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Are bot clicks on adsense getting you banned?



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Are bot clicks on adsense getting you banned?

I was recently talking with a friend about how our adsense accounts were banned a few years back and it was a good conversation. We were talking about all the ways an adsense account gets banned and then we started talking about all the click bots out there just damaging peoples accounts.

Now the bots out there have been rampant for years. Google has been pretty good at figuring out what is a bot click and what is a natural click, but they're not always nice about it. If your adsense gets hit with a few hundred bot clicks a day and you're only getting 10 uniques, they will most likely ban your account without asking you any questions. This is kind of bad for business because not everyone is running the bots on their own websites. Some people are running bots on hundreds of websites that aren't they're own just so they can do testing. These programmers don't care about your website and couldn't care less if you get banned from adsense. They do care about their bot working and you're just the guinea pig Are bot clicks on adsense getting you banned?

Like I said, Google is pretty good about noticing the bots... now. But back in 2003 to 2005 when I was running adsense I definitely got hit by a bot because my earnings shot up to $100+ a day for 2 days and then I was banned. I had no clue what was going on and the only response I got from Google was letting me know that I was banned but I could still use their other services like gmail and Google analytics if I wanted to. WTF?

Hopefully Google is more friendly to it's users now, because back in the day they didn't seem to care much Are bot clicks on adsense getting you banned?

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Lynne
Razzy I was wondering about this because I get some spam referrer traffic in my analytics... and I was concerned about how Google would differentiate between bots that are just on my websites which is out of my control and buying traffic which is something I just don't do.

How will Google know the difference and not ban my Google Adsense account for this? Surely there are lots of other web masters that don't buy traffic but get hit with these bots...

I find this spam referrer traffic really annoying because my reporting is just not accurate. I have tried to block them out from my reports but for some reason I have not been successful doing this.

Surely there should be a way around this? Google Adsense can't go and ban everyone that has referral spam?



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TommyCarey
Procoder came up with a good, and easy way, of blocking bots through the .htaccess file on your hosting or server. And like he suggested, I'm going to look into some kind of spam protection for when I get back into adsense. I plan on monitizing some of my news related websites with adsense and I want to avoid getting banned due to bot clicks Are bot clicks on adsense getting you banned?



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ssam
This is what most website owner face the problem of click bot.Mostly competitors website owner do this to harm the earning of the rival website.



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TommyCarey
It's kind of sad actually. I'm not sure why people don't just focus on increasing their own profits through good marketing and optimization. Instead they just want to take down their competition so that they can funnel the traffic tor their own websites. It's a shady tactic that can ruin someones business if they rely on adsense clicks from their traffic.

Have you ever had this happen to you on your adsense or any other monitization ads?



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Everett
Also, you forgot to mention "bot clicks" on Youtube videos. A lot of the time mischievous users will get a program solely to click on ads to get their competitors adsense account banned. If you're a small youtuber making about $25 per day from adsense, Google wouldn't care less and wouldn't unban the account. It seems that established youtubers are protected.

Now in regards to bot clicks via Google Adsense, this is a bit of a pain, and I too have witnessed bot clicks. There really isn't a way to block them but eventually they stop.



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Cristian
I also had my Adsense account banned, but that's because I did the booting myself, lol.

Otherwise, I have to disagree, the practice of banning competitors Adnsese accounts is still out there and still pretty much alive. That means that certain bots are so good that they pass as natural users, you need to make it look like the owner is telling its friends to click on the ads!

I know it sounds stupid, but it actually works, don't know how to develop such a bot but you can definitely set up patterns that look human enough but intentional.



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