Forum Moderators: martinibuster
--With each tweak (directly Adsense-related or otherwise), I reload my web pages to observe the effect. With each page reload, up ticks the ad impressions counter. This is annoying because on the days with the artificially inflated impressions count (and no corresponding clicks; see below), the CTR, CPM, etc. are artificially skewed downward.
--With all my mad clicking about (on the page refresh button, on menus and different page elements), I live in mortal fear of accidentally clicking on one of the Adsense ads (particularly on ads placed closely to, e.g., scroll bars or menus), especially when I'm tired and it's late at night.
Both of these problems would vanish if Google simply allowed us to filter one IP address, or perhaps a small set of IP addresses, from *all* statistics.
If Google allows us to filter advertiser URLs, why not also publisher IP addresses?
If the added computation load of filtering a set or range of IP addresses is thought to be prohibitive, then how about just a single IP address? (I routinely filter out garbage, bot activity, and other noise from my httpd logs based on IP addresses and other page and visitor attributes. The programming is not hard to do, and any delays are unnoticeable.)
Yes, I know that for many people, their Adsense console has a varying, DHCP-assigned address. Then either:
--permit filtering across a range of addresses; if this also filters out network neighbors' activity and clicks, tough luck
--permit filtering just a single address; for people with varying DHCP-assigned IP addresses, tough luck
Can we assume that Google has people assigned to read these fora, people who will bring suggestions like this one to the attention of higher-ups? And/or does Google have an on-line suggestion box? (I get the impression from this forum that most publisher e-mail is simply ignored.)
Optional filtering of specific publisher IP address(es) from all activity stats--how about it, Google?
(goes searching in his own pages)
<? if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']!='123.123.123.123') {?>
(replace 123.123.123.123 with your IP )
And just after it insert:
<? }?>
In any case, the most effective, universally applicable filtering would come from Google.
It's rather absurd that ordinary Adsense publishers have to fret about accidentally clicking Adsense ads on their web pages.
And, as others have mentioned, armed with this new form of IP address filtering, we could proactively fight back against other people maliciously click bombing us, instead of just hoping that Google recognizes and fairly takes care of the situation.
I feel absolutely paranoid!
