If you reload your website pages again and again. And if these pages contain Google Ads, each time your reload your page, you make a request to Google Ads Server for a new set of ads.

Google is unaware that you are testing your website and it might even penalize your account for “click-fraud” since the IP requesting ads remains same. And if in the worst-case scenario, you might accidently click on your own ads.

I have found some ways to overcome this serious problem.

1. Found this one on tech-buzz blog.

A great Greasemonkey script to block ads from your own websites. You must have Firefox with Greasemonkey extension installed.

Now, download and install this greasemonkey script. Once you’ve installed the script, visit your website which has AdSense ads in it. You’ll notice a popup box which asks for your AdSense Publishers Code

You can find your publisher code at the bottom of ‘My Account’ in your AdSense Account’s Dashboard, it looks something like pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).

2. If you are using firefox, download and install adblock firefox extension from here.

After installing the extension, open webpage that contains your adsense ads. Goto Tools ->Adblock ->Preferences.

Then add this line in the textbox and click add:

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/cpa/ads?client=ca-pub-xxxxxxxxx

Replace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your 16 digit adsense pub id.

This will block all the text ads from your account.

You can block image ads, referral ads, video ads also.

Just goto Tools->Adblock ->List All Blockable Elements.

For image ads, you will see the adsense image code like http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id= in the list of blockable elements.

The ad code is long enough but just copy few characters after this string ,like http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imgad?id=CMLvG7489JK and paste in the adblock. This will most likely block all the adsense image ads from your account.

3. There is another Firefox extension to block javascripts. The extension named Noscript can be installed from here.

The extension doesnot have the option to block javascript from a particular website. You can only enable/disable scripts globally. So when you open your webpage containing adsense ad. Hit the noscript button in the firefox tasbar to disable scripts. This will block all the scripts including adsense ads.

If you have any other way around, please feel free to comment.

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