: How to analyze aggresive Google ad clicks using Apache logs Last week I received email from Google that they are blocking my AdSense account because they traced extensive ad clicks and asked

@BetL925

You don't have all the information to analyze this yourself. You would also need the ad click logs from Google.

They likely had some clicks on ads in their logs associated with a user and IP address. They were suspicious. It didn't look like the clicks from a user that was actually browsing your site. They asked for your server logs so they could search for this IP address and see what that user was doing on your site.

When they got the logs, they pulled out the records associated with that IP address and viewed the activity. What they actually discovered was one of the following scenarios:


The IP address that was clicking on ads wasn't in the server logs. This would indicate that it was a bot that was requesting the ads from them and simulating clicks without actually visiting the site.
They found a user that was visiting many pages on your site and clicking on the ads on every single page. This would indicate that somebody was just trying to drive up your revenue without being interested in the ads themselves
They found an IP addres clicking on ads that was also using the /admin section of your website. That would indicate that somebody associated with your website was clicking on ads in violation of the AdSense terms of service.

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