Like it or not, Google Ads are still the primary source of revenue for many of the blogs. I believe you are not an exception.
Google AdSense is the program that lets webmasters and bloggers (whom Google calls publishers) display the Google Ads in their websites or blogs. The good thing of AdSense is that it has a very strict program policy and the bad thing is that it has a VERY strict program policy.
No publisher is tolerated clicking the ads displayed on her page. Can’t imagine how the program could survive all these years, without strictly implementing these policy.
I bought a new notebook – MSI U135DX. Yes, I know, but I don’t have much money. And it is doing what I bought it for. And there is a lovely touch pad where you can move the mouse pointer from one edge of screen to the other in one drag without lifting your finger up. That’s great, isn’t it?
Touch pad are really DANGEROUS if you are surfing your own page and that page displays ‘Ads by Google’. I am an honest person. I hate people clicking their own ads. But it happened to me an accident. One click happened when I wished to move the mouse pointer. I was even more scared to think what if my wife or children opened my site?
Damn the touch sensitivity!
Ileane from BasicBlogTips once published a post on Redability Redux and we had a good conversation on Ad Blockers and the impact. Web readers love NO Ads, publishers want MONEY and advertisers wish Ads EVERYWHERE. A perfect balance should be the effort towards, but this is not my topic right now.
Well, Google Ad clicked unintentionally. It was a sheer accident. What will happen? Will Google ban me? All these effort of over 5 years vanish for nothing? This is an unforgivable sin for Google! What should I do?
I won’t repeat the mistake again, not even in an accident. But how?
NoScript plugin. Yes.
You can find an add-on for your Firefox and chrome called NoScript. That disables all of the scripts on a page. You can enable scripts if you require by clicking on the NoScript icon and choosing Allow. Otherwise all of the scripts are blocked whether Ads or any other.
Now, I have installed this plugin and Daniel, I hope I can go to bed calmly now
Now I believe NoScript is a must for publishers and no READER should know this. Keep it secret
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I remember that Google mentioned this problem in their TOS or somewhere that we don’t need to worry much about accidental clicks. They can track IP of this click and your Adsense account, if they are the same, the click will not be counted.
Therefore, our account will not be banned for just a few clicks of our own.
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Yes Tuan, I understand, a couple of accidental clicks won’t matter much and Google can track the clicks and analyze. But still, I won’t like to repeat the mistake that was prohibited by rule. Better stay safe, isn’t it?
I actually think it’s rather appalling that Google has such power over people. As much as I love what they’ve done for search (I’ve been online since before there WAS search) and freebies — I don’t like this level of power in one genre. (And I’ll never use Bing!, Microsoft has a history of abuse of power as well.)
If you base your internet earnings on AdSense, just note that they can cancel your account at any time for any (or no) reason — and keep your earnings to date. It’s in the fine print. Ugh.
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That’s why I started my post with Like It or Not. I guess Adsense is most probably the first step towards leaning online money. You are very true to say its appalling!
Thank you Alison for your input. Appreciate.
Your fear like any other blogger using google ads are real. It is always better to avoid all possible ways of self ad clicks. I hope the plugin works for other advertisers too. Thanks for share, Suresh
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Hi Kavita! It’s good to see you rising up in blogging. Wish you best of luck.
And thanks a lot for the comment.
I am always afraid that I will accidently click my AdSense ads so I modify my template to ensure it doesn’t happen. When I am logged into my blog and visit a post, I will see a graphic in place of the actual AdSense box. When I am not logged in, I will see the AdSense ad unit. Since I am usually logged in, I don’t need to worry about click an ad.
The code is something like this:
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
... display AdSense ...
} else
... display graphic ...
}
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Thank you Salmon for the input. This is another great idea to protect but for bit more experienced bloggers who are not scared of editing the codes. There are some plugins to do this if they can’t edit code, isn’t it? Justin was referring to All-in-one-Adsense plugin in BlogEngage comment.
Thank you once again for the comment.
Where would you stick this? In the header? Just curious.
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As Tuan said, the Google is very smart now so accidentally clicks will not harm our AdSense account. However, it is always good to have a prevention system on our side.
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I took your words. My friends must be true when they say so. Thanks Dana for the comment.
I believe there is a wordpress plugin that prevents the admin of the blog from clicking on their own adsense ads by accident. That would prevent just this type of thing from happening.
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That’s right Richard. Thank you for the comment.se
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Hi Suresh,
I have done it once myself, while I was surfing and nothing happened. The main reason for that is, although Google told us that clicking on our own ads will result in permanent ban, they will never mind if we did it accidentally. Their team will always have an eye on our IP address.
Sathish
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Thank you Sathish for your concern. Certainly, Google is not that blind bot. Anyway, precaution is a must if you are using touch pad on your PC.
I’ve had adsense accounts cancelled and I never figured out exactly why. There is an appeals process but it is totally automated so it’s hard to find out exactly what is going on. The really annoying thing is that when your account gets suspended then all the money in your account is forfeit and any cheques that have been issued are cancelled. I was left $600 short of what I was expecting!
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Feels really sorry with your story. There are really a larger number of grumbles regarding the unfair banning from Adsense program. It might be because of the large number of publishers, Google is offering Ads to, it might not possible for them to reason well and terminate the accounts. Moreover many people do not read TOS and Policies, and when the try different thing, there might be mistakes unknowingly resulting to unfortunate termination.
Anyway, I’m using Google Ads in my sites for over three years and everything is smooth till today. But a kind of fear, the sense of insecure always prevail.
Thank you polly for your input to the discussion.
Hello Suresh,
Clicking on your own ad is certainly a sin punishable by ban. But google does make it clear that one or two clicks in a certain timeframe (I presume months) don’t count as being malicious but if that happens a lot you will certainly get a “friendly” email from google.
I don’t think that you should go as far as installing noscript to disable the ads on your website, because you have to see what ads are displayed on your website maybe you need to block some
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That’s true Alex, I need to see what ads are displayed on my site but I always can use just another browser for that. I use Firefox and Chrome. NoScript on one browser will work well I guess.
If Google sends friendly email, this is the best thing they could do. I’m happy
I understand one to two accidental clicks in months are not that devastating but how can I make sure that the other members of my family (including my children) do not browser my site and click the ads out of interest. That’s why I went that far up to installing NoScript on both of my laptops. Only one Firefox is there without that script. Trying to be more honest ? 
Suresh if all bloggers start using this addon. Then I don’t think so that any other blogger is going to earn anything, or is there any special option to block scripts from specific site?
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Usman, this is the question I often ask whenever there are some tools to wipe off the ads. But I guess it is not the bloggers and techies who click on the ads and on top of that protecting yourself from getting banned is better than getting less money, isn’t it?
If you got a blog about Optimizing tips like yours, then their is no normal person visiting your blog except bloggers.
so it will be a night mare for you…
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That’s true Usman but I don’t have Adsense Ads here
The sites where I’m having Ads is not about optimizing and tips 
thanks for all that ,i think Tuan said it correctly that Google is much wiser now so that no one can harm by just clicking
I don’t use addons or script blockers like this especially for sometimes helping some of the folks that I network with. Every now and then it’s alright to reward a person for their time and effort.
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I agree tony but I was talking about while browsing your own site.
Oh, yea, that would stink if you were to do that. But after looking at TS’s code, that may be the way to go. I don’t have problems with GA since I don’t bother with them.
Take care.
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I also clicked an ad my mistake a few days ago, but nothing happened. Is it possible that they will block my account when i will try to withdraw my earnings?
If anyone knows, please reply!
Thank you!
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Nobody can say exactly, but I hope one or two accidental clicks won’t harm that lot.
Hi Suresh,
Very good information, Our adsense account will be always in line of termination. We do no when it will get banned, it is always to take precaution to save our account from fraud clicks. I believe it is good to keep away adsense from any of the tech blogs, a tech blog income will come mostly from selling ad space or else by affiliate.
Moreover most of bloggers are pretty much aware about affiliate can fetch more money then adsense. I have almost removed adsense from my own blog.
There should be some other solution apart from the above to project from fraud accidental clicks.
Great Share looking forward for more
ya it also happned with me
but some accidental click are not minded
Just be extra careful i say. It should be strict and i agree with there policy otherwise you would see so many people doing the wrong thing and being silly with it. Anyway that’s my 2 cents. Keep up the good posts!
Cheers
Ryan
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Thanks Ryan for your take.
Accidental clicks can take away adsense account and this tools seems to be right option to avoid such clicks. Thanks for share.
I’ve experienced Google Adsense balances terminated and I never figured out exactly why. It has an is of interest procedure but it is totally automated so it’s difficult to find out there specifically what is happening. The truly frustrating factor is that Whenever your consideration receives hanging next all the money inside your consideration will be forfeit and any cheques which have been issued are usually cancelled.
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This is strange Abigail, but I have no idea. Did you contact Adsense support?
what happen if some one intentionally click several ads on our site ( 20 click at one time .
Google is smart enough to track those kind of mischief and the clicks are invalidated. Sometimes I see a number of clicks and earning $0.00. It must be the cases of those situations.