Google Adsense is truly one of the most amazing income sources on the Internet.Simply paste some code into your web pages and Google will send you regular checks, without any of the usual hassles of making sales, keeping stock or supporting customers.

However there is still one big problem with Adsense - “Click Fraud”.

Click fraud occurs when someone tries to CHEAT Google by clicking on the Adsense links on his or her own site in order to generate extra income.

This is of course very easy to do and usually takes the form of repeated clicks coming from the same PC.

Understandably, Google is very concerned about this and regularly checks Adsense accounts for signs of suspicious activity.

If you’ve never tried to cheat Google in this way, you may be thinking that this problem has nothing to do with you.

Hopefully you are right. However you should be aware that there are many reports on the Internet of Adsense accounts being suspended or closed because of “suspicious activity”, even though the person involved has never tried to cheat Google.

Here are a few of the stories that have been reported on the Internet…

Case 1 : “Hell hath no fury…”

John had a steady $50 a day income from Adsense. Not a fortune but a nice little income.

He split up from his girlfriend. They say “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.

Well in this case, it proved true.

She visited his site and clicked loads of times on his Adsense ads.

It didn’t take a lot of effort to do this. However the result was that John’s Adsense account was closed down. $50 a day gone in an instant.

Case 2: “Mother, what have you done…”

Jill was proud of her Adsense sites, so she told his family about them.

Her family didn’t really understand the concepts, but knew that every time anyone clicked on those little ads on the side of Jill’s web pages, Jill got some extra money.

You can guess the rest.

Jill lost her Adsense account overnight, thanks to her own Mother!

There are many more cases around

… people using this to shut down competitors’ sites

… people bearing a grudge using it to get their revenge

… bored kids simply doing it for kicks

It’s just so easy to do!

The fact is that ANYONE can click on your ads, click their browser Back button, then click on the ads again.

Doing this repeatedly makes it “suspicious activity”, which can get your account suspended or closed permanently.

Convincing Google that it was not your fault varies from difficult to impossible. Once your account has been closed, you are not permitted to apply for another account ever again.
I heard of one guy who was so worried about this problem that he checked his own visitor stats every day and contacted Google whenever anything looked even remotely suspicious, just to protect himself.

What did he do when he went on holiday?

Would you believe he removed all the Adsense ads from every one of his sites!

It might sound crazy, but that’s just how worried he was about this problem.

So what can you do to protect yourself?

Well now, with our brand new Adsense Click Lock software, you can protect your Adsense account automatically.