Clicked ads on your own Webpage? -The expected Google Adsense Publishers' mishap!

Today we are here to share few ideas and relevant information about the accidental clicking on ads on our self-monitored webpages, blogs, or a website.

As most of us are already aware of the regulations of monetizing websites, which clearly states that,

Clicking on your own ads will be considered as an attempt to inflate your earnings or an advertiser's costs, and your account may be blocked or permanently disabled for the same.

Today I did the same mistake. I accidentally clicked on the ads on the link bar on my own blog. Clicking on own ads is thousand times more disastrous when your Advertising Network is Google Adsense! Adsense team is too strict in handling such usual tricks by spammers.

While going through the search results on typing the keywords, ' I clicked my own ad', I found an a post on the official blog of Google Adsense, which was relieving!
This post was written a way back, in the year 2007, for those newbies and beginners on adsense, which accidentally click on their own ads mainly due to faults in their ad placement techniques.

Quoting from the Official blog -

As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are not permitted to click on their own ads for any reason. For this reason, we've received many emails from publishers letting us know that they've accidentally clicked on their own ads. If you're one of these publishers, we truly appreciate the efforts you've made to monitor your account and keep it in good standing. However, we do understand that an accidental click may occur from time to time, so there's no need to contact us each instance this occurs.

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.

Link : Accidents Happen!

 This post was their last, of the Policy Thursdays’ series for their Publishers in UK.


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