How Google Adsense knows that You are clicking your own ads?

October 4, 2007

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This question have been asked many times in forums and to post this I thought it million of times. Because some evil webmasters can take this piece of information to try to “fool” the big G. But let me tell you something, don’t be fool yourself and don’t try anything funny to game Google system, they will catch you! and in no time they will send you an email saying “Gotcha!”. Anyways, I love to analyse how companies system works and Google is one of my favorites as they are so “secret” to their stuffs. Here are some points on how Google can know that you clicked your own ads:

Gmail: When you have an account in Gmail, Google will easy track what you are doing.

Any Google Tool: When you sign up with any Google API or Tool. Google will track what you are doing in the internet e.g. using the webmaster tool, they already know which sites you own and from their statistics data they know which sites you visit.

Google Search: When you search from Google, then you are under the radar of the big G.

System Tray: Google knows what are in your system tray (don’t ask me how)

Resolution Screen: Google knows what is your screen resolution

Your PC : Google knows how is your pc (from CPU, RAM,etc..)

Your IP: Google knows what is your IP. Ok, you may say my IP changes every second how Google knows that? Remember, that Google knows your screen resouliton, your pc, what sites you visit, they are worst than CIA or FBI

The way you enter your site: If you want to click an ad from your site, what you will do? Just add in your browser your URL and then click an AD. Let’s say you delete your cookies, change pc, change IP and everything and then you say “ha-ha I will full Google”. Then you click your AD. Then Google check and see that this computer is brand new! no cookies, no temporarly internet files and joined your site to click an AD. This is suspicious to Google and anyone!

There are many other ways that Google can catch you about cheating their system. You know Google makes billions of dollars from their advertisers and they are happy for it. So their main goal is to protect their advertisers before the publishers. They will not have mercy for you as publisher if you are a cheater. So take care and don’t be fool trying to fool the big “G”. If you see any click fraud attempt in your adsense account contact Google inmediatly read my previous post about Google Adsense Click Fraud Attempts? and Google adsense id has been hijacked.

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4 Responses to “How Google Adsense knows that You are clicking your own ads?”

1. Collin DeRuyck said:
   

   October 4th, 2007 at 7:39 pm

   Nice post, I never get any clicks on there adds anyways so I don;t even use them anymore. But good points to know.

2. Eric said:
   

   July 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   Although I feel that advertisers definitely should be protected, peoples privacy is the ultimate concern. I feel that Google is getting way too big, i am thinking of advertising with another ad network unless they stop invading all our privacy. Nothing online is private any more. It’s actually making me think of disconnecting my internet connection and not using the internet at all. If google thinks people NEED the internet or even GOOGLE to be happy, forget it, the internet is changing, growing and yes, even google can have aggressive competition that might come up in the future. Possibly a more private search network where the privacy policy strictly states they will not collect ANY personal information at all, including key words or whatever…

3. the philippine island said:
   

   July 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pm

   that’s true. google is very smart and they will even know where you are hiding…just kiddin… Google has all tools to protect their advertisers, so the best way to become successful on your site is to be honest… don’t ever try to fool google or else… you probably say goodbye to your site.

4. Ehsan said:
   

   December 31st, 2009 at 11:40 am

   Nice post. I really appreciate how deepen you have looked into the details of what actually Google do. When I got into this Adsense thing, I was a junior and I thought it’d be so easy to fool them around. I’d use IP changers, cookies cleaners etc but one day I got a suspension email. I also heard that Google check your Hard Drive’s serials and your Motherboard’s serials etc. Google is more like sneaking into your privacy all the time.

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