Comments on: On Clicking your Own Adsense Ads

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:36:16 +0000

Perhaps somebody should make a GreaseMonkey script for this?

By: mani

mani — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:48:22 +0000

Once i accidently clicked on my ads. But there is an option of informing google about “Accidently clicked Ads” i dont remember the address but search for”inform accidently clicked ads” on Google and you will find the form for doing that. My website is related to work from home. I have a long list of Web directories for SEO and a big list of high paying keywords for better money.

By: Abhinav Sood

Abhinav Sood — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:39:12 +0000

If you don't want to use any external preview tool or WebScript, then you can follow my post Click your own Ads & Google won’t even mind!... All you have to do is just a ultra-short line of code at the end of ad code, that does what any preview tool or script does.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:19:39 +0000

-don’t stare at adsense adds for too long(joking) they might cancel your account, you know how picky google can be.

By: Paul Power

Paul Power — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:48:32 +0000

Being a newbie to AdSense I’ve also accidentally clicked on my own adverts, I assumed that Google would just ignore them. When I checked my AdSense report they were there but as $0 so it looks like Google does the sensible thing of tracking the user owned clicks but doesn’t pay for them.

I’m assuming that their tracking feds into some sort of fraud monitoring application and that a significent number of $0 clicks marks you as worth of investigation – here’s hoping that click threshold isn’t very low.

By: Leonivek

Leonivek — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 03:27:57 +0000

I’ve also accidentally clicked my ads while working on the design and literally swore out loud! LOL This actually happened 2 days ago and I was thinking, “Oh no! I don’t want to lose my account!” But when I checked my report, it said that click was $0… phew. I also agree that they should come up with an “Ignore this IP” option.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:12:12 +0000

If you are so interested in the things that are offered in the ad, you can click the link with the right mouse button, and copy the URL for the ad, and paste it into your browser. Then delete everyhing except the url for the page, which will be in adurl=

By: Jack Krupansky

Jack Krupansky — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:48:56 +0000

Just mouse over the Google ad and your browser should tell you the URL of the ad. Usually the little pop-up ballon says “go to http://www.XYZ.com“, telling you the web site. The actual initial target of the click is more complicated since it goes to Google first for tracking before finally redirectly to the advertiser’s particular portal page for that ad.

– Jack Krupansky

By: Geert

Geert — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:05:00 +0000

Google actually does filter your own clicks out. After somebody in my network clicked on an ad I remember seeing 1 click with a revenue of $0.

By: Mark Boudreau

Mark Boudreau — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:47:14 +0000

How hard would it be for Google to implement some kind of “ignore visits from this IP address” function similar to what Sitemeter uses? On Sitemeter I set up my account so that it ignores visits to my site from both my home and work IP addresses thereby preventing me from getting false positives in my stats. It can’t be that hard.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:28:01 +0000

I accidently clicked on one of my ads once. I didn’t meant to honestly. I was so afraid that something bad would happen. But nothing has. I’m hoping Google will forgive one accident.

Anyway, I think a better strategy would be for google to just filter these clicks out. So, you can click on the ads, but it doesn’t get you any money or cost the advertiser anything.

By: Ogo

Ogo — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:44:12 +0000

Hi !
Another method that I remember reading somewhere in google page was clicking the “ads by Goooooogle” line which is found on one of the corners of your ad unit ,which will take you to feedback and suggestions page where the URLs (without any Google reference) of the current ads are visible. You could then copy-paste the clean URL to another browser just like Darren pointed out. This does not create self-clicks unless you miss the tiny google link and hit a real ad! Risky ! :-)
Ogo

By: Geert

Geert — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 07:07:18 +0000

@ Dane: that is my situation at home and it is not very practical. I have to keep telling my mom and brothers not to click those ads. By now they should know, however some “fraudulent” clicks out of genuine interest have been generated.

By: Migs

Migs — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:35:48 +0000

I wrote a simple web script to let you safely view your ads. It’s here. It works by taking out your publisher ID and replacing it with “ca-test” which is used by the preview tool. Hope this helps.

By: Dane Carlson

Dane Carlson — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 03:19:48 +0000

Never, ever, ever click your own ads!

If you share a network connection with other people, tell them to NEVER click on your ads, because if someone from one IP address looks at the stats, and then later someone clicks on an ad from the from the same IP address it it might look suspicious.

You never want to receive an email from Google like this, especially if you were generating a decent number of clicks: “It has come to our attention that fraudulent clicks have been generated on the ads on your site(s), and we are investigating the situation.”

By: Migs

Migs — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:35:47 +0000

They know it’s you because of the cookie you’ll send when signing up, accessing the control panel, and clicking on your own ad.