How to Block a Suspicious IP to Prevent Fraud Adsense Clicks

Fraud AdSense Clicks is a major issue for AdSense user and anyone can create this problem of click bombing on your site. Google has clarified in its AdSense terms that AdSense user is responsible for any heavy fraud click activity and he must take care of it to prevent AdSense account termination. AdSense advice its users to regular monitoring of click activities and also advice to take proper actions to stop invalid clicks activity.

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What is a “Fraud Click or Invalid Click” activity ( Click Bombing)
Suppose you have an AdSense account and you are using ads on your website pages. One day you have observed unexpectedly very high CTR which does not seem natural. In this condition there may be a big chance of invalid clicks.
The other condition is regular clicks from an specific Ip and it is the more dangerous condition. In this condition CTR is not affected but Google detects these continuous clicks as planned clicks ( scam by AdSense account holder). Undoubtedly there are two conditions if there are regular clicks from a single Ip;

1. AdSense account holder is using tricks to earn money by clicking from other Ips
2. Someone wants to ban your AdSense account and thus he is involved in invalid clicks activities

So how to Track these Invalid Clicks

Don’t worry because you can track these invalid click activities using Statcounter. Read the article how to find out invalid click activities using Statcounter

How to Block Suspicious Ips to access your AdSense


Currently there is no way to block AdSense ad for a specific Ip but you can block any Ip or a dynamic Ip range to access your website and it is the only solution to stop a fraud click activity.

There are two ways to block Ip address

1.Web Hosting cPanel

It is the easiest way to block any Ip and it is good for novice users. You have to got to Ip deny manager and there you can add any ip to block. You can also block a complete range of Ip addresses. Don’t worry if you test it on your own ip, you can still access your hosting cpanel using yourdomain.com/cpanel and it will still work.

2.Using .htaccess file

This method is slightly advanced and can be used if you have proper knowledge of .htaccess file editing. You can edit your .htaccess file using any ftp client such as FileZilla ( free and fastest ftp software).

Add the following rule in your .htaccess file

order allow,deny
deny from xxx.yyy.zzz.s ( it is the sample ip)
allow from all


If the Ip address is dynamic then do not add the last digit and use the following code

order allow,deny
deny from xxx.yyy.zzz. ( s has been removed here unlike in above case)
allow from all