Follow these Tips to Avoid getting Locked Out of AdSense

Google closes AdSense accounts of publishers who are found clicking on their own Ads. Some Publishers do not have a clue as to why their accounts were closed. Even though they had never clicked on their own Ads, how did Google claim that they clicked on their own Ad?

How does Google determine clicks from a Publisher on their own Ads?

Remember, once upon a time you had signed up for Google AdSense? Google then knew the IP address, its subnet and other information about you and your system too. It couldn’t have been difficult to record this information and map it to your AdSense account, in the Google database. Post your sign-up with AdSense, you started displaying AdSense Ads on your website(s). You then started checking your AdSense account for the revenue you might have made over days and months. Every time you logged into your AdSense account, Google knew the IP address you were using and many other important things about you and it kept mapping all those IP addresses from which you accessed your AdSense account, with your profile. So, if you logged into your AdSense account from a friend’s system, Google might treat it as your own system and connection and later on if your friend clicked on any Ad on your site, Google may treat it as you clicking on the Ad. Getting the simple logic?

What can you do to avoid getting locked out of AdSense?

Here is a list of places from where you should and must avoid logging into your AdSense account. In simpler terms, don’t login to your AdSense account from:

• A Friend’s computer.
• A Cybercafe/Internet Cafe
• Your Office computer(s)
• From a system which uses a public proxy to browse Internet.

If you do not have a computer at home and can not avoid temptation of checking your AdSense account whenever you have access to a system, setup your AdSense to send your reports to your email account. Remember to use any non-Google email account to receive the reports. [Google may know the IP when you login to GMail account ;)]

Conclusion - By following the tips mentioned in this article, you will be avoiding some of the most common ways of getting yourself locked out of AdSense. But these are not the only ways using which Google might determine your information and clicks. So, be careful!