Hey All,

I've been using Adsense Shield with another tracker and noticed that I'm still getting an occasional user with several clicks. I'm not sure if they're malicious or just click happy but I'm testing AdLogger to see if I can stop this. AdLogger checks users IP's to see if they've clicked on too many ads, which is something that Adsense Shield doesn't do. It's a free program and it's open source. You can get it here:

Click here for AdLogger

It's more involved than Adsense Shield. You need to create a mySQL database. The setup is pretty easy. You can define how many clicks per hour you want to limit users to. (This isn't an option in Adsense Shield.) You can also set a limit that when hit will have the script send you an alert email.

Each ad block is surrounded by a PHP wrapper. You plug the adsense code into the interface and it generates the code with the PHP wrapper.

I haven't tried the alternate ad option yet but it looks like you can have different ad formats display for each ad block, so the sizes can match. I think it would work well with Kurt's Cherrybomb.

I'm testing it for a couple days to see how things go.

Cheers,

Rich