which is a bit over the top.
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  11. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Wouldn't advise fidling with the code to work at it! A friends partner did that and Google wasn't at tall happy and he got the dreaded message... you know what it said ;)
     
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  12. malc

    malc Peon

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    #12
    I got kicked off of Adsense before for clicking my own ads.
    It was a very final very blunt response from Google.
    I'll never do it again. :(
     
    malc, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  13. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    #13
    At least you tell the truth Malc unlike the rest in the complaints forums.... Saying this kind of stuff:

    Some of the stuff they right if they get banned... and then two weeks later they register up again and get into Adsense and then they're like this:

    Haha i laugh at them fools! :D
     
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  14. detonate

    detonate Peon

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    #14
    Just curious, how many did you click before they caught up with you?
     
    detonate, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  15. Gareth_Boyd

    Gareth_Boyd Well-Known Member

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    #15
    Probably a thousand clicks lol, only joking. How many?
     
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  16. amedno1

    amedno1 Active Member

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    #16
    I have clicked my ads before only because i was interested in the ads, but then I never clicked again during. I left for 2 months not doing anything with adsense and started last 2 months. Im now upto $50 but till now I have not recieved anything from google. I never clicked anything again and I dont plan to even the traffic im getting is legitimate and though its slow, im making progress. They sent me my pin recently is that a good sign that I wont be deprived of my check?
     
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  17. hackoid

    hackoid Peon

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    #17
    I think your making too much of a small accident.Shouldn't be a problem,m8 :D

    But Avoid it in future :)
     
    hackoid, Aug 6, 2006 IP
  18. amedno1

    amedno1 Active Member

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    #18
    ok thanks for letting me know
     
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  19. chachacallis

    chachacallis Well-Known Member

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    #19
    you will just have to wait and see you still have another $50 to make.
     
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    esiason14 Peon

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    #20
    When I first started using Adsense..I clicked a couple of times, but only when the ad was actually of interest of me. To be honest, back then I had no idea you couldn't click your own ads. Google contacted me with a warning and obviously I stopped. I would think a click or two wouldn't get you banned since they can tell if this was an isolated incident or not.
     
    esiason14, Aug 6, 2006 IP