stop multiple clicks

[hermes]

I am sure there must be threads on this elsewhere but I cannot track them down. Anyone know a good methodology to stop visitors clicking ads more than once? Not a single malicous visitor per se - more along the lines of people just doing it because....I dont even know why they would do it - I would just like some insurance to stop them. It only takes one such idiot and u r out.

[rj87uk]

Try Here [google.com]

[hermes]

thanx m8. any other options?

[jetteroheller]

Why do You want to stop a visitor to view more than one ad?

Special ad AdLink, You can not stop him.
He clicks on the AdLink and comes to a page full of ads.

Look a little bit more on Your channel stats to see, that Your idea is hogwash.

[jomaxx]

I don't think "hogwash" is the word to use in this situation, but in general I agree it's not necessary to do this.

I would recommend a click tracking script to MONITOR clicks. That way if you see a weird spike or Google informs you of invalid clicks, you can go back and see what's been happening.

But limiting users to a single click is unnecessary IMO, and it could decrease your earnings by quite a bit -- say 20% as a guess. The problem is that someone who clicks on an AdSense ad is likely to be the kind of person who will read and click on other AdSense ads.

[Jay718]

does google contact you as soon as they see invalid or fraudlent clicks?

[frox]

does google contact you as soon as they see invalid or fraudlent clicks?

Yes, of cource they do.

Thay have to contact you to tell you you are banned :-(

[OldWolf]

I dont understand why google dont wanna stop this .Iam reading that they are banning sites coz some kids clickin on their adds so many times .

I personally would like to have an option at my adsense panel like dont count clicks if it comes more than 1 times with same IP.

I am already earning very poor from adsense but IMO its better to earn lower instead they close my account coz of a visitor click 2-3 ads .

[jomaxx]

Jay: Not always or as soon as detected, but there have been reports of people receiving email warnings that "invalid clicks were detected" but not actually getting kicked out. Also people who are kicked out have occasionally been reinstated after further investigation.

Again, overall I wouldn't worry about it. Google are smart enough to detect sophisticated patterns of fraud, and I'm sure they can also recognize newbies, immature pranks and dunderheaded efforts to get a site penalized for what they are.

[martinibuster]

I receive 120% CTR on some low traffic sites every once in awhile. I sent G an email about it and they said it's people backing up and clicking another ad. I guess it happens more often than we might think.

[sailorjwd]

I had a spike in clicks the other day on one page which showed about a 200% CTR. And it wasn't a statistical thing with a lag in impressions - about 40 clicks.

The result was an immediate lowering of EPC to nothing or pennies.

I removed adsense code from the page and notified G.

Finally got a response from G yesterday and they thanked me and let me know that they had algos in place to handle this type of situation and basically said that I don't need to worry about it.

I feel that those that get banned for invalid clicks aren't banned because of a naughty visitor - likely 99% of the cases are some type of fraud on the publishers side.