Sootah - 1:01 am on Jul 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

I was thinking as I drove home the other night. Perhaps the people that get disabled for 'invalid clicks' that claim to never have clicked on their own ads are really to blame.

Let's assume that they haven't ever clicked on their own ads with the exeption of the once or twice that inevitibaly happens by accident.

Google's tracking ablilties are surely stellar, and I imagine they have quite the profile on all of we adsense publishers.

My theory is this: perhaps you get disabled for attempting to sabotage another publisher? Google will know in a hurry if you click your own ads. If the IP that logs into adsense is clicking ads then it's obviously an invalid click. Well, what if that publisher IP goes to somebody elses site and clicks a bunch of ads to make it appear as if the other publisher is doing the fraud? If I were Google I'd ban the offenders account too...

Anyway, just a thought. Have you been clicking others ads more than you should....?