Our team realizes that last week's policy blog post raised a lot of questions, so this week's post, entitled "A clarification on accidental clicks" hopes to clear up some of the confusion.
> Our team realizes that last week's policy blog post raised a lot of > questions, so this week's post, entitled "A clarification on > accidental clicks" hopes to clear up some of the confusion.
I never thought about the potential for accidental clicks, but after reading the post I understant a bit more about the potential. I've put more distance between my navigation and adsense code. I thank you for the clarification. MartyB
> Our team realizes that last week's policy blog post raised a lot of > questions, so this week's post, entitled "A clarification on > accidental clicks" hopes to clear up some of the confusion.
I wonder why a site i reported that was able to change the font styles of his adsense wasnt banned? His looked like the first pics on the left but mentioned nothing about ads and his fonts for the title were bigger like it was another link on his site....Adsense just said that it was confidential.....so I guess its ok for some and not others.... jason
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I appreciate the updates. I am concerned, however, about this policy regarding drop-down navigation menus, used by many individuals. The fact is that the browser itself possesses drop-down navigation menus that could easily be accidentally clicked on - there's no way around it, even if you put your ads at the bottom of your site. As you scroll down, they will be at the top, and the browser's drop-down menu will cover them up the same as the example you give. I refer, of course, to the File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tools and Help menu at the top of the Firefox browser, or the comparable arrangement on IE, Netscape, etc. If we are to avoid having drop-down navigation menus competing with the ads, we simply cannot have the ads on ANY part of the page, because the browser itself possesses such menus!
I hope Google will reconsider this policy, for the above reasons.
> Our team realizes that last week's policy blog post raised a lot of > questions, so this week's post, entitled "A clarification on > accidental clicks" hopes to clear up some of the confusion.
ACS, you've raised a good point but I think there's a world of difference between browser menus and any menus that might appear on a site.
Firstly, browser menus are initially called by clicking *outside* of the active site window, a miss to the left or right will just open a different menu (or do nothing). Secondly, browser menus are consistent in their operation and appearance in a way that matches all other applications running on that platform. There should be very little 'unknown' about a browser menu and users are far less likely to have difficulty picking the option they want since it's a commonly encountered function and system menus of this type are quite 'user- friendly' in their selection areas and styles.
Drop-downs within sites offer no such comfort of familiarity and start from within the site itself so even the initial click can be mis- directed. They can be all manner of sizes, shapes and colours, may have no consistent (or logical!) order or structure and could behave in an overly sensitive manner. My personal bug-bear is menus with fly- outs that require nanometer precision to hold the sub-menu you need and it is this inconsistency and flexibility that makes them (in my opinion) an entirely different prospect to browser menus.
> I appreciate the updates. I am concerned, however, about this policy > regarding drop-down navigation menus, used by many individuals. The > fact is that the browser itself possesses drop-down navigation menus > that could easily be accidentally clicked on - there's no way around > it, even if you put your ads at the bottom of your site. As you > scroll down, they will be at the top, and the browser's drop-down menu > will cover them up the same as the example you give. I refer, of > course, to the File, Edit, View, Go, Bookmarks, Tools and Help menu at > the top of the Firefox browser, or the comparable arrangement on IE, > Netscape, etc. If we are to avoid having drop-down navigation menus > competing with the ads, we simply cannot have the ads on ANY part of > the page, because the browser itself possesses such menus!
> I hope Google will reconsider this policy, for the above reasons.
> Thank you.
> On May 10, 4:31 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
> > Our team realizes that last week's policy blog post raised a lot of > > questions, so this week's post, entitled "A clarification on > > accidental clicks" hopes to clear up some of the confusion.
Sorry for any confusion, ACS, and thank you very much for your response, Jon.
What we're asking publishers to do is be aware of avoidable risks on their own sites. Browser menus will always exist, but you can choose not to place ads next to your site's navigation controls or other interactive elements because you know that users frequently click on those links and might click your ads by mistake in the process. An implementation doesn't have to be deliberately deceitful to lead to invalid clicks, so we're asking that everyone takes appropriate precautions to protect the interests of our advertisers, users, and their own accounts.
> Sorry for any confusion, ACS, and thank you very much for your > response, Jon.
> What we're asking publishers to do is be aware of avoidable risks on > their own sites. Browser menus will always exist, but you can choose > not to place ads next to your site's navigation controls or other > interactive elements because you know that users frequently click on > those links and might click your ads by mistake in the process. An > implementation doesn't have to be deliberately deceitful to lead to > invalid clicks, so we're asking that everyone takes appropriate > precautions to protect the interests of our advertisers, users, and > their own accounts.
I have read all the documentation surrounding "Accidental Clicks"
However, it seems to present a contradiction to its own Policy.
I'm quite puzzled.
In the true sense of "clicks" there's no such thing as accidental. They just don't happen, do they?
I do understand the "Policy" of what's being defined by Google as accidental clicks. And, I understand the diagram in the case of a pull-down menu not behaving properly, and causing an AdSense click when the reader meant to use the Pull- down. (Frequently happens because of poorly coded pull-downs)
However, I do not understand what criteria designates an "accidental click"
How do you know they're "accidental" ???
There are thousands of pages where NOTHING exists on the page EXCEPT Google AdSense ads.
According to Policy, those links should NEVER be clicked, because clicking thus would constitute an "accidental" click. So, why are there so many pages like that?
If someone happens upon one of those pages (A quite frequent occurrence) and then does click, thinking it's leading to authentic content, how does Google know that it actually should be classified as "accidental" ... or does it?
(Millions of these pages have been identified as the preferred technique employed by Domain Kiters for generating revenue -- even though they are in direct violation of Google's policy. )
There are dozens and dozens of "Directory" pages I personally have encountered that "look" like a directory page -- turn up in MOST Google searches -- but the listing consists of ALL AdSense links. I've reported a number of these to Google, but the sites stay around. I think they're even automated.
Someone clicks one of those links thinking it's a real web site, they have in fact "accidentally" clicked -- because there are no other links to click.
Then there are the pages that have multiple blocks of different kinds of Google AdSense link sets all clustered around the "TITLE" of the content piece so they occupy the ENTIRE arrival window... forcing the reader to scroll down the page in search of the content they came for. Clicking one of those links would not be what the reader wants to do, however, those clicks would probably not register as "accidental" ... would they?
Then there are the pages where somehow they've programmed the page to HIDE the "Ads by Google" marker -- and seem to "hijack" the search phrase, replacing the TITLE of the Google Ad with the searched-for phrase. So the reader thinks they've hit a gold mine of links to their search phrase -- when clicking any of them takes them to totally different web site content which is an AdSense link.
Those too should be considered "accidental" , right? Or, are they somehow allowed?
Can you help me understand the Google process of separating "accidental" clicks from "real" clicks.
i am new to this group..i have read about accidental clicks and invalid clicks....but this happend to me ...i can't belive this :(
i have join google adsense on 23th dec.2005 last 18 month i am very carefull about my account also i have right to google about ads tracking software that i have to use are not ...?....but google replay me Not to use any click tracking software as google said i am not using any software But last week on 6th may 2007 my account was disabled...:(
i ask one question if i want click on my ads why i have to wait for 18 months ? i am not involved in invalid click activity are any others activitys also i have dout on some ips referrers by google.com the ip s are 59.93.117.185 and 59.93.77.227
if this one happend to any one that s not good. i mean if anybody dislike You some one click s on your site and google will disabled account for advertisers then what you have to do ....simple sit down and relax and think about what u have done in 18 months just earn $62 work hard last 18 months and one day your account is disabled due to some one dislike you...
in this matter google will never help any one i know...but google have to think about this for those who are doing to make serious income take care of all those thing s
I am new at this group and I want to argue same thinks.
Ex.1. -- My computer is part of a network from 100 computers, and each computer have the same IP. It can be at the office, at home, etc. But work different people. It is big probability one of them to visit my site, and to make clicks on my google ads. Not because it is my site, and he want to help me to make money. In this case my account may be disabled. But it is not correctly. I respect the rules and term and conditions.
I propose: to create a rubric in each adsese accout and to put IP's from where do not count clicks, if someone will make clicks from this IP's. And the problems will be resolved.
> i am new to this group..i have read about accidental clicks and > invalid clicks....but this happend to me ...i can't belive this :(
> i have join google adsense on 23th dec.2005 last 18 month i am very > carefull about my account also i have right to google about ads > tracking software that i have to use are not ...?....but google replay > me Not to use any click tracking software > as google said i am not using any software But last week on 6th may > 2007 my account was disabled...:(
> i ask one question if i want click on my ads why i have to wait for 18 > months ? > i am not involved in invalid click activity are any others activitys > also i have dout on some ips referrers by google.com the ip s are > 59.93.117.185 and 59.93.77.227
> if this one happend to any one that s not good. i mean if anybody > dislike You some one click s on your site and google will disabled > account for advertisers then what you have to do ....simple sit down > and relax and think about what u have done in 18 months just earn $62 > work hard last 18 months and one day your account is disabled due to > some one dislike you...
> in this matter google will never help any one i know...but google have > to think about this for those who are doing to make serious income > take care of all those thing s
Being able as publisher to blacklist IPs or a hostmask would be a nice extra feature for adsense.
I'm not concerned about accidental clicks as it's common sense that you keep a distance between ads/navigation, having ads in seperate blocks etc... only those forcing adsense clicks should be concerned as they develop their web layout purely for clicks.
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