Because we closely monitor all account activity using engineering systems and thorough human analysis, chances are we've already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them. While these clicks still show in your reports, we filter out their associated earnings so that advertisers aren't charged. However, please keep in mind that we don't ignore the clicks completely; if it appears to us that a publisher has been clicking on his own ads to inflate his earnings or an advertiser's costs, we may disable the account to protect our advertisers' interests.
If you've been clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising on your site, we strongly recommend using the AdSense preview tool as an alternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks. You can also find more ways to view the URLs of your Google ads by visiting our Help Center.
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25 comments:
sometimes on my site i have genuine interest on ads on my site because i care about what my site is about i even bought things from my advertisers sometimes.
Mike is there a way I can contact you or anyone else in Google?
thank you for this post
thanks for this post , as i was afraid because in 7 month time i accidently clicked 2-3 time on my ads ........... this post info was a reilief to me
i just accidentally clicked on one of my ads..whew! what a relief.. thanks to this post.
I can't find a post on what to do if I clicked deliberately on ads on my free site for fun three years ago, and now want to re-join the program for a serious business :)
This is good news, because that accident just happened to me!
Thank you for this post.
If I have a BroadBand line but In my Office there is 3 Compters. Which are attatched by Single Broadband line but not connecting with Networking. Can my Partners click on my ads from other 2 Computers????
If I have 100 website, and i have a single google adsense account, if a person Click on each ads placed in my 100 website then It will be Count 100 Clicks or just 1?????? please answer me. Thanks a lot
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good work!!thanks!happy new year!!
my sis was stupid and went on like 5 ads on my blog will i get band?
I just learned how to generate the code and add to my sites and out of excitement and to see if my efforts paid off I clicked several times. Then after reading the policies I realized my mistake. I read a lot of what people are saying and now I am worried that my account will be suspended. I guarantee this won't happen again. Please let me know whats going to happen.
Thanks you for your time!
Yes, thank you. Our software people just inserted two more ad units and a graphic box for us to type on and insert pictures. Yikes, the new google insert at the bottom of the page I thought was a test post of a cartoon picture....realized too late when I clicked it was an advertisement!! I freaked out...so happy to see that once accidental click might send me Google hell!!! Thanks!
I was checking my website preview page and using my touchpad to advance the lines when I accidentally clicked on a weight loss page, certainly not out of interest my doctor wants me to gain weight. I'm glad Google's system understands these accidents, first time in the two years I have Adsense on the site. This'll teach me to fall asleep at the keyboard (uh, reading my own copy).
Thanks For the post, I Was just about to send a email as I accidentally clicked one ad. hit the keyboard with my hand on the mouse and clicked the button by mistake. Thanks for the help here. reassuring the Adsense publishers.
You guys don't know how glad I am to read this post... I went to panic mode after I accidentally click my own ad just minutes ago... Sorry Google, won't happen again... :(
They are good people at Google Adsense
i was just about to send them an email that i accidently clicked my ad..
good thing they posted this page here.. =]
LOVE GOOGLE!
oh ! thanks for the information . i just clicked on an ad by mistake and was panicking. this will give me relief. love u guys at google . bye .
I'm relieved to find this blog post as well. We just started installing Google Ads on our web site.
I've accidentally clicked ads a couple times. I had a video ad pop up, thought "Cool!" and clicked it...then went "Ahhh!"
I'm also previewing pages to see how the ads come up, so I've be reloading a lot of pages.
I am using statcounter and it showed that one ads was clicked accidentally in my session. Strangely, I did not notice or remember about it. It could be my mistake or statcounter report is wrong. I was going to email to google about this before I found this.
Thanks, this bring relief to me.
Hello anyone is clicking invalid in my site so how i block my ads to dont see who is click invalid plz tell me and if anyone is click invalid me not so the google disable the account plz plz help
It would be good to have a feature in blogger to disable adsense ads on your blog, when you login to your blogger account. This way chances of accidentally clicking on your own ads would be reduced.
We spend so much time on my blog everyday. It's very likely that we unintentionally click on our own ads sometimes.
yeah, i am new to blogging today. i just signed up. as a matter of fact, i only wrote the blog title with empty blog, because i don't know what to write. while on my profile, i click on view blog maybe four to five times only or maybe on some other ways. as i read the monetize which led me to adsense. i was told my account is disabled. i was shocked, i knew i applied for adsense twice and denied twice. i dont remember i applied for the third time. but was surprised that i was already disabled.
gosh....i was terrified. and very mad at myself.
i read and read through things just to get to adsense. i even wanted to appeal, that is how scared i am yet my internet is stuck up.
blessing in disguise. ;)
yet i didnt give up. until i ended up here. thanks for this post.
helps me a lot.
relief.
Leyen
Great to know that those accidental clicks will be ignored and discounted. I accidentally clicked on my ad a couple of times, and was worried that I'll get banned. Cool to know that it's alright, cheers
Good to know. It's been a long, long week, and I clicked on my own ad before my brain had a chance to register what I was doing (I badly need a vacation). My apologies.
And I think Brain Washer has a great idea.
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