Adsense and frontpage.

[lost as always]

I run a small site and use adsense in hopes of recovering hosting costs, etc. I have started getting more serious about it and have gone from getting a check every 6 months to every 3.

Currently I am changing the layout of my site, partly for adsense. Mainly so it fits in better and doesnt distract as much as it does now.

Obviously by the title I use frontpage. Every time I start messing with pages in frontpage I notice my clicks have gone up. All within normal click range to be sure but I am worried if I am generating them somehow by using frontpage.

It might be the new layout, it is a huge step ahead from the past one. I dont know is the point. Can it be something I am doing in frontpage?

Before anyone even asks, I do not click my ads, I dont ask friends and family to click my ads. I dont talk to people about my ads.

Any suggestions?

[lost as always]

Just to be clear, I never use the automatic verify hyperlinks or anything else. I will "preview" a page and then upload it. I haven’t used the verify portion just because of the concern of setting adsense off, however unfounded it may be

[Tropical Island]

I have been checking with George Bray, owner of Link Alarm and this is what he has told me (paraphrased):

Yes, the whole area of false ad clicks is important. As an automated checking engine all we can do is respect the robots.txt, and in most ad servers environment this works correctly to keep LinkAlarm away.

In the case of google syndication, LinkAlarm doesn't even get the ad block of HTML because it doesn't execute the javascript (like a browser) to determine the HTML page being checked. It verifies the existence of it (http://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/conversion.js) but does not execute it to get your ad links.

Even if it did execute it, or the HTML was just copied into the page, google's robots.txt prevents us from following the links and falsely ticking ad counters.

Hope this solves the auto link checker clicking ads theory

[incrediBILL]

google's robots.txt prevents us from following the links and falsely ticking ad counters

Robots.txt only works when the crawler follows the rules - his does, maybe the scrapers doesn't - it's quite the joke really.

[Tropical Island]

- his does, maybe the scrapers doesn't -

One would have to assume that AS has some way of spotting bots - especially as this issue hasn't been brought up before (in my time in this forum).

There are so many of them flying around the Internet that this would be logical.