Access www.google.com/adsense via a proxy

[davidyuanst]

I got an email from adsense. It tell me that my account have been disabled. Becase they found 'invalid clicks '. I have not any robots and automated software. I access www.google/adsense via a free proxy server. I think it taken this big problem.

I email to adsense and tell them this reason.

I lost lot's of US$. So bad!

[freeflight2]

why did you use a proxy server?

[Jenstar]

I can't see this as being a problem whatsoever with Google, unless you were hiding behind a proxy to also click on your own ads. I am sure there are others who use proxies to login as well.

[rbacal]

Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn't use a proxy server open to the public to access ANYTHING connected to an adsense account or any other ppc type thing. The use of proxy servers is an obvious red flag, and I believe that many ppc type companies, in the past, used open proxy lists to red flag clicks.

[TonysDesigns]

Can someone kindly discribe a proxy server in layman's terms?

Is AOL a proxy?

[linear]

Proxy in a nutshell: your browser makes all HTTP requests of a single server which then requests those URIs on your behalf and serves them to you. Depending on the headers passed by the proxy server, you may be more or less anonymous as a result. The server with the URI you want will always know the IP of the proxy server, but it may or may not know your IP as well, depending how certain headers are set up.

If you use a proxy server, you may also be effectively sharing an IP address with a few thousand of your closest friends. It depends on both which headers the tracking code examines, and which headers the proxy chooses to provide.

You'd think that G would examine the HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR header routinely, and that its absence might raise some sort of flag.

[TonysDesigns]

AOL a proxy? I am postive that a lot of my "clickers" of G, are from AOL.

Should that threoretically cause issues with G?

[jomaxx]

I think AOL does technically act as a proxy server, but what people are talking about here are anonymizers - intermediate servers that can disguise your true IP address. Half the planet uses AOL and I'm sure that's not going to be an issue.

[TonysDesigns]

Oh ok....Jomaxx

I have no clue what an anonymizer is anyhow....

THanks for that info

T

[div01]

Not just AOL, but many broadband service providers also have proxy servers (at one time they used to recommend them) that do things like caching.