I have a very big doubt. My blog is foccussed on students and generally students access net from their hostel campus where generally there is one net address but their PC ip address is different. so my doubt is if the students from particular college clcik even one ads and suppose 30 student click one ad then will i be banned? How google trace ip through nEt ip address or PC ip address?
They are doin it to protect everyone's interests.. especially the advertising...and there is no way google will ban you unless you are doing bad against the TOS
I wouldn't say it's the IP so much as the IP in combination with the MAC address. No MAC address is shared by more than one computer.
I said google protect advertisers that's why those illegal clicks are always not credited to concerned adsense publisher.
I also think Mac address would be the methods to determine the valid or invalid clicks.Atleast i hope this good for me..
IIRC from my networking class from 5 years ago the MAC address is sent along with the IP address in every packet that ever traverses over the net. I think that's how routers determine what packets go to what computer when they're routing stuff for the network. I could be wrong though, I'm fairly rusty on all of that stuff.
i wouldnt try and risk to do anything that would make you feel guilty, because chancees are that you could get banned
Most of time google is checking your IP address from where and how many clicks done in a particular day. be careful about this.. or do not login particular IP address.
If they'll notice too many clicks from same IP address your account will be flagged. You should install tracking code from clickaider.com . So you can track if you are getting illegal clicks or not.
U can scramble or get a new mac address, plus ip can be hidden and googles spy cookie can be blocked or annoymized
I'm pretty sure the MAC address is hidden to all but people on the local network. Packets are visible to a network monitoring software, but not to a website or javascript through a web browser.
You are wrong. The whole point of INTERnet technology is to bridge between networks, abstracting local topology. The format of the IP header is defined in RFC 791 and does not contain a field for MAC addresses (which btw. would be a total waste of bandwidth and in case of networking technology other then ethernet, e.g. SLIP or PPP completely pointless). The MAC address is only sent along with the IP address in the sense, that the TCP/IP packet is encapsulated in an ethernetframe till it passes a router, which will repackage it, before submitting it to another network segment. The way for Google to recognize users is (mainly) by the use of cookies. You collect tons of these, while surfing the web and viewing one AdSense banner is enough for getting "tagged". Log in to any Google service and the tag can even be personalized. So, if you don't like being tracked, you are well advised to throw cookies away when closing the browser. And before someone get's the smart idea to disable cookies and then happily click away: A lot of clicks in a short period of time from the same subnet and computers without a history is also suspicious behaviour.
i agree with blackonyx. i work in IT but i'm not an expert - just play one on tv. a web browser does not relay MAC addresses to a web host. the mac address is for the ISP for IP assignments and local networks. also agree that persistent cookies in combination with IP are probably what they use for tracking purposes.