Firewall Blocking Mfa's

What happens if the clickthrough is blocked?

[SkyDiveDad]

This may be a question that needs directed to adsense, but I thought I would see if anyone else here has experieced this.

I run my own server, and have sites that I've chosen to block from the accessing the site entirely.

If the blocked site is later displayed through adwords and a visitor clicks on the link, my firewall maybe blocking it.

How does this affect the process? CTR? Smartpricing?

Is this seen as an invalid click?

[barns101]

If I understand you correctly, you are blocking other sites from accessing your site(s), and your firewall can't block users from clicking on an add on your site and visiting a blocked site.

[SkyDiveDad]

I guess I should have worded that better. I'm blocking Ip addresses.

As an example: I'm blocking an Ip range that I know goes to widget.com

The firewall log shows that everytime widget.com has tried to access our server, it's been successfully blocked.

Now out of the blue, I have a new log entry that shows a blocked TO widget.com

The only way I know of that links going to widget.com can get on our site at this point is by being displayed through adsense.

*side note here: to remove the stress of "what happens when I click on my own ads".. I've installed a script that doesn't allow anyone on our intranet to see the ads at all. So I don't know 100% for sure if widget.com was/is being shown with adsense.

[barns101]

The ad link itself is hosted on Google so I don't think that your firewall will a) stop ads from the blocked site; or b) stop someone successfully clicking on the ad and visiting the site.

[jomaxx]

If someone clicks on an AdSense link it does not go through your server, so this is not an issue.

[SkyDiveDad]

Thanks barns101 and jomaxx, thats what I wanted to know.