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I refuse to check my Adsense performance

         

Edge

11:33 pm on Jun 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Here I am, out of town in a hotel with a high speed internet connection and, I am resisting the temptation to check my Adsense account performance.

It seems after reading all the reports of accounts being suspended I have been intimidated. In fact I refuse to even come close to a GG ad on my site with my curser.

This seems ridiculus...

europeforvisitors

12:06 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)



I routinely check my account from hotels, cruise ships, Internet points, and other public locations. Doing so has never caused any problems for me.

Unless you're testing the hotel PC's mouse speed by clicking on your site's ads, I don't think you have anything to worry about. :-)

blue_eagle

12:07 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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:)) if you have a very popular web site, you are right to be nervous, but as long as you clean the history of the computer (if it belongs to hotel) you dont need to worry i guess..

Or just be patient and wait until you go home :)

Jenstar

12:17 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have also logged into my stats all over the world, with one exception - while I was at the WebmasterWorld conference in Orlando - that one public computer was more or less a free for all for all kinds of activity ;) It hasn't been a concern anywhere else for me, though.

irock

12:28 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Edge,

Not sure if this is what you may want.

I use my PowerBook G4 all over the world to remote log into my Windows XP at home to check AdSense with Gotomypc.

A member suggested you use Proxy.

conroy

1:48 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If you use GoToMyPC to log in to your home computer, then does Google see the login coming from the IP of your home computer or your laptop?

Swash

1:58 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If you use GoToMyPC to log in to your home computer, then does Google see the login coming from the IP of your home computer or your laptop?

The home PC. You are remotely controlling that pc and there's no way for google to know that.

Visit Thailand

2:45 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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When I travel I also do not check my stats.

It is a nice break and also a nice (normally) surprise when you get back.

loanuniverse

2:54 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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You guys want to hear something funny, I was at a friend's workplace over the weekend working on an MBA project and I just went ahead and checked my account out of boredom. As soon as I hit the send buttom I though "geez this company has 600 employees sharing the same ip, what did I just do"

digitalv

3:00 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Why do people feel the need to check so often? Just leave it alone, you're either going to get a check or you're not. It's not like you can change the ads that are being delivered to your page anyway.

loanuniverse

3:13 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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actually if you run a third-party script, you can gleam interesting information regarding how much the clicks are paying if you get there early enough in the day. But now that they update a lot later in the day this is impossible to do. As of the last few days, it has been a bit depressing so I can go a couple of days between checks.

Working in front of a PC all day, one gets bored too.

ChrisKud5

6:22 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I travel internationaly way to much, 270,000 miles last year and more to come this year, and I have never once checked my stats from any hotels, airports, or on any aircraft equipped with Conexxion. Two weeks until the 19 hour flight from New York - Singapore, no stats or even internet for me for at least 19 hours................

I am not so concerned with the IP to one day click an ad, but creating a giant list of IPs on Googles side may not only look strange, but may put you into the "high maintenance" category.

I have two homes and I emailed adsense once and said I will be at this place now, here is the IP and the country specifics of where I would be, and Adsense sent me back a letter thanking me for letting me know and that it will be ok, as well as a little statement about how they discourage users from logging in from various IPs all the time. I see how this can pose a problem for dynamic IP folks out there, but I am not going to test their patience my logging in excessively to check things that can be checked when I get home. Looking at it daily is not going to make it grow any faster.

ExpLarry

8:30 am on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Why do people feel the need to check so often? Just leave it alone, you're either going to get a check or you're not. It's not like you can change the ads that are being delivered to your page anyway.

It's very important to do this to ensure a regular flow of data in and out of the googleplex. As any sysadmin knows, data channels which are not in use for longer periods of time degrade due to so-called "sticky bits" and broken-down TCP/IP packets originating from cheap ethernet cards which accumulate in the bends and at router connections. Therefore we can all do our part to keep google's network connections clean by frequently accessing different parts of the site.

;-)

europeforvisitors

3:39 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)



It's very important to do this to ensure a regular flow of data in and out of the googleplex. As any sysadmin knows, data channels which are not in use for longer periods of time degrade due to so-called "sticky bits" and broken-down TCP/IP packets originating from cheap ethernet cards which accumulate in the bends and at router connections. Therefore we can all do our part to keep google's network connections clean by frequently accessing different parts of the site.

Are we talking about computers or prostate glands? :-)

Macro

3:45 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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EFV, you've got TCP/IP packets in yours? ;)

richmondsteve

4:38 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

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irock wrote:
I use my PowerBook G4 all over the world to remote log into my Windows XP at home to check AdSense with Gotomypc.

I consider the fear some publishers have about checking their stats from multiple locations or from their dynamically assigned IPs to be paranoia, but for those who are looking for solutions here's another which I mentioned in the thread Logging into AdSense account remotely [webmasterworld.com]. And I didn't mention it in that post, but just about anyone with a cheap router such as any recent Linksys router can add Pentium II running a modern distro of Linux to their network, configure the router to route port 22 SSH traffic to it, use a free SSH client like Putty to connect to their home/office IP, then use a text browser like lynx to browse the web. No commercial software required, no monthly fee, just an 8 year old computer (well under $100 for all the hardware you'd need off of something like eBay including shipping) and a router you likely already have installed.

europeforvisitors

4:40 pm on Jun 17, 2004 (gmt 0)



EFV, you've got TCP/IP packets in yours? ;)

Not exactly, but the emissions are binary. :-)