OK guys. I think I am going to loose my Adsense Account. I was always paranoid about it, and so, when I started my site WiseTome, I saw to it that before even I put Adsense on it, I have somethings to monitor what is going on. I even set it up so that it gets disabled whenever I log in - that way, I do not click on it by mistake. But I never really thought of what use it would really be even if I get to know there have been unnatural clicks on the Adsense ads. I was going through the logs and this is what I found out:


IP1 and IP2 are actual IPs, but I have not put them due to forum policies.

As you can see these are continous log entries into the adsense click logs.

Thats it I think. I am a goner now. I need to look at other options of monetizing from ad-space on my site.

Write back to Google immediately with your log - telling them someone's trying to get you out of the game

It works.. if you give them the logs. Also, make sure you ban that IP from your cPanel.

Just write to Google and see what they've got to say. Worst comes to worst, you'd loose it anyways - so why not give it a shot ?

I did that just now.

miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG, I think I was doing that when you were typing the post. I just wrote to Google Adsense with all the logs, and explained to them that I had no intent of doing any foul play. I am not even sure who did it.

First I had doubts that it was because of my collegues who browsed my site sitting behind a proxy. But I am not sure. That IP in the 'IP' heading or the 'host' heading matches our proxy. It definetly must be some one who either did not know what he was doing, or someone who knew a lot more than that and systematically went <- snipped -> (I mean, I am not sure, but can someone be dumb enough to go on clicking systematically on all ads thinking those are links going to internal webpages? ).

As you say miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG, worst comes worst, it definetly is worth a shot.

Huh. Anyway, do you have any idea of which other Ad-Providers I can try? I may use them at begining, but in the near future, I am thinking of directly selling the spaces to advertisers.}

This post has been edited by Vyoma: Jul 6 2006, 05:15 PM

I would like to know, how to add google adsense on my website and is there any benefit ?
do they really pay you?

I heard that they pay some cents for each thousand clicks ! So, you must have a very interesting site, visited by a lot of different people, in order to have enough money for having a coffee !

That is if you are displaying pay-per-impression ads. Those are put on web sites with a lot of traffic. On the other hand, there are pay-per- <- snipped -> You get some money every time someone clicks on them.

BTW Vyoma, what have you been using to create that log? I find that to be a very useful tool. Or is it something already provided, but I don't know about it?}

The logs that I have used is due to a module in Drupal. It is called the Adsense module. It places ads. After few configurations, you can have it record the clicks on the ads. The logs are stored in the database, and so, I do not think that creating such a log would be quite cumbersone as one would face if one is writing to a file. I get it neatly inserted to the database table, that is retrieved through a query or something like that.
I studied the code of the Module and it not anything that can be considered as rocket science.

If you want to have a look, try the following URL: http://drupal.org/project/adsense
You can driectly download it from this URL: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/pro...se-4.7.0.tar.gz
Once you unzip it to the folder, check the adsense.module file. It is a PHP and should open in any text editor. Then, if you know PHP, you should be able to see how the clicks are tracked.

Well good luck with that...

I would like to try AdSense in the future, but first I would like to build my site and get higher traffic.

Also, I have heard many negative stories about the service... Maybe by the time I start it, there will be a more secure system in place. It seems too easy for someone to sabotage your account by clicking your ads.

I have suggested to the Google people that they can wire it into the system so that when someone clicks on a ad from a particular ad unit, it should be turned off for that IP for a particular amount of time. Even if it is not turned off, the click should not be awarded by any monetary gains. That way, both the advertiser does not loose money, and neither does a Publisher get accused of foul play when a rival does such an act.

I am not sure if Google would act on this, but it seems logical to me. On the other hand, who am I to say? I do not even know the amount of resources such a system would consume and is Google capable of doing it.

This is called brain-storming, and your suggestions are really excellent. So far as implementation goes, it is completely upto Google. The matter must be brought into Google's notice as anyday anybody can be a victim of someone's foul play. So, Google must resist such act.

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Anyway, one more question to know, have you been paid by Google for those clicks?

This post has been edited by sid.calcutta: Jul 7 2006, 08:09 PM