Any serious Adsense publisher would tell you that the single worst thing that could happen to them is to have their account banished. The fear of the dreadful Google Ban has created paranoia, a fear of the Adsense ad, amongst the webmaster community. We have grown immune to the temptations of the “Free iPod,” hovering around every single Adsense block as if it were a mine field.

Not to mention the pact of silence, as any experienced webmaster knows the rules of Adsense go as follows…

1. Never ever click on your ads!
2. Never ever tell anybody that you even have a website!

I have seen many novice webmasters on forums repeatedly asking, “Will I be banned?” or the “Oh my God I think some one’s after me” theory, even though these are amusing it is not funny for the full time webmaster who makes more then 50% of his income from Adsense. I know of some webmasters that put in special proxies which disable their ability to click on their own ads (Learn more about this here).

So I have a suggestion to Google why not allow publishers the option to disable certain IP addresses from counting as paid clicks. StatCounter has this option for traffic stats why not Google. I think a move like that would not only help the webmastering community but would also greatly help Google Adsense as they would be reintegrating probably the most web-active group of people and maybe their most valuable commodity back into their targeted audience.