TOPIC: Accidents happen

As most of you know, our program policies state that publishers are notpermitted to click on their own ads for any reason. For this reason,we've received many emails from publishers letting us know that they'veaccidentally clicked on their own ads. If you're one of thesepublishers, we truly appreciate the efforts you've made to monitor youraccount and keep it in good standing. However, we do understand that anaccidental click may occur from time to time, so there's no need tocontact us each instance this occurs.Because we closely monitor allaccount activity using engineering systems and thorough human analysis,chances are we've already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them. While these clicks still show in your reports, wefilter out their associated earnings so that advertisers aren'tcharged. However, please keep in mind that we don't ignore the clickscompletely; if it appears to us that a publisher has been clicking onhis own ads to inflate his earnings or an advertiser's costs, we maydisable the account to protect our advertisers' interests.If you'vebeen clicking your ads out of interest or to see who was advertising onyour site, we strongly recommend using the AdSense preview tool as analternative. This tool will allow you to check the destination of adson your page without the risk of generating invalid clicks. You canalso find more ways to view the URLs of your Google ads by visiting ourHelp Center.Discuss this postThis marks the last post of our 'PolicyThursdays' series - we hope you've found the information from the lastfew weeks useful. Thanks for following along and participating in theAdSense Help Forum discussions!Posted by Mike Deeringer - AdSensePublisher Support