Hi Friends here it will be highly obliged if some one give details on preventing adsense account from accidental self or family click. As it is known to us that Google is very serious about fraud clicking on adsense advertisement. Whether it clicked knowingly or unknowingly they are not bothered about it. Some time adsense ads on my account may be accidentally get clicked by my family members. So how stop this accidental self clicking?
I have a pretty lame way to do it but it works good for me. My wife's brother is staying with us and knows about my site and is constantly checking it. I told him to make sure he doesn't click on the ads but I'm still worried that he might on accident. Anyways, what I did was added an invalid entry into the hosts file on our computer so if he tries to go to my site the entry in the hosts file will resolve my site to google.com (or whatever you want). When I need to work on my site I just comment out the change and flush the DNS cache, then put it back when I'm done. Like I said it's not the best way but I sleep better at night knowing he's not screwing with my money.