I just posted a GID Community blog entitled: AdSense, now you can click them on your site.


Please let me know what you think.

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I think its an interesting idea, especially if you do a lot of work on your sites and are always afraid of clicking on an ad by mistake. Will you be releasing more details on how you implemented this?

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Me, I got tired of writing to them everytime I (accidentally) clicked on AdSense ad here. It didn't happen very often - maybe 3 or 4 times in the last 2 years but still, it bothered me tremendously that I needed to explain/apologise at all.

To answer your question: yes, I will be adding to this article soon.

I already have the one detailing the 2 custom PHP functions written but unpublished. I am going to write the one about "setting the cookie" next. Once that is done, I will publish both at about the same time.

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I would also be very interested in the follow up to this J.

This may be the dumbest question ever, but keep in mind that I am new. How does adsense know that you have clicked on an add on your own site? Is it by IP address, cookie or what? I guess I am not fully sure how they track this.

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I suppose they (Google) use all the obvious data (IP, cookies etc.) to keep track of who is clicking what where.

They could also be checking your referrers, i.e. how are people reaching the page (on your website) just before they clicked an ad.

The important thing to remember is that they are experts at collecting data; it's what they do - so whatever you can think up, they probably already know about it.

Whatever they know, they're not telling - which means everything I just said is pure assumption on my part.

Whatever... I try not to concern myself with how they know what they know; which is why I came up with this idea in the first place.

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very interesting
thanks for sharing.... ;-)

Adsense doesn't usually know who clicked it, it just has a tab counter. Each IP can click it 8 times in one day I belive. If someone clicks an ad more than 8 times I belive Adsense suspends for 24-hours.

I'd be interested to know where you got this information from. Nothing like this is mentioned in their programme policies... except:


I highlighted the relevant bit.

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Well, it's just a theory. I was clicking my own ads like a mad man one day and they just stopped calculating money. And I know someone who works for google that told me something like this.

I just recently got involved with this program and there is that little thing about the self clicks. Conceptually, I understand the reasoning. Clicking your own ads like a monkey on their 3rd pot of coffee does violate both the letter and spirit of the law. But why, since they can obviously tell when you click your own ad, don't they just say,

"Oh, it was you, click_total-- ."

It just seems odd that by being a publisher you are taken out of the potential revenue pool for the reasons the ads are there in the first place. So you can follow along to some place you might spend some amount (even if it is just more clicks on someone else's site) while you are there.

Unless I am missing something basic that is. Wouldn't be the first time.

Mark

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