My wife clicked an ad!

[mat_bastian]

My wife was visiting one of my sites, she found an ad she was interested in and clicked on that bugger. I freaked and risked divorce by snapping at her. Told her I will be at risked of being kicked out of the program due to fraudulant clicks. :(

I am now thinking I just over-reacted, but it led me to wonder; is there a way for Google to allow for us to input our IP address and have adsense ignore any clicks from that IP.

My wife was genuinly interested in the site behind the ad, and she literally thought this was how it worked. She assumed Google would detect that it was us and not count the click. After I jumped on her she wanted to email google to ask them not to ad the revenue from the click, but I figure we'll just leave it alone and not do it again.

Well, should I be worried?

[saoi_jp]

Decisions ....decisions...the wife or adsense...

Divorce and suing for losses on those grounds go against the TOS of AdSense. You'd have to reveal your stats in court.

[movie-trailer ad guy's voice]
The decision, just got harder.
[/movie-trailer ad guy's voice]

[utica]

If you divorce will she get half your PR?

[tqatsju]

the advantage of partly static urls i create with a dynamic script is that they don't have to call the database to list all of our products, which at least increases the speed of the site somewhat.

[leeboy]

Can't believe you let a woman near a computer, seriously thats nuts!

[trillianjedi]

If you divorce will she get half your PR?

LMAO.

If this is in the states, she'll get 90% of it....

TJ

[John_Creed]

My wife was visiting one of my sites, she found an ad she was interested in and clicked on that bugger. I freaked and risked divorce by snapping at her. Told her I will be at risked of being kicked out of the program due to fraudulant clicks. :(

Whoa. Talk about paranoia and a lack of common sense. Clicking an ad a few times is no big deal.

Lots of webmasters click on their own ads every now and than.

[zeus]

I have clicked a few times a week, maybe(4-8 clicks), I have to do that to check if the sites is in my field of business, so the ads can be ignored and I dont think Google will do anything about that as long as the clicks is 99% not from your IP.

zeus

[futureX]

I dont see what the problem is, theres nothing fraudulent about clicking your own ads unless you do it ecessvley. And they dont know who you are in relation to your ip and your account.