Trick to avoid clicking on your own Google Adsense

I found this information useful so I am posting it here:

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.

Luckily there's an easy way to keep from accidentally
clicking your OWN AdSense ads.

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.

To me, making a quick change in your HOSTS file to turn
AdSense on and off is easier than fiddling around with a
firewall program.

Hope this helps.

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