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How to Keep Your AdSense Account From Being Nuked by Google  by: Robert Plank 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. About The Author Robert Plank See how you can take the oldest PHP trick in the book and give it a unique twist by watching this free video. http://www.affiliatebattleplan.com/Rewrite.html This article was posted on August 1, 2005   View More Videos from the "Computers and Internet" category: Kevin Ryan on AlleyCorp's New Publications and Expansions Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 3 How Atma Links’ Affiliate Links for Forums Work How to Move WordPress Blog to a Different Server and Web Address Part 2/2   Read More Articles from the "Computers and Internet" Category: High Speed Internet Providers - How Do You Choose? by Mark Woodcock Newsbytes From The World Wide Web by Jim Edwards Create Your Own Business Cards, Part 2 by Jane Fulton How to Prepare for the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) Certification by uCertify What In The World Is VoIP? by D Ruplinger 100% Office Friendly Amusing Animated Backgrounds by Jeff Darling SEO’s Perception Gap by Ethan Luke ERP/Accounting Selection: Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, SAP – expansion to Europe by Andrew Karasev 6 Things To Consider Before When Getting A Photo Lab by George Williams Photo Plus 2005 by The Digital Room Moderator << Back to "Computers And Internet" Index

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