How to prevent accidental click and invalid impressions on Adsense Ads

on February 20, 2010 - 4 Comments
Categories: Google

Many times users on various Webmaster forum ask this question. I have seen people worrying about their Accidental clicks on their own Google Adsense ads. This might be due to Adsense strong policies and now a days they can disable your account too.

Google Adsense has clearly said on their blog help that accidental clicks can happen and you don’t have to report them every time. Because they understand this.

adsense logoRegarding invalid Impressions, Adsense has clearly said that you can visit the site using your adsense account but make sure your that you don’t do this in a large amount because it may affect your eCPM and CTR.

The best way to Prevent accidental clicks and invalid impressions is to turn off your JavaScript while visiting your website. Adsense are displayed using JavaScript. Now the Adsense ads will not appear on the site and your account will remain safe.

On Mozilla Firefox, Click on Tool > Options and then Content tab and Uncheck Enable JavaScript option. When you are done, just Recheck it. Similarly on you can do on other browsers.

But turning off JavaScript you may also turn off or remove other scripts running on your site. But since JavaScript is a client side so it will not affect your visitors. They will see a site with all scripts.

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  1. All Is Well
    February 21, 2010 at 10:13 pm

    You can also use the ad blocker to block ads. This will not display ads.

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  3. TechChunks
    February 23, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    Blocking javascript can block many other web apps that are required to display a web site properly. So if I were you, I’d prefer an Ad blocker if I must!

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  4. Jacob
    May 22, 2010 at 6:18 pm

    Very good explanation. Found what I was looking for with one Google Search.

    I have always disregarded the fact that sometimes my impressions are artificially inflated due to my constant website updates and my perfectionist traits. Sometimes in 1 day, I’ll view different pages on my site over 100 times. It wordpress running a modified template and a unique CMS so sometimes adding just one post requires me to view the site 10 or so times to ensure navigation and page structure is correct.

    Thanks for the tip. I should probably have known that but you made it clear cut and simple.

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