I'd love to see Google not count any click for my account from a computer I logged in on. Technically it's easy to do so why not filter out the accidental clicks or let me click on those ads to visit without charging the Adwords advertiser or paying me? Why strike fear in a publisher with tales of accidental clicks and the lost fifteens of thousands of dollars? Why make it a hassle for me to visit one of my advertisers? The other clicks that cause me concern are multiple clicks from the same IP. I can look at Adsense tracker stats and see that a number of people hit there back button after leaving my site by way of Google ads and return only to visit another ad or four. I always assumed that since you don't open in a new window, traffic sent to Adsense is likely gone for good but quite a few visitors do return and click again. I wouldn't mind if they stopped counting after the first few clicks from one IP.
It's not very difficult! (In firefox) You right click on the ad, copy link location, paste it in to the location bar and then remove "http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?adurl="
Google can detect it of course... but if they said, "Okay, you are allowed to click on your own ads and we will filter it." Then the burden goes to them if someone clicks their ads all day and for whatever reason they couldn't be filtered.
Hi e10, not sure if this is it , but I think so. Absolutely, but I also agree with what Shawn is saying
I have many users that hit multiple ads within the site and hit the back key. I dont see a problem with it because all the ads are related to each other. If they dont find what they are looking for they will click the next ad in line. Chico
My feeling is that this is part of the anti fraud algo they are now using. There are many other factors, sure. It comes down to a point system of some sort...if you score a certain score the flag goes up.