AdSense and intranets

How do they handle it?

[caspita]

Hi Guys,

I'm kind of new about this Adsense stuff, I already got my account and started to show the ads in my site .. I have not clicked any so far but I'm sort of worry for the following reason:

I use to spend some time on my work place playing with my web site, adding some stuff and researching out of my work time basically because the high speed there, so I use to do some stuff from there. I have also showed my web site to some of my co-workers and some of them have saved the url in their favorites and I can see they use to stop by mi site once in a while, but the thing is that I have noticed that when some body from my department goes to my webpage their IP is same that mine basically because the company use a proxy to let the people surf the web, so a few IPs are used and are always the same. Unfortunatly this is the same IP from where I sent the application for the program :-( also. Does somebody know if google is aware of this kind of scenarios? I don't want to have troubles with the program, so any advice will be apreciated.

Thanks a lot.

CS.

[Mario]

You should add a script to display something else if the ip no is your company's. Its the only way to be sure that nobody will click the ads.

[level80]

Unless it's a really big company & your site is massively popular - the amount of clicks on Google Adsense ads on your site (I'm pretty sure) will be below the levels that trigger Google's fraud detection algorithms.

Of course if most of the visitors to your site were from the company you work for (and one IP address) it would be a different matter as most of the Adsense clicks would be from the same IP address.

[Blue_Fin]

If you don't even mention AdSense to your co-workers and you don't click on the ads yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

[caspita]

Thanks guys,

I think I'll implement that IP checker because I want to avoid the issue. The site is not popular but you never know, I have read in some other posts that even one or two click could caugth the attention from Google.

Thanks a lot.

[Blue_Fin]

I have read in some other posts that even one or two click could caugth the attention from Google.

I really doubt that is true since Google does not provide specifics when they contact you.

[Mario]

I accidently clicked once on one of my ads and got a warning email from Google at the end of the month. This was one click in 1000s.

[loanuniverse]

This is one of the reasons why I have not told most of the people at work about my site {only 2}. Five hundred people behind a single static ip, a lot of pageviews and clicks could generate.

[Blue_Fin]

I accidently clicked once on one of my ads and got a warning email from Google at the end of the month. This was one click in 1000s.

Mario, I don't think you can show that it was your click that caused that email. Many publishers here have reported that they have clicked on their own ads a few times yet they didn't receive the email. It's a lot more likely that someone else's clicking activity caused you to receive that email rather than your single click.

[Mario]

It was months ago so maybe things have changed. At the time, Google made it very clear that it was my click and gave me some helpful instructions on how to view ads without clicking them.

[Jenstar]

AdSense definitely was much stricter in the early days about self-clicked ads. In the first month or two, there was a rash of "fraudulent clicks" emails, and most (if not all) were attributed to publishers clicking on their own ads. Many just did not realize that even a few clicks could cause a problem.

The early version of the policies never said "Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs" as it does now. Many just weren't aware that clicking on an ad, even if they were genuinely interested in whatever was advertised, was not permitted.

It could also have been to set a precident that AdSense does look at things like publisher-clicked ads - there were many, many publishers in AdSense in the first few weeks who were going click happy on their own ads (and getting their friends to go click happy too) and Google needed to do something to show they were being proactive against this kind of fraud, thus the rash of fraudulent click emails back then.

[caspita]

many publishers in AdSense in the first few weeks who were going click happy on their own ads (and getting their friends to go click happy too)

Well I don't see how google can also get you in trouble when you show your web to your friends, it is a primary source of coustomers for you because you usually share many of your ideas with them or just because you like to show your skills. Many people knows also that clicking those links is the way the webmasters get the money to run many sites and I suppose that if your friends know about your web and they get to visit you they will click once in a while for two reason, they are interested or they know that way they can help.

That was the reason for my main question here, some of my friends here in my company for sure will try to help clicking the ads, but the big issue is that all of them have the same Ip that mine, so I ended up doing special scripting to avoid show them (and me) the ads, even knowing that I could get real good clicks.

CS.

[jomaxx]

>> some of my friends here in my company for sure will try to help clicking the ads,
>> but the big issue is that all of them have the same Ip that mine

I think you're using good common sense, but it sounds like you should make it clear to them you don't want them "helping" you by inflating your click stats from their homes either. That's not what AdSense is for, and I have no doubt that Google has a variety of algorithms that can identify a pattern of false clicks.