Are there any consequences since they aren’t the owner of the website? And does AdSense know the ip address of the clickers? This adsense business is confusing @_@
Google monitors ALL adsense clicks. They know who the abusers are and filter them. In other words, the clicks don’t convert to money. This is to stop a person opening a friend’s site to click ads. They know who repeat offenders are because every computer connected to the Internet has a unique IP address.
Google monitors the following,
1. If the clicks are from any intranet (your machines ip and its intranet ips)
2. If it is nearby internet cafe (your area)
3. Those clicks without any sign up with email ids
list goes …
If you stay in the honest path, there is nothing to worry about Adsense. But if you are thinking of using somebody to regularly click on your ads, then you have all the reason to be worried.
Google, with all their PhDs, knows all the tricks publishers have to cheat the program. They will track everything — IPs, patterns of clicks, where you actually log in to check your account, and many more that they will never disclose.
There will be visitors who will click on Google Adsense ads several times. But Google will look at the pattern to see if the clicks are geniune and comes from an interested user, or from someone merely interested in clicking for the publisher’s benefits. They have to see that it is the first one. Otherwise, if they see anything suspicious, they can send you the dreaded suspicious activity email, and you have to prove to them that it was not you who clicked on.
I have been with Adsense since June 2003, and never had any problem with visitors clicking on the ads. As long as you remain honest, there is nothing to worry about
May 18th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Google monitors ALL adsense clicks. They know who the abusers are and filter them. In other words, the clicks don’t convert to money. This is to stop a person opening a friend’s site to click ads. They know who repeat offenders are because every computer connected to the Internet has a unique IP address.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Adsense monitors all clicks
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
Google monitors the following,
1. If the clicks are from any intranet (your machines ip and its intranet ips)
2. If it is nearby internet cafe (your area)
3. Those clicks without any sign up with email ids
list goes …
May 25th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
If you stay in the honest path, there is nothing to worry about Adsense. But if you are thinking of using somebody to regularly click on your ads, then you have all the reason to be worried.
Google, with all their PhDs, knows all the tricks publishers have to cheat the program. They will track everything — IPs, patterns of clicks, where you actually log in to check your account, and many more that they will never disclose.
There will be visitors who will click on Google Adsense ads several times. But Google will look at the pattern to see if the clicks are geniune and comes from an interested user, or from someone merely interested in clicking for the publisher’s benefits. They have to see that it is the first one. Otherwise, if they see anything suspicious, they can send you the dreaded suspicious activity email, and you have to prove to them that it was not you who clicked on.
I have been with Adsense since June 2003, and never had any problem with visitors clicking on the ads. As long as you remain honest, there is nothing to worry about