Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues I can.
In September 2005, just accepted into the AdSense program, and brand new to Internet advertising, and out of passion, enthusiasm, naivety, and ignorance that clicking on one's own ads was not permitted, I clicked a few times on ads that were appearing on my site.
I did this clicking out of interest and to evaluate as to what was at the sites that the ads represented. One of the functions of my website, and my role related to the site, is to evaluate just such sites as to their usefulness to accountants. I was truly interested in the websites being advertised, for the information that was at the sites.
Twenty days after being accepted into the AdSense program I was disabled, for life, for a mistake I did not know I was making, one I believe is understandable, and one that I would have quickly stopped if given a warning, such as an email. I should have known, I guess, that I was not suppose to be doing what I was doing, but I didn't.
I apologized, pleaded, tried to explain, begged - all to be re- admitted into the program, but to no avail.
> The AdSense Preview Tools is for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x users > only, your help entry states -- what about Firefox users (e.g. an > extension)?
usually right-clicking the ad and displaying properties (IE6 & 7 anyway) shows the complete destination url for text ads.
Image and Video ads, on the other hand, contain encrypted info and make it impossible to determine the destination url without clicking the ad. The preview tool doesn't seem to show video or image ads either.
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
My concern is not with accidental clicks as I know better than do that, but my biggest concern is with an unusual number of impressions that can be created while editing my site. I would hate to banned for doing updating and maintainance on my site. How critical is Google about page impressions?
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
yes right, during the developement of a website it could happen that you click on your own ads. Most of all if some scysraper ad is aligned to the right (near the scrollbar). I'm very happy with this statement from Google Adsense!
Just got a message from AdSense saying they understand that sometimes people do accidentally click on the ads, and there is no neccessity of reporting a few invalid clicks as AdSense have sophisticated tools to detect invalid clicks and deduct that and don't charge the advertiser. A very reassuring message. However, from some messages on this board, things don't seem to be so rosy judging from the no, of people getting their account suspended. Previously it was easy to contact AdSense Help and you normally get a prompt response. Now if you try using their contact form, you get taken on a merry-go-round.
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
I personally find products that are advertised that I may actually buy or at least have an interest in them. Gut in order to protect my adsense account I do not click on these adss that I am genuenly interested in and I don't think it is fail to the publisher to take advantage of looking at an ad. Too bad there is not a system in place where I could Identify myself as the publisher so that I do not make any money by clicking on the ad and the advertiser profits. I know there are plenty of publishers that think that ad is really interesting but since I don't want to lose my adsense account I may lose out on the best deal. And I find that pretty much sucks. If you could include the URL for us Mac pblishers then we could copy and paste the URL and not miss out on offers and the advertisers wouldn't lost ad revenue and might just get more customers.
Well this is good to see. I am a big believer with Adsense and personally love the program. When using Frontpage when you check in the browser and press ok there is invariably an adsense ad underneath that gets a click. I have since learnt to move the page underneath before clicking. Now all we need is for the team to accept that we advertisers do get an individual who will go out of his way to generate clicks on our pages to get us banned. I would love for this to be included here and for that person who does the clicking to be banned. In this case I believe rather than be suspended that an email advises us the program has been temporarily suspended and the account remains active until the offender is blocked. Having Adsense and working so hard to promote it with a threat of termination always hanging over our heads is a very trying time.
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
> lose out on the best deal. And I find that pretty much sucks. If you > could include the URL for us Mac pblishers then we could copy and > paste the URL and not miss out on offers and the advertisers wouldn't > lost ad revenue and might just get more customers.
The URL of the site is at the bottom of the ad. All you need to do is to open Notepad, minimise it so that you can type and look at the URL at the same time. Type the URL, copy, paste into the address bar and you need not lose anything.
What I am more worried is AdSense assuring that they have sophisticated tools to weed out invalid clicks and yet publishers are being suspended for invalid clicks. If they can so easily identify invalid clicks, why not just not credit the earning? Why subject publishers to possible sabotage?
HI I am a neophyte online business owner and am slowly learning and understanding the process of setting up and linking to other online sites. Am I corect in understanding that we can not even click on our own ads, just to make sure we are setting up our site correctly??? thanks, cheryl
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
When I signed up with the email address [email address] I was approved and then disaproved. I think it was because of clicks on my ads. One of my grandchildren was looking at my site and clicking ads.
I immediately stopped him. However I think this is why my account was disapproved. I quit for a while, took down the site and just use the email address. I am writing on Blogger.com right now.
I am going to redo my site at ourownhomebiz and would really like to use Adsense for content and search on both sites.
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
I just read that too right before i came to this forum. I think its good now we dont have to be like totally scared to death if we have an accident. It happen to me when i 1st got started but they was so nice and said just try not to let it happen again and use preview tool ect.. but my click was just accidential i wasnt really trying to view the ads just happened when i opened the page. I remeber i was so scared to email google about it but so scared of what would happen if i didnt but i did and they was nice about it.. anyway im glad they posted that on thier forum cause really if your trying hard to do everything right and stay in tos and all its scary if you accidntly click an ad.
Google is very nice and fair and good you just have to play by the rules and see how forgiving they are if you make a ligitimate mistake..
I wish my romantic relation ships were as fufilling as my relationship with google lol
> When I signed up with the email address [email address] I was > approved and then disaproved. > I think it was because of clicks on my ads. > One of my grandchildren was looking at my site and clicking ads.
> I immediately stopped him. However I think this is why my account was > disapproved. I quit for > a while, took down the site and just use the email address. I am > writing on Blogger.com right now.
> I am going to redo my site at ourownhomebiz and would really like to > use Adsense for content and search on > both sites.
> Thank You > Carolyn Cornett > [email address]
> On May 24, 5:52 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > > I can.
Guys, don't even right click. Try to just read the url off the add. If that's not possible then look at the ad to determine the url. I've had a right click act like a left before and since stopped clicking what- so-ever.
Usually your technique will work, but just to make a technical destinction the display URL (the one seen below the ad) is not necessarily the Destination URL. Often an ad will have a very specific landing page, but will only display the popular domain name.
> > lose out on the best deal. And I find that pretty much sucks. If you > > could include the URL for us Mac pblishers then we could copy and > > paste the URL and not miss out on offers and the advertisers wouldn't > > lost ad revenue and might just get more customers.
> The URL of the site is at the bottom of the ad. All you need to do is > to open Notepad, minimise it so that you can type and look at the URL > at the same time. Type the URL, copy, paste into the address bar and > you need not lose anything.
> What I am more worried is AdSense assuring that they have > sophisticated tools to weed out invalid clicks and yet publishers are > being suspended for invalid clicks. If they can so easily identify > invalid clicks, why not just not credit the earning? Why subject > publishers to possible sabotage?
It seems that's possible for "Accidents happen". Another question is about adding page view. When update or edit web page, I will view some pages even if view same page many times. Will it be a problem?
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
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The preview tool is great... but I'm more concern on how to avoid other people mischievously clicking the ads on your site. These people do it either to revenge, or out of envy or maybe just for fun... and punishing the publishers for these acts is really not fair.
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
Hey, set your host file up so that the kids cannot see the ads on the computer they are using. Kids cant buy stuff, so it would be good that they aren't seeing the ads anyway. It wont hurt anyhody, just help.
> When I signed up with the email address [email address] I was > approved and then disaproved. > I think it was because of clicks on my ads. > One of my grandchildren was looking at my site and clicking ads.
> I immediately stopped him. However I think this is why my account was > disapproved. I quit for > a while, took down the site and just use the email address. I am > writing on Blogger.com right now.
> I am going to redo my site at ourownhomebiz and would really like to > use Adsense for content and search on > both sites.
> Thank You > Carolyn Cornett > [email address]
> On May 24, 5:52 pm, AdSensePro wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > > I can.
This same thing happened to me some time back, and there was no preview tool available. Clicks at my site were few and done by other people at the house where the site is hosted. No amount of explanation seems to help, nor the fact I've paid tons more to AdWords than I ever got from AdSense. My site is bigger now but struggling. There must be some sort of Google rehab program or something to get back in. Is there nothing? It's a total life sentence forever? It's clear this has happened to many others or this thread wouldn't exist. There must be some way to prove one's site is worthy. Mike from myallo.com
> Twenty days after being accepted into the AdSense program I was > disabled, for life, for a mistake I did not know I was making, one I > believe is understandable, and one that I would have quickly stopped > if given a warning, such as an email. I should have known, I guess, > that I was not suppose to be doing what I was doing, but I didn't.
> I apologized, pleaded, tried to explain, begged - all to be re- > admitted into the program, but to no avail.
> > The AdSense Preview Tools is for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x users > > only, your help entry states -- what about Firefox users (e.g. an > > extension)?
> This same thing happened to me some time back, and there was no > preview tool available. Clicks at my site were few and done by other > people at the house where the site is hosted. No amount of explanation > seems to help, nor the fact I've paid tons more to AdWords than I ever > got from AdSense. My site is bigger now but struggling. There must be > some sort of Google rehab program or something to get back in. Is > there nothing? It's a total life sentence forever? It's clear this has > happened to many others or this thread wouldn't exist. There must be > some way to prove one's site is worthy. Mike from myallo.com
> On May 24, 7:09 pm, richardtorian wrote:
> > Twenty days after being accepted into the AdSense program I was > > disabled, for life, for a mistake I did not know I was making, one I > > believe is understandable, and one that I would have quickly stopped > > if given a warning, such as an email. I should have known, I guess, > > that I was not suppose to be doing what I was doing, but I didn't.
> > I apologized, pleaded, tried to explain, begged - all to be re- > > admitted into the program, but to no avail.
> > > The AdSense Preview Tools is for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x users > > > only, your help entry states -- what about Firefox users (e.g. an > > > extension)?
> what will happen if click accident by my users? > you look athttp://posh.yoll.net > I see user click is accident because my adsense near link,
> On May 31, 12:30 am, lepton wrote:
> > This same thing happened to me some time back, and there was no > > preview tool available. Clicks at my site were few and done by other > > people at the house where the site is hosted. No amount of explanation > > seems to help, nor the fact I've paid tons more to AdWords than I ever > > got from AdSense. My site is bigger now but struggling. There must be > > some sort of Google rehab program or something to get back in. Is > > there nothing? It's a total life sentence forever? It's clear this has > > happened to many others or this thread wouldn't exist. There must be > > some way to prove one's site is worthy. Mike from myallo.com
> > On May 24, 7:09 pm, richardtorian wrote:
> > > Twenty days after being accepted into the AdSense program I was > > > disabled, for life, for a mistake I did not know I was making, one I > > > believe is understandable, and one that I would have quickly stopped > > > if given a warning, such as an email. I should have known, I guess, > > > that I was not suppose to be doing what I was doing, but I didn't.
> > > I apologized, pleaded, tried to explain, begged - all to be re- > > > admitted into the program, but to no avail.
> > > > The AdSense Preview Tools is for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x users > > > > only, your help entry states -- what about Firefox users (e.g. an > > > > extension)?
Also my account was disabled because of invalid clicks which i have never caused or told somone to do it for me so I have been trying to figure out where invalid clicks would come from. And I have finally know the reason why it was disabled after a thorough investigation.
The reason is that there may be thousands of computer using one single IP that is shown to outside world when they connect to the internet from their wireless internet connection that this network company sold to its customers in my country.
My website content is related to travel and tourism and where I live is a small island and there are many residents from all over the world and they look for hotel, car hire or related information using their internet connection which was bought from the same network company to find a place to stay for their relatives..etc
I have explained that to Google Adsense Team many times, and their reply was that "how ever I was disappointed with their decision they would not reactive my account..."
I wrote to Google Adsense Team the 4th times but had no result.
It's great and wonderful that there's a "preview tool" for IE6, but I'd love to be able to take advantage of the same tools while using my Mac. Granted, I could install windows in parallels, but that seems like over kill when a simple browser plugin could be created for, say, Firefox.
Finding and blocking urls is easy with the text-based ads, but those video ones, they're a little more difficult (actually, impossible).
I don't want to be flagged as a bad user when there's nothing I can do to avoid bad clicks.
Any ideas from the AdSensePro team? I mean, there's quite a few google products (google gears beta, for example) based on many browsers now, what's the deal with a new preview tool? Anything in the works? Even a hint?
> Our last policy blog post in the series is called "Accidents happen," > about accidental clicks on your own ads. Feel free to post any > questions or feedback here, and I'll check back and address any issues > I can.
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