Clickfraud Monitor

Click-Fraud Monitoring – Protects your AdSense account!

Minimize the risk to be banned and excluded from your Adsense account due to malicious third party clicks on advertisements on your website. Works with other ads as well

Why i need Click Fraud Monitoring?

• Prevent malicious clicks by bots on your Ads
• Prevent malicious clicks by human user on you Ads
• Prevent clicks by friends on your Ads who want to “help” you.
• Prevent unintended clicks by your own
• Block your own IP
• Use custom name for your ad block class
• Blocks a comma separated list of specific IP´s including detection of your own IP
• Export all clicks to CSV
• Export all blocked IP addresses to CSV
• E-Mail notification for malicious activity on your site

Features

• Disable Ads when a user clicks multiple times on them
• User will be banned and blocked for further clicks
• Manual blocking by entering a list of several IP addresses
• Automatic Unblocking of ip addresses
• Support for third party caches like W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, WP Super Cache
• See URL and path of clicked ads
• Statistic and analytic: See all clicks on yours ads, sort able by IP, URL and Time
• Works, even without reloading (jQuery and Ajax)
• Works with every Theme
• E-Mail notification for blocked user
• Activating and disabling of all Ads with one click
• Use it in content, sidebars and widget sections
• Simple installation and setup
• No garbage left: Removes all plugin tables and settings in the WP database when uninstalled
• Service and support by the author
• Periodic updates and improvements.

…and the last but most important:

• It protects your AdSense Account from getting banned

 

How does it work?

The Plugin counts all clicks on your Ads. When the clicks exceeds a specified number it will be deactivated and hidden. The clicking user or bot will be blocked on a IP basis for further clicks. At the same time the plugin sends you a notification by email.

Why would Google ban me?

In easy words: Google takes care that every click on any AdSense advertising is done by a real human visitor. Automatic clicks by crawl bots or a lot of automated or manual processed clicks (a so-called Clickbomb) can lead to a complete and permanent exclusion from the Google AdSense service. All your earnings are lost and it is very hard to get back the access to your account. (In most cases impossible)
The motivation behind such automatic clicks is very different. Maybe some competitor wants to harm you or a technical leads to multiple clicks by a human user. They all have in common that you as the AdSense account owner are responsible for any click fraud. You recognize unusual clicks when your page CTR is 1 – 3 % averaged and than it jumps up to 5, 10 or even more.

This is where the “Click Fraud Monitor” comes in…for prevention!

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is the use of the plugin against the Terms of Service (ToS) of Google AdSense, is the ad code modified?

• No, it´s not against the terms. The AdSense source code is not changed in any case.

2. How does the plugin count the clicks?

• The plugin detects clicks on AdSense ads and count them internally in the database. If clicks exceed the maximum allowed ones it hides the < ins> tag of the AdSense tag via js and css. Google explicitly stated that Its allowed to hide the < ins> tag of AdSense via CSS if you are using the universal responsive analytics code which is loaded asynchronously. Do not use the plugin if you are using the old class code.

3. Does it work on WordPress MU (Multisites)

• Not tested yet. Please let me know if you have any issues or if you test it successfully.

4. Does it work with YOAST SEO

• Yes

5. Does it work with installation on localhost?

• If you are testing on a localhost environment make sure that you are running your site on http://127.0.0.1/. If you are using http://localhost the plugin is not able to block your access for testing purposes.

6. Is there a 100% guarantee that this plugin prevents you from exclusion of your AdSense Account?

• Due to the possible technical eventualities like rotating IP addresses there is no 100% safety. But this plugin helps you are lot to minimize the risk to be banned because of any malicious clicks.
  It´s developed on a regular basis to cover as many eventualities as possible.

7. Does it work with WordPress Quick AdSense and WP QUADS Plugin?

• Yes, its working with every available AdSense plugin. Other supported plugin are Advanced Ads or the official Google AdSense plugin

8. Does it work in sidebars and widgets?

• Yes

9. Does it work with alternative ad venders or only with AdSense?

• It´s working with other pay per click ad vendor. It´s not focused on AdSense.

 

Change Log

= 2.2.0 =
* New: Compatible up to WordPress 6.2.0
* New: Option to block current logged in admin user to prevent accidentally clicks

= 2.1.9 =
* New: Improve IP detection for clients using proxies or cloudflare

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*Please note that for security reasons you can’t actually listen to clicks on specific element(s) when iframes source is another website. This support is a work around. It just listens to click inside the iframe element.
Clicks on text ads will count as a click even if the link isn’t directly clicked. When there will be a different, better solution, I will update it with newer approach.