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Just so you know, asking us to click on your Adsense links is against Google’s TOS and can get you banned.

just an observation here… but I think maybe google should rethink that.

I reckon anyone suggestible enough to actually do it is probably suggestible enough to buy whatever’s being sold on the other end, so I don’t think it’s necessarily in anyone’s best interest to outlaw it.

PS: Say no to tinned meat.

That just isn’t true. People get their friends, family, website viewers, etc to click on their links. Most of these never buy anything, but it still gives free money to the site owner and charges the vendor for nothing, and skews their data.
When you get an Adwords account, you work for them as an independent contractor and have a legal agreement as such. Part of that agreement is that you won’t tells people to click on your ads, thus cheating the advertisers out of money. Doing so breaks this contract.

you think family isn’t going to do it just because it’s against the TOS?
google’s gonna get a warrant for your relative’s ISP records?

lets be realistic, if you have ads on your blog, your family are clicking and that’s that.

You’re taking a rather narrow and humourless example of my meaning above. I wonder why.

you think family isn’t going to do it just because it’s against the TOS?
google’s gonna get a warrant for your relative’s ISP records?

lets be realistic, if you have ads on your blog, your family are clicking and that’s that.

Actually, Google goes to great lengths to catch people when that happens. If they even suspect it, they can (according to their TOS that you agree to) and will ban you from Adsense.

You’re taking a rather narrow and humourless example of my meaning above.

I’m just telling you the reality, so that people don’t read this and get the wrong idea about what they should do with their (or their friends’) Google Ads.

Well, I think you’re overstating what google can possibly know about your relationship with your visitors.

Obviously if people are being blatant about it, it’s going to get noticed, but that doesn’t really address my post above… and I’m prepared to argue it as long as you insist on being wrong.

Nobody here is friends with this guy, so my point was and remains that if we’re able to be convinced to go visit his site to click on ads, then quite logically, we would also have the kind of weak mind that could easily be convinced to buy whatever’s being advertised.

That’s perfectly logical. It’s why asking for clickthroughs doesn’t really work worth shit, and if it does, then it shouldn’t be punishable, because the target audience is obviously ripe.

As for the family thing, google has no way of knowing whether you called your sister and aksed her to click your ads a million times, or whether she took it upon herself to “help out” in the most stupid way imaginable.

Likewise, google has no way of knowing if your forum members are naively thinking they’re helping you support your site, or whether you’ve PM’d 12 of them begging for click-throughs… so there’s some latitude involved, and claiming otherwise is pointlessly uneducated.

Google will nullify those repeat-clickers from your results, but they won’t just shit-can your account because your visitors didn’t all read the TOU. That’s just ridiculous.

In order to qualify for a TOU breach, the evidence would have to be available over a sustained period, and anyone who has ever used adsense ads on their sites can tell you that the occasional well-intentioned do-gooder (like a couple of family members) won’t get you axed.

I won’t be counted either – but it won’t get you axed.

Wow! Not what I expected but thanks for the tip halls. I don’t suppose there’s anyway to edit that old post. So now that I got you all off on the wrong topic, I guess no one has any remedies for the saving issue?

raginGeek,

Unfortunately, you can’t edit old posts. I wouldn’t worry about it too much, however, you can certainly feel free to request that a moderator do it for you. Though they obviously don’t often honor such requests, they may make an exception in this case since you’re violating the Google TOS.

Any idears on how to ask a moderator to change it? Any moderators out there listening, could you change it? Thanks ??