Lately, many blogs (including us) are facing this issue of being bombarded with invalid clicks on adsense ads – with an aim to get their adsense accounts blocked.
This activity is usually carried out by your rivals or those who are not happy with your existence, call it professional jealousy, personal grudge or any other possible thing.
So here are tips to track invalid adsense clicks, to make sure you are on safe side.
Frequently Monitor of your Adsense Account
- Make sure that you are monitoring your adsense account at least once a day, 3-4 times a day is even better.
- Keep a watch on CTR (Click through rate) – to make sure it’s around your daily average
- If your CTR goes significantly high, then it’s time to start worrying and to do the necessary to make sure you are safe.
Tracking Invalid Adsense Clicks:
If there’s an invalid click activity in your adsense account – there are chances that Google will suspend your account without asking you anything. You will be given only one chance to prove that the clicks were invalid, and didn’t originate from your computer or your friends’ computer.
Google may ask you for IP details or other logs that you may provide them in order to get your account reinstated.
We know that you have Google analytics installed but unfortunately Google Analytics doesn’t provide much details about the visitors, such as their IP addresses, exit links and so on.
So what to do in this situation?
- Register an account on statcounter.com (I am assuming you are familiar with basic setup, hence not going deep into details)
- Follow the wizard to add new project (i.e. is your website)
- Install the code on your website provided by statcounter.com – there’s an option to deploy invisible code (meaning that no counter button will be displayed)
- You are good to go…
Statcounter will instantly start tracking your website for each single incoming visitor, outgoing links, or you can call them exit links, downloads and much more.
You need to focus on exit link activity to make sure that clicks on ads are valid – and there’s nothing suspicious going on. For this, go to your statcounter account, open the project you just created and check for stats, exit link activity being most crucial of them:
As you can see, there are two google adsense clicks – that ProPakistani has got in last few minutes. We can click on magnifier to see more details, such as IP address, referrer, and more.
Check below screen for one of visitor who clicked on adsense:
If you feel that Ad clicks are suspicious, and are coming from same IP with-in short interval of time – then note down the details, taking screenshots is even better and notify Google Adsense by clicking this link: http://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=invalid_clicks_contact&rd=1
If you think someone is bugging you real hard, you may even try contacting FIA’s cyber crime wing with all the details. Contacting FIA’s cyber crime wing is explained here.
A note to general readers:
If you are a legitimate reader, you don’t need to worry about anything about the tracking. This is done for the bad people only. You are one of millions of visitors on this website. We make sure that your visit history, cookies and all other details remain safe. Here’s our policy for further details on your privacy.
its just pathetic, how one can go to this deep shit level. Clicking on others’ adsense just to SUSPEND the account. :/
I think Google itself should take some measures to control this, as by doing this anyone can be deprived of his Google Adsense account (which is the main source of income for many publishers).
Again thanks for sharing this wonderful information and solution, appreciated !
You agreed to take of it yourself while signing the contract
BTW 2 year ago that was a huge problem but today adsense have its own invalid click detector which detects the click and then do not credit your account for those clicks.. :)
I have observed it thats true
same happened with me ,someone made 24 clicks on my site in one day and my adsence account got banned
but now i use adsence alternate which is pretty good !!
which alternate r you using plz tell me too.?
nowadays i m using infolinks and they also support payoneer cards that’s why
infolinks is good, and they are more likely to receiv clicks, but I guess payoneer is no longer giving cards to Pakistan and the second payment method is paypal ( i.e also not available in Pakistan )
i also wish to know alternative of adsense
I also faced this issue last week, I reported to google and everything is back to normal now. I did the same procedure as guided here, and then blocked the culprits IP address on web server csf firewall.
Very good, at least it will help alot new bloggers
How did u block the ip address of that click bomber
What a wonderful share.
Checking your account 3-4 times a day is not a good choice ….. Better to check once a dayc
gr8 post …very helpful
thanks for such a nyc post…i still remember when google black listed my domain year ago because some one clicked on ads abt 50 times ….:/
how can i earn from google adsense plz help me
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Hey .. you all suck .. guess what happened .. i just reported and my account got banned … what the fu*k this is …??
Calm down !!!
no one here said (including author) that u if u report you will get ur account unblocked or something…this post was just to help others…we didn’t banned your account…
I wish this post was posted just a week ago…I am the victim of it :(
sad :(
Yea i lost my account due to this i think the best way is to no credit invalid click rather than account suspension.
Some times Google Adsense seems like a SCAM due to Click Fraud suspension issues and policies…
This tool seem to be useful but i think there must be another foolproof method to stop click bombing. I found a paid method called “clockstopper”. I have not checked it personally but its developer claims that their tool can stop invalid clicks.
Please anyone tell me about this method “clockstopper” or any other plugin which can stop multiple clicks.
there is a plugin but i didnt tested it..acutally it’s not a plugin it’s php code (not made by me) which will stop showing ads after X amount of clicks if you want u can contact me because i can’t post the whole code here
I am interested in this type of code kindly give me more details through email
Aamir bhi its a good article. Someone clicked on my adsense ads for 50 times on 15/5/12 from USA. Can u please tell should i report to google for it using the statcounter my account is still alive. I have removed ads from website to get a better solution of click bombing. Secondly how can we block the ip address of that click bomber. I have also seen a paid software of adsenseclickblocker what do u think about this.
very informative article…
simply great tips, bookmarked for future reference.
thanks
Thanks Amir you done great job.
Huh…My adsense acount disabled 2 week ago due to the same reason & I can’t get it back…That statcounter tool is for paid acounts only :(
Google should take care of this…It’s google’s fault not the innocent publishers.
Now I can’t signup for new adsense acount they say you must have a custom domain, bla bla bla.
I’ve alot of visiter’s & it’s increasing day by day…
What is the best adsense alternative(s) for pakistani bloggers?
Aamir,
Why don’t you share a post, that contain information regarding how to earn using Google Adesence, that will benefit many, and lot of fresh blood is on internet doing nothing other than chating and surfin.
Regards,
*sigh* jealous souls can do anything, nice post btw.
Uniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiique like ever MashaLLAH!
Great job……… its very useful post thank u very very much for this great information.
Very awesome Post… I wish Google itself take some serious action against those users who do invalid clicks.
Ur right bro,,,,google itself must take action against those evil people,,!
@Admin Online complaint link in FIA post is broken.. plz check
You have made a great post here, and i believe yes there are such people who are jealous with your presence and they want to harm you in any sense.
You guys are doing a great job, this post will surely help a lot of publishers out there.
I Neeed Google Addsen Account
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Bro Don’t buy adsense account…believe me dont buy them.
and stop using that yahoo messenger thing to get clicks google is not a kid u cant make them fool…
save your money and also if u think just a lil bit u will understand it’s haram too (am talking about using yahoo messenger to get clicks not the adsense it self)
PEACE
Hi,Nice Sharing i Like it
but Can any one tell me How we received our payment of Google ad’s in Pakistan??
Through Western Union
Thanks @Tanveer ,,,wow superb thats gud news but google has westen uniion option or 1st they will send on paypal then i will transfer on westen union?
What a great post i really it.
really it is big issue at this time.
Great publication. We faced same kind of issue at one of my employer
http://www.bargains.pk
They also faced high CTR through their Facebook Ads. I wonder people might do that as well, because fake clicking also costs money
Google is becoming very bad… one of my friend who is getting more than 30k pageviews per day got banned for invalid clicks… he contacted adsense with ip address and other logs, but google didn’t accept his reply… now he is searching for other alternatives…
I have very bad experience with google adsense. I got 5 google adsense accounts. But all are banned…
I read this article it is help full but if we talk about google, there is no rule for pakistan. Google always baaned pakistani accounts…
How did you get 5 accounts man where this only one allowed
thanks
post i really it.
really it is big issue at this time.
Google is not become very bad, Google is working on unique content to show true and unique information for user. If you don’t like this act that is in your faver then please leave the google using…
Really informative. Many Thanks
Thanks a lot for the help, hoping this would help in avoiding accounts of ad sense getting banned in Pakistan.
very informative article… this issue was bothering me n my friends alot..
Thank you very much about this tipp using statcounter.com to track the exit URL of ip adress – on this way you can localize the area of adsense click fraud bastards!
I dare you 99% of the adsense fake clickers came from the same niche of SEO for example Cars, Mobiles, Vacation…
Let´s click back once a adsense spammer was detected and bust his fu*king adsense account! 8-)
Thank you again, it´s exactly for what i´m was searching for.
BR,
Alessandro
mine got banned 3 times in last 4 months of 2011..:(
seen your blog brother work hard ! have orignal content then google will not bane your adsense account
“Make sure that you are monitoring your adsense account at least once a day, 3-4 times a day is even better.”
Well, I was told by someone that monitoring your Adsense account frequently will get your account disabled.
no way,
can can hire one watchman for it :) haha
amir bhi its a good article. Someone clicked on my adsense ads for 50 times on 15/5/12 from USA. Can u please tell should i report to google for it using the statcounter my account is still alive. I have removed ads from website to get a better solution of click bombing. Secondly how can we block the ip address of that click bomber. I have also seen a paid software of adsenseclickblocker what do u think about this.
I Installed statcounter plugin and did all configuration.
It shows all stats except the Exit links which is most important for me and becouse of it I instaled this counter. Any why or solution’s?
I m very thankfull to propakistani for such a very useful plugin that is very best from all other state meters. God bless u……..
@propakistani:
you said that same IP with-in short interval of time
what short interval of time??and approx..plz tell
nice plugin thanks
Really appreciate your efforts for this log . its blessing we can find and can cure our blog the most important is to find alternate of Google ads
that happening to me right now some1 clicking to much on my ads here the screenshot http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KrtLuEsHopI/UQGNtI4e-SI/AAAAAAAATS0/R1_RnzIthXQ/s1600/ads.JPG
i report to google about that im so worry now :( can u help me on anyway?
Thanks! Hopefully this will help in the never-ending fight against jealous people.
Nice BLog
Very interesting theory on how to track invalid clicks to safeguard your adsense account. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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hi when I track my google adsense ads on my exit link activity(statcounter) I have a difficulty to do that because I have a lot of google drive files(pdf) which are an external links.what is the best method to solve this problem and don’t show my pdf in exist link activity,thanks
thanks a lot for your best article.If you don’t mind can you write a good article on how to upgrade statcounter and all the détails :how much cost and how to use statcounter itself.thanks