There have been whole AdSense accounts bringing in $5000 per month banned for life from Google because of fraudulent clicks. If Google catches you clicking on your own AdSense ads, they can shut you down.
You won t get canned just for a single click, but if you re like me and tweak your site a lot it s only a matter of time before you click on one of those things by accident.
The way I keep this from happening is I temporarily block the domain name Google s ads are served from. Once I m finished editing my site I go back under the hood and turn it back on.
Getting this setup will take you less than a minute.
First, find your HOSTS file.
Open Notepad. Go to File, and Choose Open.
If you have Windows 95, 98, or ME browse to the folder "C: windows"
If you have Windows XP Home browse to the folder "C: windows system32 drivers etc"
If you have anything else (Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, NT, 2003, etc.) browse to the folder: "C: winnt system32 drivers etc"
Once you re there, open the file called "hosts". If you don t see anything listed just type the word hosts and the file should open up. Just the word "hosts", no extension or anything after that. It s probably blank but it might not be.
Add this line:
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
And save. You re done.
Now go back to a site that you know has some Google Ads. There should be an empty space where the ads appeared.
Want to turn it off? Don t just delete it, put a " " sign in front of that line, like this:
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
What s that do? It basically says "ignore this line." I like to leave it like that so when I want to hide Google Ads again, all I have to do is remove the " " sign and save then put the " " back in when I m ready to go back to normal.
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