Hub Pages ad clicking question

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   Ritsosposted 14 years ago

   I believe if we click our own Adsense ads or too many Hubbers do that then we could get banned by Google ..... Not advocating doing this with HP ads but wonder if the same applies to them too .... Certainly, we shouldn't click our own but hubbers are a legitimate taget audience for the ads too as long as it isn't abused .... any thoughts ?

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   WryLiltposted 14 years ago

   The staff have officially said that we should not click other hubber's adverts:
   
   http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/67737#post1483104
   
   It's against Adsense ToS to click your own adverts.
   
   As for the new Ad Program, this is an excerpt from section 9 of the Hubpages ToS:
   
   HubPages reserves the right to withhold payment from You if You have, directly or indirectly, engaged in activity that is deceptive or fraudulent in nature, as determined by HubPages in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, HubPages shall not be liable for any payment from the use of HubPages Ad Program based on: (a) any fraudulent or deceptive activities; (b) invalid activities generated by any person or automated means; (c) requests for end users to click on advertisements on Your Hub or repeatedly reload Your Hub to generate additional page impressions.

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      wizbitzposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I sometimes repeatedly reload my page when some of my images wont show, also when I edit an article it counts on my page impression.

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         habeeposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I was wondering about this, too. What if we're just editing??

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            Karandaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I have accidentally clicked on an ad on my own Hub while editing. Google added the cents but then deducted it a the end of the month.

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            WryLiltposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I think it's fine if it's just one or two page views per hub. However if you've viewed a hub say 30 times they might start to get a big suspicious, especially if it was in a short period of time.

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               Karandaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Definitely. Mine was a genuine, once off mistake.

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   Ritsosposted 14 years ago

   Thanks ... thought they would have covered themselves :-) .... I guess it's unavoidable but also a bit of a shame .. I;ve seen a couple of ads on people's hubs I was curious about but witheld so as not to 'hurt' them even though they were genuine .. still I guess computers can't yet tell our intentions ... and maybe a good thing too

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      WryLiltposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Most adverts display the website name on them - you can just type that into your browser.

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   gifty1posted 14 years ago

   Its very funny google deducted the money at the end of tghe month. It only means one  thing, google is thrifty.

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      wizbitzposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      lol

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   Ritsosposted 14 years ago

   Actually they say
   
   "requests for end users to click on advertisements on Your Hub"
   
   This indicates that if we encourage HP Ad clicks by Hubbers in the Forum or in Comments then we'll be 'punished' but it doesn't, to me anyway, indicate that we will be punished if Hubbers click on them unless for eg one hubber clicks a lot of them .. As long as it isn't abused, it would indicate that some clicks from Hubbers is acceptable and in payable and wouldn't be punished or do others read that differently.

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      Cagsilposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Read the whole sentence, and not just part of it.

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   darksideposted 14 years ago

   If you make it a habit to be clicking ads, and not even your own, don't be surprised if the Google Adsense Team disable your account.
   
   There's plenty of people who have been banned and they have no idea why, but they never consider the ramifications of their own clicking patterns.

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