Do you want to cheat google. It can trace you by your IP address and the cookies embedded in your system. Be careful
google has a lot of tools to track down cheaters.... cookies and ip adresses like other people said are some of them..
they also look at patterns, if some users never click adds, while one or 2 in particular click almost all the time, they will red flag an account, if only users from a particular region click on adds, they too might red flag your account... this post is speculation, so i am not sure, but from what i heard.
google doesn;t reveal their click fraud detection technology as some is 100% violation of privacy in my opinion. but its the IP address (your IP where signed up from, where you login to check stats, cookies, etc) and some that is not disclosed. but just be sure that if you click on your own ad, even if once, google WILL know
also, i mean lets face it, even if you have a dynamic ip, and you get some new for you ip (which probably used to belong to someone else before), that never before click on adds, but randomly through direct entrance comes into your websites and within seconds enters adds... it might yet again raise a red flag.
HI What about if you use proxies... would that work... I bet people do it like that.. Thanks Tom Dahne
With so many people getting banned, don't you think they have definite ways to catch you? What makes you think you can get away with it?
Even if your not using your own computer, or even house, you could get caught. What happens when google sees your first 10 clicks come from the same area code/zip code? Most likely they assume its you, at school or work, clicking your own ads. There are many many more ways besides just ip address and cookies. Google knows all, dont try to hide
They have a special software that tracks the IP addresses of publishers and that includes you. When they learn about your clicking on your won ads as those clicks will appear on your AdSense data sheet with them, then you';re a gonner.
There are various methods for Google to track: http://www.dagsensecodes.com/2006/11/ways-that-google-detects-invalid.html