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Someone know it is impossible to track urls and clicks for free? I have adsense on a website i want to track wich of urls on adsense have been clicked and how much payment they made.
I track which visitors are using cookies, assuming a 2nd page view, and a very high percentage of people aren't using them at all. This is why I bailed on most of my affiliate programs because without cookie tracking they're a waste of my time and web space.
For tracking it may be OK, but I wouldn't count on their click fraud prevention feature which is cookie based and not IP based, that's just unreliable.
It does both. It checks against the database to see if any clicks came from that IP, and it also checks to see if the cookie value is set. Also, you can ban an IP or range of IPs from seeing ads.
I for one try not to block web filters -- I don't want them to ban *me* and lose the opportunity to market to surfers behind corporate proxies/caches/filters at work.
You can't ban them by IP on AOL but you can temporarily quarantine the IP for about an hour and by then AOL typically will have switched them to a new IP. If they are using cookies, and you see the cookie appear on a different IP you can release the quarantine on the previous IP and then you can continue to track and block them with the cookie. However, if they AREN'T using cookies, you start over from scratch as they hop IPs and quarantine their new IP all over again after detecting bad behavior.
