Tip for avoiding invalid AdSense clicks

[Numbat]

When setting up one of my sites, I accidentally clicked on one of the ads. I wrote to Google to let them know about it, and they told me about this little gem:

google_adtest='on';

Insert that into your Adsense script section and you won't record any clicks or impressions. If you know about scripting (either client- or server-side), you could pretty easily put it in a conditional statement that checks if the IP address is your test machine.

Hope it's useful.

 

[tmoney]

wow - never heard of that. thanks.

 

[Jdog]

That is crazy, all you see on sites like DP and SP is people getting banned for clicking their own ads and I have never seen this before.

Good find and thanks.

 

[DruSam]

Wow, nice. Countless adsense newbies will be saved now! Rep for you buddy.

 

[Juicify]

I knew about it already and thought most people did, but great you gave this tip away! as most people apparenty didn't know about it.

 

[Jon]

+rep for this one.

 

[zompus]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[deronsizemore]

So where would I add this? I didn't think you were allowed to alter the code?

 

[weneedsound]

In addition, You can also change your pub id to '[SIZE=-1]pub-googleIamTesting' while aligning those images next to your links.
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[juniodude]

Also guys, if you use firefox and have greasemonkey(a plugin,...easily installable, just if you want to install or not) then there is a script to prevent your click on your adsense for following through. http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/adsense-prevent-clicks/