Has anyone clicked accidently on an own add?

[QuoVadis]

Has anyone clicked accidently on an own add?

I have not but i wonder what would happen if you click by mistake while you are in your site? Do you have to report it to google? Or is there any way you can "hide" (so to say) your ads on your site so to make sure you will never click?

Thanks
QV

[transactiongeek]

One guy came up with a good idea.

Set your hosts file so that google syndication server has 127.0.0.1 as its IP address.

This way, even if someone else comes a long and clicks on it, it will just resolve to a 404 page.

[steve40]

When I first started with adsense i accidently clicked once while trying to check url e.g. right click etc and ounce couple of months later when i was checking my site and saw an add that interested me ,completely forgot it was my own site's adsense and clicked so this is twice in 5 months but bewarned what big G give can be taken away and if adsense provides an additional revenue stream do not take chances ,
I was explaining to my son once about adsense and he said cool ( i will sit for couple of hours every day and click adds and you will be rich )
needless to say i balled him out and told him never to click my adds or he might get me kicked out the same thing applies to kids friends or family they may think they are helping your business but because of thier help you could recieve the dreaded email and have no idea why and it appears from many posts here that G is judge and executioner and Little or no chance of appeal
steve
SO BE SAFE NOT SORRY ABIDE BY ADSENSE TOS

[adfree]

Happened to me once when checking many links (others than AS) and mistakenly clicked at an AS ad.

Wrote to G, got a nice but firm response and that was that.

From that moment on I keep my fingers still and faaaar above the mouse button when hovering over my own sites.

Just like you would hold a gun standing in front of your kids...

[paul12345]

After many months of participation in Adsense I once accidently clicked on an Adsense ad on my site.

I emailed Adsense telling them so. I figured if I have to live in fear of them the least they can do is have to waste a minute or two of time responding to some stupid email from me.

I don't remember the exact response from them but it was no real big deal. I do remember that I thought the email reply was slightly off target and really had nothing to do with the exact email content I had sent them. (In other words the typical email response I get from Adsense.)

[whizkiddo]

well just updated the site and was trying to hit the scroll button with one hand and balancing the pizza with the other but the darn hand hit the left key. just my luck that since the background is same as the adsense ads, i had managed to click within the region of the inline rectangle. threw the pizza back in the box. hit the stop button. but dunno whther its counted or not. wrote to G , would have sweared on someone if they wanted me to. lets c, just came looking for this kinda thread so i could sleep soundly tonite :)

[JohnKelly]

If you serve up ads with PHP and your IP address stays the same (as often it does with broadband), you can block it inside the PHP code.

If your IP address changes and your ISP is a small local one, you can block the entire ISP. Obviously, you wouldn't want to do this if you use AOL :)

[richmondsteve]

I'm going to come clean - I once looked at my AdSense ads and was overcome with evil and impure thoughts. Fortunately I had an ammonia capsule handy and took a whiff. I urge all AdSense publishers to give ammonia treatment a try. You WILL NOT regret it.

Remember, Google is the Lord. I think this is a good time to remind all of you sinner publishers of the Ten Commandments.

1. Google is your revenue-God, thou shall have no other revenue-Gods before him.
2. Thou shall not take the name of Google in vain.
3. Keep holy the Google Dance.
4. Honor Father AdSense and Mother Adwords.
5. Thou shall not click thy competitor's ads.
6. Thou shall not consider other revenue streams.
7. Thou shall not click thy ads.
8. Thou shall not share confidential AdSense information.
9. Thou shall not covet thy competitor's link partners.
10. Thou shall not covet thy competitor's AdSense revenue.

[whizkiddo]

is there any simple way of banning IP or ads to ensure no accidental clicks happen? Maybe i should get myself a copy of Norton. hehe. bet they never thought it would get used by the site owner to block his own ads :)

[bcolflesh]

On Windows, create a file named:

hosts (no extension)

Add the following lines:

127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

You can do this for any host you'd like to block - my file has over 1000 lines and counting.

<edit> Put the file in C:\WINDOWS </edit>

[Noel]

Now I have a question..

Did any of you ever click (after you starting running Adsense) on an Adsens ad that is running on someone else his site?

Before I started serving AdSense (last year) I did, but now I'm even scared to click on one that is not on of my sites :-/

Noel

[Teshka]

Yes, back when I was using MouseTool due to RSI problems (software that clicks automatically for you whenever you stop moving the mouse). Horrified, I prompty emailed Google begging forgiveness and ordered a $300 Touchstream keyboard (look it up--the integrated mouse is great for people with sore hands) the same night.

Google forgave me and I made sure it didn't happen again. The keyboard might have been an extreme reaction but I am still typing with it. :)

[roRisc]

no really.. what happens if one clicks on his own Ad?

I kept clicking on mine for testing.. etc.

the only thing that happened was a big fat 0 for my revenue. :)

lol
but the second day I did 1/2 'testing' and got some cents..

.. and increasing ever since.. :)

[Jesse_Smith]

I kept clicking on mine for testing.. etc.

the only thing that happened was a big fat 0 for my revenue.

lol
but the second day I did 1/2 'testing' and got some cents..

.. and increasing ever since..

I got a great testing idea just for you! Make a little page about viagra and another page about web hosting. Wait for the ads to show up and then spend all day and all night 'testing' them and then come back and tell us how it went and let us know if your still in Google after one business day!

For those of you in Rio Linda that havn't figured it out, testing will get you kicked out of the program.