I think I had a click on my own ad. I am afraid now. Will I be banned? It was just a result of a crazy click, i didn't do deliberately and most importantly I don't have adsense yet.
No, that won't hurt you. Even if you had Adsense, they write clearly on their website that they are aware that accidental clicks do happen. They do not want people to report such freak accidents, and would simply discard the click as invalid.
oh thanks God, I was almost going to cry out. My heartbeat isn't normal yet.
I hope you didn't do anything rash.. like throw the computer off a second story balcony or anything..
I think everyone's done it at least once.. no worries, mate..
thank you all, i was very afraid indeed. I wasn't even sure if i had done it or not. Suddenly I saw a pop up window and I guessed I might have clicked on of the ads and my breath was taken away.
I did the same thing, more than once. It is a frightening experience because of the terms and conditions, but then when you think about it it must happen quite often when people are editing their sites.
Google don't want an email for every accidental click - they would be swamped.
I've done this once! My laptop went crazy and when I moved the cursor it clicked on an ad. I was freaked out...but then I decided that accidents happen...and I knew I couldn't be the only one that has had their computer go wacko!
I'm sure they can see when people are doing this quite often verses one click during their whole history with them!
by Ghost32 14 years ago
I accidentally clicked on one of the ads on a Hub of my own tonight--did that one other time, more than a year ago (I think), and that time I went through the whole rigamarole of notifying Google what a bad boy am I. Since then, though, I seem to recall seeing a "post or three"...
by borge_009 13 years ago
What would I do? I accidentally clicked one of the ads when I was editing something. I did not clicked in intentionally.
by SPomposello 12 years ago
I was reading that Google will know if you clicked one of your ads from a different computer with a different IP address. For example, you go to work and go to one of your articles on your work computer and click an ad. It's the same as going to an internet cafe and doing it there, basically. I...
by Bill Manning 14 years ago
I have adsense on my own websites and get a check from Google every month. I noticed today that one single click got me $3.08! Is there any way to find out what type of ad it was that got clicked, even the exact ad? I have many that get me over a buck per click. It seems to come down to what your...
by Emily Tack 9 years ago
I know we are not supposed to ever click on links in our own hubs, or other people's hubs, either. At least that is my understanding. While I was putting a new photo up on one of my hubs, my finger slipped on the mouse, and off I went to the Amazon product I was linking to. Do I need to send an...
by Justin Aptaker 11 years ago
I just accidentally clicked on an ad in my own hub! Will Google Adsense ban me for one click?!I'm a little bit freaked out right now. I accidentally clicked on an adsense link in my own hub. Would Google ban me for that one mistake? Have other Hubbers done this by accident and their accounts been...
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