ClickAider - A Useful Site

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guys i just wanna share this free service that i found, they're called ClickAider and they monitor the clicks to your PPC ads. you just have to add a few lines of javascript.

i decided to monitor the clicks on my ads because i always wonder if someone is click-bombing me. and i read somewhere in Google that we always have to monitor our Adsense account and send them the logs as proof if ever our account gets banned for invalid clicks so they can reinstate you immediately.

anyway, with ClickAider, i can find out immediately if someone has the bad intentions so i can immediately remove the Adsense ads. it also works for YPN and others. heres the url for it in case anyone is interested:

http://clickaider.com/

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I remember me that there was another script you can use for that.
The project owner stopped because Google adsense changed something in their code and the script has stopped working.

how big are your click bombs and how do you get them?

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I am afraid that if your account get a huge amount of clicks, this tool wont really help because you'll see what happened afterwards, right?

I never heared of someone that got banned, get his/her account back because he/she sent the logs to Google.

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I think it depends on how often this happend, I remember me twice that people clicked 100 times on of my site (must say it can happen on every type of site)

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Yeah but how would such a tool help you if that happens?

I mean this tool will just tell you that those clicks happened, it wont block them, right?

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Yeah but how would such a tool help you if that happens?

I mean this tool will just tell you that those clicks happened, it wont block them, right?

I remember that Adlogger will hide the adsense code if some count is reached, does this tool have this feature too?

Does it work for firefox ?

Most of the tools I tried don't actually work for firefox  because an outside script can't/is not supposed to look inside the contents of an iframe from a different domain (google ads iframe) 

It works for IE6 because of a bug/wrong implementation of the HTML specifications ....

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I am afraid that if your account get a huge amount of clicks, this tool wont really help because you'll see what happened afterwards, right?

I never heared of someone that got banned, get his/her account back because he/she sent the logs to Google.

ive read in other forums especially in their own, Adsense Help Forum, how others got reinstated just by showing proof to Google that they are not the ones doing it. now why would Google ban innocent publishers because of the wrong doings of others? i think they are not that unfair.

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Does it work for firefox ?

Most of the tools I tried don't actually work for firefox  because an outside script can't/is not supposed to look inside the contents of an iframe from a different domain (google ads iframe) 

It works for IE6 because of a bug/wrong implementation of the HTML specifications ....

i can see visitor data using firefox

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I remember me that there was another script you can use for that.
The project owner stopped because Google adsense changed something in their code and the script has stopped working.

how big are your click bombs and how do you get them?

actually, the author of that script recommended clickaider as a good replacement for his Adlogger.

i thought there were click bombs. using clickaider, i found out that the highest clicks made from a single ip was just 6 clicks.

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I remember that Adlogger will hide the adsense code if some count is reached, does this tool have this feature too?

unfortunately not. but who knows, theyre still new.

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6 clicks from one IP is not bad
I guess it becomes a bom after 20 clicks or more

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vbignacio,

I installed clickaider yesterday and I have used adlogger in the past ...

Adlogger was able to tell the actual URL that was clicked on the adsense ad

How is that important ?
Looking at your adsense data you could figure out how much that advertiser was willing to pay and if it was a cheap advertiser you could put him in the competitive filter box ....

But adlogger was not able to get this info for users with Gecko based browser simply because Gecko had their script permissions set right and according to the w3 specifications (you can't have an arbitrary script look inside the contents of an external iframe and manipulate it as you wanted ... does it make sense ?) and that was probably one of the problems that led to the halt of production, since the code still works; I still get reports for one of my sites ....

Clickaider does have some more sophisticated stuff but I did not see anywhere the URL of the adsense clicks reported (or did I miss it) ...

If I am good with my assumption then this stats doesn't offer (at least me) anything more than analytics does ...

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Giorgos, let us know how clickaider works for you, I had no time to check this

As I said Nick, if there is no way to find out the URL of the adsense click its no different then google analytics ...

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GiorgosK,

sad to say, i cant find it either. their site lacks a comprehensive FAQ. maybe since they are still in beta.

are you saying adlogger still works?

Yes adlogger I think it does.  I don't check the results anymore but I do get emails once in a while that someone actually clicked on a adsense ad and when I see my adsense account it is correct .... so I guess it does work ... but its not very accurate as I said ... it only reports IE (I think only 6) users correctly ....

Try downloading it from http://www.adlogger.org/ all the way to the bottom  (if it does not work I can send my version to you)

I actually want to install http://www.asrep.com/ out as soon as I find the time ... heard good thinks about it ...

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GiorgosK,

i emailed ClickAider about the data pertaining to the clicked ad url and it's price. here is a reply from Vadim Tkachenko:

Hi Vincent,

Thank you for response we appreciate it a lot.

Target Ad is available but only for IE 6.0 users, others browsers hide
info about target by security reasons.

Ad Price is not available for Google AdSense, as we have no access to
that data. It is reserved for several others PPC systems which provides
info about cost of click.

Best,
Vadim

so i guess thats that...

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It seems that there is a new project, which looks great and it optimizes your inventory. They are in a closed beta phase but they look great :

http://www.rubiconproject.com/

That sounds very interesting. Have a look at the team behind the Rubicon Project, I think they know what they are doing!

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