Open Source AdSense Tracker

argh it's PHP. mine's pure static pages.

 

This is pretty good stuff. I've already set up my site www.scienceprog.com and waiting for results. I like features where you can disable ads for your IP and click fraud protection. Email function is cool too. Well done keep it going.

 

Cool. Just installed it - waiting now for some data to appear!

I wonder if it's possible to pull all the data from each of my AdSense sites and collate it somehow by using the MSSQL databases......

 

Working like a baby. Just... in my settings I set up up to 3 clicks for one IP due 24 hour. But I got 4 clicks in 6 minutes from same IP. Is there a bug?

 

how much clicks from one IP per 24h should we put in order to avoid click fraud while allowing legitimate users to browse freely? 7 is right?

 

hard to say. I set 3 clicks, but got 4 instead and I guess smart prising worked and I've got few cents for all 4. So now I set 2 - I think it should be enough to lower risks. Later I 'll see. maybe there will be more posts about this. Any opinions?

 

perhaps there are 50 people behind that single i.p., and a couple of 'em might be talking to each other about your site... and they are on different computers.

the clicks could indeed be legit.

 

This is grrrreeeaatt!!! Now I get all the information I've ever needed. Because my site is dynamic there is categories+suburbs+(categories*suburbs)+infopage times different pages and now I finally can get some good information about from which pages I get clicks. Now I know where I have to put all my efforts.

Thanks Trevor, you really made my day

 

How is this tool working out for all of you?

I'm thinking of trying it out.

 

Installed 'D' version today, workin great!

I think he is working on other new features as well, highly recommended!

 

I am using it maybe for two weeks. Tool is great...
I have almost all information about clicks I needed...

 

Any known bugs? How streamlined is this? This sounds really good.

 

I'm no php expert, but it installed easily with no problems.

It is still beta- I installed it about 4 days ago and just noticed a new version has released.

I do recommend you install it, beta and all!

 

I installed and the ad blocking won't work for my click fraud attack since it is simply based on a cookie!

It can avoid people to click more than X times on ads, at the condition that they accept cookies from any sites and don't delete their cookies. At the moment it's not enough for a real protection against what I am experiencing.

But the tracking feature work good and it's funny to see details about what ad has been click, on what page, after many months of adsense only stats!

 

What kind of click fraud are you experiencing? ? I plan to launch a site soon and I'm afraid that people go to my site just to click on my ads to ruin me

Thanks

 

Don't worry I used adsense for a couple of years and only 2 weeks ago one of my site got attacked by a click fraud software so much (300 clicks in a few hours) that I removed the ads until now. Yesterday the bugger found another of my site and started doing that too, so I installed adlogger but then realised the cookie protection will not work against any click software who can't be bothered about cookies!
But thanksfully google this time doesn't seem to account for the fraud click since the earnings on the new attacked site are "average" despite the high amount of click and over 100% CTR!
I emailed google again about the new attack, in two weeks I exchanged more emails than in previous 2 years!

 

i'll give it a try on the other hands, we'll see if i can combine it with my latest project ..

 

You can still use it. All that's required is putting a little javascript at the bottom of you html pages.
The PHP is only necessary if you want to use the built-in click fraud prevention.


Also in regards to the concerns about the cookie not working:
I'm working on the next feature which will look right at the IP to see if they've already clicked a certain number of ads. This way, people won't be able to get around it by clearing their cookies.

Thanks for the comments.

 

Trevlar, this is absolutely awesome. Especially liking the 'performance data'. Thanks so much

 

off topic, but wanna ask here, jonhy.pear, i take a look at the servage link at your sig, too good too be true, wtf, yeah i admit i love that package, do you or anyone here have any experience with that host ?? i might buy it if it's true !