Redirecting a specific IP address...

Make one IP address go to a specific page...

[jefsing]

I have someone who is continuously googling phrases where I have adword ad's and then clicking on my different ads. They are doing the same thing over and over just about every day costing me quite a few dollars a day. They are coming from the same ip address every time. I could just block the person's IP address from visiting my website but that would not stop them from clicking on my ads and still running up the price. I'm not sure its the best thing to do, but I would like to create a page that gives the user a message asking not to do that any longer. So, how can I make it so no matter what URL the person from this IP address comes in on, they will get redirected to the "message" page?

Thanks,
jeff

[lammert]

We recently discussed in the Adsense forum how to exclude your personal IP address from showing ads, to prevent clicking on them yourself. You could use this approach to disable ads for this specific IP address.

The thread of this discussion is [webmasterworld.com...]

[jefsing]

This wouldn't do anything for me because I need the ads to stop showing on his computer which is impossible for me to do. These are adwords ads not adsense... so the ads aren't displaying on my site.

This is why I at least want to redirect him to a different webpage to say "hey... stop it!" Even though that likely wouldn't do anything.

Jeff

[lammert]

Sorry that I didn't understand your situation the first time correctly. If this person is searching on different kinds of keywords and as a result clicking your ads on different websites the only thing that might help is contact Adwords directly and ask them to mark clicks from this IP as invalid.

Maybe they tell you it is "part of normal webvisitors behaviour to click ads more than once" but you never know.

Forum 81 is dedicated to Adwords and there is active support from Google's AdwordsAdvisor in that forum, so you might find your answer there.

[jefsing]

Thanks.

Yeah, I've already contacted google and they are looking into it.

I was just looking for a non-google related answer in how to redirect a specific IP address to a specific page no matter what URL they are coming in on.

Thanks,
Jeff

[lammert]

You can look at forum 92 if you are running on Apache. There are many examples there how to redirect one or more IP addresses to a sorry.html page. With the mod_rewrite functionality you just need about three lines in your .htaccess file. If you can't find in the forum what you are looking for, moderator jdMorgan is always very helpful.

BTW, did you think of the possibility that these are all different users? Large providers like AOL are tunneling many users through one IP. Try to do a reverse dns lookup to see where the requests are originated. You were saying that they are first googling phrases and than clicking ads. If it is just one user who wants to play with you, I can't imagine why he would first use google, he would be going to your ads right away I guess. That's why I was thinking it might be AOL...

[jefsing]

Thanks!

Yes, I realize many peope get filtered through the same IP address in many instance. The reason I don't think that is the case for this particular issue is the way they are visiting my ads and site. It's hard to explain, but it goes something like this:

the person going from landing page to landing page, without visiting any pages in between such as:
url.com/landingpage1.html (then)
url.com/landingpage2.html (then)
url.com/landingpage3.html (then)
url.com/landingpage4.html

To get to each of those landing pages you have to type in a different search phrase such as:
san francisco hog farmer -> landingpage1.html
san francisco pig farm -> landingpage2.html
san francisco sheep herder -> landingpage3.html
san francisco farming -> landingpage4.html

The best I can gather is that the person performs a search to bring up one of my ads and then clicks it to get to landingpage1.html then hit the back button which puts him back at google and they type in a new search phrase. Then, they clicked on my second ad and got to landingpage2.html and did this over and over for most of my ads.

Jeff