If Everyone Emailed AdSense Support

would google listen?

[StuntasticAudi]

We all have seen topics people post about invalid clicks, or how they got banned because their mom clicked on their ads, or friends. Competitors click on your ads thinking they will ban you that way. Some people get banned for invalid clicks when they never done anything wrong. Why can't google come up with a system that lets you in your adsense account enter ip addresses that you want to block. Or if you have someone clicking on your ads over and over again google just blocks him after lets say 3 clicks and keeps him blocked for 3 months or something.

I think that would help out google controlling invalid clicks and make it more secure. What if all of us emailed adsense support suggesting this. I mean if we got a group of hundreds of webmasters doing this would they actually listen and come up with something?

[jetteroheller]

Or if you have someone clicking on your ads over and over again google just blocks him after lets say 3 clicks and keeps him blocked for 3 months or something.

Because there are people on a shopping tour evaluating carefully each listed result in an AdLink.

They can easy produce 10 valid clicks from one single page.

Guess how angry such people would become, if You would close him the AdLink result page after 3 clicks.

[Andrew Bassett]

I think it's a good idea. I don't know, maybe Google has a reason against doing that.

[StuntasticAudi]

Because there are people on a shopping tour evaluating carefully each listed result in an AdLink.

They can easy produce 10 valid clicks from one single page.

Guess how angry such people would become, if You would close him the AdLink result page after 3 clicks.

...the 3 clicks thing was just my quick solution. I'm sure google can think of a better way to control it though..block them maybe after 7 clicks or something.

[incrediBILL]

You can already block people from your website by IP, easy enough without Google's help.

There are also AdSense tracking scripts that stop people from clicking too many ads from a single page, or allow you to block ads to certain people altogether.

However, once they get an AdLinks pages up on the screen all bets are off as you have no clue what they're doing at that point, but then again it's not under your control, so that one's up to Google to deal with, but as long as it's on your site you can take control of a lot of activity.

[jenkers]

there's a lot more to it than just checking against ip address. I know for certain one of my transport pages is listed on a central government intranet and gets hundreds of visitors a day from that link (thank you the admin that put my link up) - and they only use a couple of outwardly facing ip addresses. Haven't had a sniff of trouble in over 2 years.

[Thez]

We all have seen topics people post about invalid clicks, or how they got banned because their mom clicked on their ads, or friends.

This point comes up frequently and it's bull. I've clicked my ads dozens of times in the past either by accident or just to see where the link goes. Unless there is a noticable click attack from a single IP, clicking your own ads will not get you banned.

And how would Google now "you" are clicking "your" ads, unless the IP you are using is the same as the domain's A record (Ie, you'd be using the server for browsing) there is no way Google could know it is "you". Otherwise they would just use a system to ignore the clicks.