I programmed it in so that when i visit my site, none of the google ads show up for me. Because I visit often, and since i cant click on ads it doesn't make sense to even show them. Plus it lowers CTR for each impression you serve to yourself. So if you have the ability to do this, and you have a static IP address.. i highly recommend it. It seemed to improve my CTR and CPM. And you cant accidentally click on any.. which I've done. opps. Just thought I'd mention it. here's the php code if($_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] != "your.ip.address") { print "google ad code"; } PHP: hope this helps someone..
Nice tip, I do something similar on my blogs, but instead of checking the IP address I check if you are logged in, that way I can had ads from multiple locations and multiple authors (though obviously if they log out ads will show.). I also show an image instead of nothing so that you can still see the layout.
actually, you can disable all your javascript in your browser and you won't see any javascript ads already. at work place, I can't see my google ads. ONly adbrite ads is shown.
I seriously never knew that if you click on your own ads it really messes up, but now that i have learned i stoped.
Watch your email inbox for the dreaded "banned" message from Google, sending you to Google hell, from which it is almost impossible to return, even if you attempt trickery and clever deceit. Sorry.
they should just do what Yahoo does. Apparently with Yahoo if they detect your ip as clicking/showing the banner they don't count it at all vs google where you get in trouble for click fraud.
Sorry I don't get it. How does it work even if you have dynamic IP? I need more info to properly implement this...
No it won't unless you use some advanced programming with a programm running in your PC. Nice tip though
Or you can just use the ad block extension in Mozilla firefox and block ads from your publisher id url.
Just curious to know how many times are you reloading your webpages. I understand that you need to reload frequently if you are testing a new layout but then you can change the id to some test value.
Thanks a lot w3bmistress, I do test my pages on my localhost so reloading pages over and over is a pain so I will implement your code
I personally need to see what ads show on my website, to improve keywords. LOL so I know where my ads are and I just don't click it.
well i use the site to play the games .. and im always doing some sort of testing etc.. is why i'd be loading pages.. the dynamic IP won't work this way.. but you could then use some kind of login and if you have a cookie set then it won't show you the ads.
exactly. I think blocking your own ads from yourself is a horrible way to make more money off them. That is, afterall, the goal, no? If you can't see what's going on, how can you possibly improve them? Thanks for sharing your code, w3b, but I just don't think this is very practical.
Some ideas came up in this thread about blocking ads. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=66562 hth, tom
I add the line google_adtest='on'; to my AdSebse code. That keeps impressions/clicks from counting. I'm writing a fancy ad delivery PHP class for my new site, and I have all my Google ad codes stored in their straight-from-Google form in my database. My script inserts the test line in my code when the page is served if either (a) the current user is an administrator or (b) I have a particular setting at 0 so no ads shown count (for testing). Don't use the google_adtest variable without getting permission from Google first, though. I emailed them asking about it and that's what they told me to use.