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Can Google see the diference of click from private IP's

[linuxguy]

What happens when you have a network with one Public IP address as a gateway and a network of hundread's of PC's on private IP's.

I'm thinking on adding adsense to the homepage of my university. What worries me is the fact that for Google all the clicks will be coming from the same IP.

Does google have a way to tell that the click are actually being generated by differents PCs? Should I take the risk?

[JinxBoy]

I have a similar problem.

I have adsense on a Cycling Prediction game website with almost all dutch-speaking members. 15% of my members are university students, 97% of those come from 2 big universities in Belgium...

I'm also very scared, but we'll see what happens... As my site also gets lots of other visitors, (from 2 different providers only, actually, Telenet and Skynet ADSL) i hope there will be no trouble...

[tombola]

JinxBoy, I went to the site in your profile and it seems you are refreshing the page every 15 seconds, so that new Adsense ads appear every 15 seconds. I guess you do this on purpose (to decrease your CTR?)...

[jomaxx]

linuxguy, you're add AdSense to the homepage of your university? How did you get permission to do this?

... in answer to your question, I'm sure they do have SOME ways but it could conceivably cause problems, especially if you also manage your account from the same IP block.

[anallawalla]

Interesting thread. The only pages I can see from .edu sites with Adsense are pdf files and every one of them was built without hyperlinking enabled. Perhaps the same pages are available on intranets as HTML.

I can't see a problem if the university gives written permission e.g. a marketing assignment about online advertising or a term project could qualify. The student site would then need to be accepted by Google.

I'd be surprised, though, if a uni would allow ads from competing institutions on its home page. Never mind Google's rules.

[Powdork]

You could get an adwords account, buy only the university's name, and advertise your keggers on the uni's homepage.:)

[markus007]

There is only one way google could prevent fraud completely depending on how concerned they are about privacy issues. They could read the mac address of your network card.

[Noel]

There is only one way google could prevent fraud completely depending on how concerned they are about privacy issues. They could read the mac address of your network card.

There are plenty of small aps to fake an other mac address for a network card.. So it's no way near preventing fraud this way!