Too many clicks

[blueheaven123]

I decided to monitor my clicks and I noticed that from one ip, there were 16 entries in a day from the same day
Usually there are about 1k clicks a day from different users and such.

-> This clicks were monitored using the php " on_focus, so it might be not as accurate

I'm thinking about banning the ip, should that be done? or is it too late. Maybe the user is on a shared network
Or its possible that the user was just howevering over the ads.

I read about on here that you can include a script like this

<?php include("inc/ads.php");?>
-- inc/ads.php :
include("blocked_ips.php");
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ad_client = "<< YOUR PUBLISHER ID >>";
if(in_array($ip,$blocked_ips)) $ad_client="";
// print << ADSENSE CODE... $ad_client ...ADSENSE CONTINUED >>
-- inc/blocked_ips.php :
$blocked_ips = array(
'xx.xx.xx.xx', 'xx.xx.xx.xx', 'xx.xx.xx.xx'
);

To block files over an amount of clicks, thats been set.

[incrediBILL]

Don't forget services like AOL reuse a huge bank of IPs, so do many dial-up services, so 16 clicks from one IP is nothing in a whole day.

[OptiRex]

Unless it's a totally disproportionate quantity of clicks then it's nothing to worry about.

My logs read like a who's who of major ISPs going round the world each working day from Japan to China to Europe, especially German and UK AOL, Wanadoo, T-online dial-ups and then through to the USA, and as iBill says:

AOL reuse a huge bank of IPs

Get worried if your clicks only come from one source!

[blueheaven123]

I decided to just block the ip, not sure what to put in the php, What do you think should be the cut off for people clicking on the ads, over 5 click bans?

As some of these clicks might be on_focus views.

[toldan]

As some of these clicks might be on_focus views.

What kind of "on_focus views"? If it's not a click, then it's not going to be registered as a click. It's simple as that.

[jomaxx]

No, it's not. That's not the way click trackers work. They cannot detect a click, but the loophole is that they CAN use the onFocus event to infer that a click is taking place. However that's far from 100% accurate.

Anyway, as for 16 clicks from one IP in a day, who cares? Forget about it. There's one important rule on the Internet: "It takes all kinds". You can never get to the bottom of why people do what they do. Google know this and they aren't going to ban you for one user at the high end of the Bell Curve.