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Author: Wai Chong

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It is no doubt that Google Adsense is truly one of the most amazing income sources on the Internet. One can simply paste some code into your web pages and Google will send you monthly cheques, without any of the usual hassles of making sales, keeping stock or supporting customers. However there is still one big problem with Adsense - "Click Fraud".

Click fraud occurs when someone tries to cheat Google by clicking on the Adsense links on his or her own site in order to generate extra income. This is of course very easy to do and usually takes the form of repeated clicks coming from the same PC. Understandably, Google is very concerned about this and regularly checks Adsense accounts for signs of suspicious activity. If you've never tried to cheat Google in this way, you may be thinking that this problem has nothing to do with you.

Hopefully you are right. However you should be aware that there are many reports on the Internet of Adsense accounts being suspended or closed because of "suspicious activity", even though the person involved has never tried to cheat Google.

Here are some scenarios that might lead termination off your adsense account

Case 1: "Hell hath no fury..."
John had a steady $50 a day income from Adsense. Not a fortune but a nice little income.

He split up from his girlfriend. They say "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".

Well in this case, it proved true.

She visited his site and clicked loads of times on his Adsense ads.

It didn't take a lot of effort to do this. However the result was that John's Adsense account was closed down. $50 a day gone in an instant.

Case 2: "Mother, what have you done..."
Jill was proud of her Adsense sites, so she told his family about them.

Her family didn't really understand the concepts, but knew that every time anyone clicked on those little ads on the side of Jill's web pages, Jill got some extra money.

You can guess the rest.

Jill lost her Adsense account overnight, thanks to her own Mother!

There are many more cases around

... people using this to shut down competitors' sites

... people bearing a grudge using it to get their revenge

... bored kids simply doing it for kicks

It's just so easy to do!

The fact is that ANYONE can click on your ads, click their browser Back button, then click on the ads again.

Doing this repeatedly makes it "suspicious activity", which can get your account suspended or closed permanently.

Convincing Google that it was not your fault varies from difficult to impossible. Once your account has been closed, you are not permitted to apply for another account ever again.

I heard of one guy who was so worried about this problem that he checked his own visitor stats every day and contacted Google whenever anything looked even remotely suspicious, just to protect himself.

What did he do when he went on holiday?

Would you believe he removed all the Adsense ads from every one of his sites!

It might sound crazy, but that's just how worried he was about this problem.

So what can you do to protect yourself?

Some have suggested that you can place tracking systems on your sites to track on those IPs have clicked on your ads repeatedly and report immediately to Google if such cases are happening.

Recently, certain softwares have been developed to counter such issues. An example of such softwares would be Adsense Clicklock. This software have features that automatically hides the adsense ads after a particular number of clicks set by the user. Thereafter, the advertising spaces would show replacement ads from Amazon, Overture, Clickbank or anything else you want. This would an excellent way to both protect your adsense account and at the same time promote your affiliate products.

To prevent unnecessary termination of your adsense account, I highly recommend that you start to take action on ways to protect your adsense account today!

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