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Numerous articles have been written about Adsense publishers becoming victims of click-bombing and having their Adsense accounts revoked with loss of all earnings. Although the Google Adsense team are very decent about reinstating your Adsense account if you reported suspicious activity, the cold fact is that even if they reinstate your account, you will lose any earnings prior to your account being deactivated.

I personally went through the horrible process of having my Adsense account sabotaged last year. Although I did report the suspicious activity and removed the Adsense code from the site that was under attack, the Adsense support team never responded to my report of suspicious activity and two weeks later I received the dreaded email that my account had been banned by Adsense. I appealed the banning, fortunately I had kept records of the sabotage incedent and eventually my Adsense account was reinstated - MINUS all my earnings for two months. Remember, Adsense pays the *month after* you reach $100 and I was clearing $100 per month for years so I actually lost two months of earnings.

As a precaution, I have been checking out a number of solutions to prevent invalid clicks and one of the software solutions I’ve been considering purchasing is Adsense Click Lock.

Here’s some of the details from their sales page…

Maximum Adsense clicks You can select any number from 1 upwards. For each visitor to your site, this is the maximum number of Adsense ads that he or she can click on. Once a visitor has clicked on this number of ads, your Adsense ads are automatically hidden from that visitor. Maximum Page Views This feature provides a secondary protection mechanism and it is strongly recommended that you use it. You can select any number from 1 upwards, but a typical value is 3 to 5. For each visitor to your site, this is the maximum number of page views on which Adsense ads will be shown. If a visitor views more than this number of pages, your Adsense ads are automatically hidden from that visitor. Timed Adsense Ads Hiding You can have the ads hidden for an hour, 3 hours, 12 hours, a day, 3 days, 7 days, 15 days, 30 days or forever. The default is 3 days, which is generally more than adequate. This means that if a visitor returns to the site any time within 3 days of the ads being hidden, the ads will still be hidden. If they return to the site after 3 days, the ad click and page view counters will be reset - and Adsense ads will be visible again. Replacement Ads The software allows you to replace up to 8 Adsense ad blocks. To enter a replacement ad, select the number using the drop-down box, then type or paste the replacement ad into the large text box. To paste, right click inside the large text box and select “Paste” from the menu.

If anybody reading this article has had experience with this software and can offer an opinion about it’s usefulness, please leave a comment to this post because I’m certain there are many Adsense publishers out there who would find this solution very useful.

Happy Publishing,
Dave

Tags: Google, Adsense, Banned By Adsense

         

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1. Adsense Click Lock - Don’t Get Banned by Adsense on June 2nd, 2008

   […] QuickOnlineTips wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNumerous articles have been written about Adsense publishers becoming victims of click-bombing and having their Adsense accounts revoked with loss of all earnings. Although the Google Adsense team are very decent about reinstating your … […]

2. Sean on June 12th, 2008

   Dave you’re a life saver! I actually saw some suspicious activity on one of my websites and was looking for something exactly like this, and for the price; you really can’t beat it!

   Thanks Again,
   Sean

3. content generator on June 24th, 2008

   I’ve gone through many Adsense accounts in my day….I’ll check out this Click Lock program. Thanks for the tip.

4. Stair lift on July 2nd, 2008

   Don’t we have different options in forums and blogs? I have used an add-on for smf forms which provide many options for Google Ads. I am sing “ALL IN ONE YPN ADSENSE” for my WP blogs. Fortunately I haven’t gone through any of that situation till now but I am considering your suggested script.

5. Dave on July 6th, 2008

   What is the add-on you have for SMF that does what this software does? I’d be curious to know because I have several SMF installs.