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My dumb question: What if you sing up and tell all your friends that click your ad? (I know that is not correct, but the question is how does google consider a valid click?)
What about your own clicks? I use to enter repeadly to my sites for mantainance reasons and to check everything is going right, so I probably will click sometimes those ads?
Will google count that too? My own clicks?
What if a competitor clicks repeatedly your ads? Does that harm your adsense account? or benefit?
What about your own clicks? I use to enter repeadly to my sites for mantainance reasons and to check everything is going right, so I probably will click sometimes those ads?
Don't. That's a violation of the program policies, and you're likely to be kicked out if you're caught (as many publishers have been).
What if a competitor clicks repeatedly your ads? Does that harm your adsense account? or benefit?
About clicking yourself I understand.
However any competitor would have very little motivation to get you kicked out, since they wouldn't stand to gain anything - it's not going to drive you right out of business, and it won't help them show better ads. The only scenario where it really makes sense is where the publisher is also bidding competitively for keyword traffic.
Besides, any competitor doing so would be exposing themselves to a huge civil lawsuit, and maybe even criminal charges, especially now that it's possible for webmasters to track the IP addresses where clicks are coming from, and even to set cookies when a user clicks on an ad.
