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Im sure if someone managed to create such a script, he will first become a hero and second will make a fortune by selling this script!
The question is, is it possible to create such a script? (im not a coder so no idea!)
But would it work?
What about all the people that are surfing the net
with dynamic ip-addresses?
this should work for ASP
<% if Request.Servervariables("REMOTE_HOST") = "the ip address" then
response.redirect "any web site"
else
end if %>
If you need it for PHP or slight modifications, let me know.
Hard to make a fortune off of a free script though. :)
create such a script, he will first become a hero and second will make a fortune by selling this script
I do not think so.
More than 50% of my revenues are AdLinks.
Clicks on AdLinks can not be controlled by the script.
So the whole thing makes no sense to me.
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jetteroheller,
I guess based on your post you assume everbody uses link units. So we might as well all give up on tracking clicks. No data is better than some data in your opinion.
FWIW, any good click tracker will detect the initial click on link units. In fact, I've found click trackers to be very close to the stats givin by Google- ~95% accurate.
But would it work?
What about all the people that are surfing the net
with dynamic ip-addresses?
Yes, it would work, and it's been done. But rather than doing it by IP address, which would involve using a database, you could just set a cookie once an ad is clicked. Then, if the cookie value is greater than, for example, 2 in a 24 hour period, no ads will be shown for that user.
[edited by: martinibuster at 4:20 am (utc) on May 9, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed Link Per TOS & Forum Charter [/edit]
It doesnt work with IE7 however, due to default settings of disabling window status updates via script.
This doesn't bode well for the ability to log AdSense clicks in the long run.
I think a DB would do the job, but of course, this DB would've become very large and you would have to go an dump it from time to time. Of course this could have been done by the PHP script as well, but I don't know exactly how much job you should put into this..
Another thing would be to put the whole script inside a $_SESSION variable, and save the sessions into the server, this would prevent the users for controlling the script by deleting their cookies.
(Personally I would've found out my competitors ip-addresses, and then just ban those from viewing my entire site) - But that's just me ;)
This forum has lost it's ingenuity and problem solving capability. There is a lot of "can't do attitude" around here. Maybe I'm wrong and it's the onslaught of AdSense newbies that have diluted the intellectual pool here at WebmasterWorld. That's one reason why I don't post information here that would probably save a lot of you thousands of hours of headaches. Just a heads up, the black hatters don't have that attitude and this is why they are so successful at what they do.
Anyhow, it is possible to record clicks through methods other than window.status (it's already being done). Two, delete cookies all day if you want, it wouldn't work with my software. Using cookies to track a user beyond a user session is useless anyhow. Most click fraud is perpetrated rapidly in succession. This is what you want to catch.
Relying on $_SESSION = (gave me a chuckle) Fantasy world
Relying on competitors IP = Fantasy world
PS- I'm looking to contribute to a nice tech forum with a "can do attitude". If anyone has a suggestion, please sticky me.
and let people try to help with what they know. We're not all in tech stuff, not everybody is a programmer or understands all this things you're talking about, but they're still trying to help, unlike you. Who cares what your program can do, if you don't wanna help others to resolve the problem, you can stick that program in ... you know where.
[edited by: martinibuster at 8:41 pm (utc) on May 8, 2006]
[edit reason] TOS # 4 & 19. [/edit]
PS: Be careful what you say. I could send you a little something too, and remember, you're not a technical type of guy.
You solve problems by tackling them head on. You don't give up because somebody says it's impossible. You work together to find a solution. How hard is that?
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Face it guys, you can't trust anything on the net these days. You can't trust your logs to be 100% accurate, you can't trust your computer OS or browser to be 100% secure, you can't trust every hit to your site is initiated by a real live human being, and yes, you can't trust ad click trackers to be 100% accurate.
But that doesn't mean you can't narrow the odds in your favor.
