Google AdSense Forum

I've coded a small script for my server (in Coldfusion) that will stop showing Adsense to an IP that clicked more than x times withing 1 day.

For sure this can be also made in any other server sided language.

Yes this is a problem.

like hey Google i found a site that is pop undering my ad's, sending me blog spam traffic.. and i thinkj they are clicking on the ad's from these 10,000 proxies .. is that ok?

not quite the scale of 10,000 proxies i must add ;)

proxies would be a problem unless google have a list of known proxies what they track for clicks and these IP numbers are automatically removed from your adsense account, may be? or may be not that simple to track.

One way to do it without modifying Google ad code is to put the ad into a separate file, like 'path/includeads001.php'.
In the main page 'index.php', simply include that file:
<?php
if ($show_ads) {
include('path/includeads001.php');
}
else {
do_something_else;
}
?>

You could have multiple include files with different colour shemes or text_image combinations and select them as you like.

Now. Are you planning to do this to yourself or to do somebody else in?

are google unable to detect clickbots?

Which could kill them.

Romeo, I believe that thy method would work very well to turn on or off the advertisement.

Unfortunately it would not log the IP address of who is clicking on the advertisement.

Unless thee have some sort of a client side code, I cannot see how thee can track the IP without modifying the ad code from Google.

the IP would have to be in bad user database .. you can sniff to see if the adsense script has been clicked or not .. even down to what ad was clicked

the $show_ads may be set with the following logic - looks clumsy but works:

A JS adsense tracking script on the page does a GET /images/1pixel.gif?parms=$PAGE&ad=$AD or the like, to be logged. One or two free scripts circulated here on WW about a year ago.

A small perl script running in the background scans the httpd log for these GETs by emulating a 'tail -f' and INSERTs the $REMOTE_ADDR and a time stamp into a mySQL database.

In the web page carrying adsense there is a short piece of PHP code doing a SELECT for how many records the database has for a given $REMOTE_ADDR.
If > $X then set the $show_ads to not show the ads.

Finally, another small perl script should be fired from cron every hour deleting old records from the database with timestamps more that 2 hours old.
Eventually, once a day or once a week the script may additionally drop and re-create the table, as I don't know how good the space handling of mySQL is if using a table this way over days and weeks.

Before Google allowed you to opt out of PSAs, someone passed me some code to detect what the ads were and to not display them if they were PSAs. I was scared it was outside the TOS and didn't use it. But he assured me it was ok.

Has anyone else tried this? Now that I have code to not display Yahoo to international visitors, maybe it's time to dig deeper into what to show. Start logging the urls and ads displayed and rotating between Google and Yahoo depending on what's shown. There isn't enough variety to my ads and it might help both programs to give them a "push"...