Regarding page impressions . . .

[dinrock]

I display a new image on my index page every 24 hours. By habit, I check my homepage each day (has a 120X600 skyscrpaper ad on that page) to make sure everything is in synch with the php script and will manually tweak or change a background color or that. Am I hurting myself by causing "false" page impressions by always looking at my page(s)? Or should there be an ridiculous number of page impressions from my IP before I really need to worry? Or?

[leadegroot]

One check per day?
No, I wouldn't worry at all!
If you do worry anyway, you can do things to stop you seeing the ads, such as:
* in php, wrapping the adsense call in code such as:
<?php if ('my.ip.add.ress'!= $_SERVER['REMOTE_ARR']) {?>
{adsense block}
<?php }?>
(obviously you replace the myapaddress with your ip address - if you don't know what it is you can find out at one of these sites: [google.com...]
* if you still run Windows, I am told there is something to set up involving putting 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com in your hosts file (I don't know what that is - try google)
both of these will stop you seeing your own ads :)