Testing out adsense on pages

[yoey]

I was reading a thread about a week ago on here about someone who couldn't get real ads to show up. People were telling him to keep refreshing so that more impressions were made, thus the Google ads would start show relevant ads.

However, I reading some Adsense tips on this one website and he says NOT to refresh your browser when testing your ads. He says :

d. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think. You should not reload your pages excessively. If you are testing your website layout with Google adsense, follow some precautions. Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords.

Then he says :

If you are testing your new website layout, you might be reloading your website pages again-n-again. And if these pages contain Google Ads, each time your reload your page, you make a request to Google Ads Server for a new set of ads.

Certainly Google is unaware that you are testing your website and it might even penalize your account for "click-fraud" since the IP requesting ads remains same.

My understanding is that if you dont click your ads, who cares? This guy seems to be against the whole refreshing thing, regardless if they are accidently clicked.

Maybe his theory is that your accidental click will be more suspicious due to the fact that you refreshed the page so much.

Im not sure. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Here is the article BTW :

Precautions before testing Google AdSense on your website at Digital Inspiration Technology Guide

Thanks.

 

[barman]

Google really does not care about your 50 impressions or 1 accidental click. Get over it.

 

[yoey]

Get over it.

I'm not obsessed with it or anything, I just don't want to get banned. What a hassle it would be to start a new corporation, and address. :xomunch:

 

[midge]

yeah...better take the precautions and don't get banned

 

[StarkReality]

No need for paranoia, although google makes a big fuzz about it, THIS is certainly not a way you may get banned.

It's easy to get in trouble for invalid clicks, easy to get your account kicked, but it certainly takes more than just a few test clicks or refreshes by yourself.

 

[jened]

if you are that worried, use the unofficial test flag in your adsense code at your own risk

 

[krazyjosh5]

im pretty OCD in everything i do. ill refresh a page 1000 times just to tweak an image around. would that affect my CTR?

you think Google would be smart enough to match the IP logged into the adsense panel to the IP refreshing the page a zillion times. then again i dont know if that info makes it to their servers...