Can you protect your account from your own clicks using this?

[netchicken1]

It just struck me that if you can put your url into the "Not allowed" section of your "Allowed sites" feature.

Then if you click on your adverts they will not be allowed...

Is this right? For people with a fixed IP it might be really handy, as well as people in internet cafes and networks.

[naitsirhc26]

I believe you could do this, but then NO clicks would be counted for your site no matter WHO clicks on the ads. Is this what your goal would be?

Might be against TOS though; don't know if Google would still count it as an invalid click on your IP though.

[netchicken1]

But naitsirhc26 you don't want ANY clicks coming from your IP address. By you or any other person.

If you had a network and your site was on that as a home page, then blocking the network IP would protect you from all users of that network. Yet others on the internet would still be able to click.

You could also block your home IP and then click on your adverts as much as you liked without having to use the adsense tool.

It seems so obvious I can't believe no one hasn't thought of it before...

Isn't it the ultimate form of protection you could have?

[naitsirhc26]

So you are wanting to block a certain IP from viewing your Adsense ads? I thought the Allowed Sites featured just blocked certain websites from displaying your ads, not IP addresses. I may be wrong though.

Because if you were to not include your website in the Allowed sites list, then the Adsense ads won't display on that site. Because I don't think there is a NOT ALLOWED list you can maintain, I think there is only an area for ALLOWED sites to be listed.

Maybe I am just not understanding what your point is though. :-)

[netchicken1]

Your are right, we can't add to the "not allowed" side, only to the "allowed" side.

Darn that would solve so many problems, I never noticed.

[naitsirhc26]

Yeah, I guess you could do quite a bit with a list to NOT allow websites...but it probably has some implications to it for Google. (of which I can't think of right now)