Proxy servers and Adsense

As part of my site I have a forum and recently I checked the IP address of one of the members and was amazed to see that 13 people were posting from the same IP address

At first I thought that someone had opened multiple accounts, but this cannot be the case as some of the members are qualified tradesmen and are experts in their field.

I did an IP look up through the forum software and it seems that they are all coming through a proxy-

cache-los-ad07.proxy.aol.com

This seems to be something to do with AOL.

I am assuming that this could land you in real trouble if a few of these people were to click on the adsense adverts on my site as it would appear that they are all from the same IP address

Any thoughts are welcome ?

 

yes interesting question i also wonder about people with AOL who visit ur site and click adsense

 

Don't worry that much about people clicking from the same IP

Most proxy services DO NOT display javascript, so people using proxies simply can't see any adsense in there.

Many people use proxies to avoid advertisements, since some of them also block images and iframes.

 

Thanks "Pat Gael" for the info

 

I'm using AOL and can't click Google ads

 

i'm not using AOL, so i don't know what happen when someone that using AOL service opening a page contains google ads.

thank for your info Pat gael, but i'm not sure about your theory, because right now i'm using internet connection thats connect to several proxy ( i have added proxy software to my computer, my office proxy server , my ISP proxy server and sometimes i using open proxy on the internet)
and i can still see a google ads appearing in a web page that i open.

Or maybe the condition that you described only fo AOL internet connection ?
correct me if i'm wrong

 

AOL is gay

i wonder what would happen to Adsense if AOL rules ISP in the whole world

 

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yup, i can't imagine that ... that will make a mass unemployment wave

 

No problem, and on a side note, always is good include a noscript tag as alternate advertising, i.e.:

<javascript google blah, blah>
blah, blah coding
</javascript>
<noscript>alternate text link or keywords here</noscript>

Code (markup):

Noscript is what users with javascript disabled or proxy surfing will see

 

say, i never thought of this before. thanks for the explaination. and the solution too. i'm gonna try it.

 

AOL has a bunch of people using the same IP. I wouldn't worry about it, as I'm sure Google has factored this in.

 

I must admit that I am far from happy with AOL.

Firstly I have heard of people that have installed AOL and it has virtually placed itself all over their computer and is almost impossible to uninstall.

Secondly AOL seem to block e-mails from my domain, so people that wish to join my forum do not get their activation e-mail and so cannot join.

Thirdly they block out my adsense code

There must be something in Law that makes what AOL is doing Illegal?

Anyone would think that they owned the internet

 

I am using AOL and i can see Adsense ads...