CPM Site Ads - do my own visits count?

You're not supposed to click on your own ads, but...

[netmeg]

Ok, so you're not supposed to click on your own ads, but what happens if your site is targeted by someone for CPM ads? Is Google counting my own visits to my site (which are somewhat frequent, as I am always working on it, checking the ads that are appearing, and various other things) It's not much, but I probably add 100 to 200 impressions per day to the overall total.

If I were doing CPM advertising (which I have, for clients, but gave it up), I don't think I'd like the idea that I was paying for the site owner's impressions, but maybe it's unavoidable? Is this an unclosed loophole?

[ken_b]

Yes they count. If you're adding 100 to a site that gets 500 total per day, I'd worry.

If you're adding 100 impressions to a site that gets 50,000 impressions per day, I'd worry less.

Ask Google to be sure.

[netmeg]

Closer to the latter than the former.

[Hobbs]

All Google will tell you is not to browse too many of pages, work out a way to do your work without browsing hundreds of your own pages daily, if it is for checking that the ads are there, then it is an obsession that needs self control, if it is a non ad related work necessaty, then use another java disabled browser or use an ad blocker.

[gregbo]

If I were doing CPM advertising (which I have, for clients, but gave it up), I don't think I'd like the idea that I was paying for the site owner's impressions, but maybe it's unavoidable? Is this an unclosed loophole?

If someone creates a lot of impressions from a wide variety of IP address blocks, in a time span more than the order of an hour, it could be interpreted as different users and the advertiser might be charged for most if not all of them.

[turtlehurricane]

valueclick is ok with viewing your own site. google probably is too.