Beware of AdSense!

Emil at 5:23 am on Tuesday, November 29, 2005

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.

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5 Comments »

Comment by szehau

Hi,

The picture is really funny! As a publisher that use Google Adsense, we all have the Google Ads paranoia. Anyway, I have a simple soultion for it here. :)

December 6, 2005 at 12:02 am

Comment by Zam

Man, I really don’t like the Google Adsense. If someone clicks on your ads more than once they call if fraud. That is why Yahoo! is now what I use for ads, Yahoo is great.

December 11, 2005 at 3:01 pm

Comment by Liberty

Yes, quite the amusing picture. We’ve recently become victim to the adsense regime of automated responses. Apprently there was something called g2g sharing that had the same problem. www.bonemicrosoft.com has had ads disabled to it, even though it complied with the requests (you can check out the dialogue between adsense and us there). I was truly astonished at the lack of concern google has for it’s customers. It’s almost like they don’t realize that it takes adertisers AND publishers to make this scenario work.

December 16, 2005 at 9:38 pm

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May 26, 2006 at 11:52 pm

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Comment by AdsenseAreCunts

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August 30, 2008 at 8:25 pm

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