What happens if you accidentally click on your own adsense ads? Happens sometimes when pages aren't loading properly.
You are playing with fire, especially if you are new to adsense.
Long term users with thousands of clicks in their history probably are safer as the dodgy clicks are such a small percentage.
If you are just starting out and two of your first five are suspicious you are likely to risk losing your account.
Make sure none of your friends try to "help" you by clicking ads. Many have been banned because of such helpers.
You just have to believe that Google are 100% on top of analysing clicks! - don't do it.
Sometimes I want to see what 'my' ad's are saying.... just go click it somewhere else to find out.
I agree with mcbean as well, play it VERY safe.
John
You are talking about accidental click,I guess even a single accidental click needs to avoided,yet if it happens only once unintentionally, then nothing will happen.More accidental clicks means Google will put you on suspicious account list and in the end you lose your account
A single click every few months is okay, it's pretty obvious when clicks are accidental.
However everytime you make an accidental click, Google have to consider whether you are,
a) Doing it on purpose
or
b) Whether it's worth the negative impact your accidental clciks have on the advertisers, compared to the benefit you bring to the Adsense program.
by Kerry43 15 years ago
Oops... I accidentally clicked one of the adsense ads on my own hub. I know someone else must have done this and already asked the question, but I think the panic is making me blind since I can't see it anywhere.Should I expect google to zonk me or are my own as only seen by others.Thanks:)Kez
by nakmeister 14 years ago
I have absolutely no intention of ever doing so, but has anyone any idea what does count as click fraud? i.e. 1 click, 2 clicks or lots? I can imagine it isn't that difficult if you do adsense long enough to at some point accidentally click on one of your own ads then your future earnings could be...
by Hollie Thomas 13 years ago
I checked my adsense account today not expecting to see anything other than: Earnings £0.00, and low and behold there it was, my first adsense click. I now have the grand total of £0.07 pence which is roughly about 13c. Whooo!!!
by nate5050 14 years ago
I have 90 articles on 3 accounts. I went from earning $7-$10 per day last month to just pennies per day since the start of this month. I'm hoping its due to the holiday weekend, but wow what a drop off. Has this happened to anyone else? Was there another update or something?
by midnightauthor 16 years ago
If I get a click on a Google ad on one of my hubs, does it reflect immediately on my Adsense report page or is it held by Hubpages until the end of the month or thereabouts. Just curious because I am getting a lot of page views and no clicks.
by Louie Jerome 15 years ago
I have been a bit puzzled about the way Google Adsense pays. There is reference to page impressions and clicks. I know that clicks get paid for at various rates, but I am not sure about impressions. Does the number of page impressions bring in any revenue. For example, some of my articles get...
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