Click Attack Shuts Me Down

I had never heard of a Click Attack until it happened to me. First at one website then another. Just a handful of visitors but an unusually large amount of clicks. It scared me.

I did notice however that Google hadn't credited my account with any money for the clicks and so I thought that they knew it was either some jerk or a computer program accidentally clicking every link on my website. Obviously none of the clicks would be coming from my IP address as everyone knows that clicking your own ads is a serious violation of the terms of service.

Then Google suspended my account. I immediately appealed and after further investigation Google reinstated my account.

A piece of advice from Adsense, If you suspect that invalid clicks may have resulted from a visitor to your site Google suggests that you review your site's logs for any suspicious activity and notify them with your findings .