If you ever wanted to know about the Google AdSense ads that you have recently clicked from Firefox or IE, here’s a tip:
Open the history panel (Ctrl+H) in the browser and type googleadservices - you will see all the Google Ad URLs that you have clicked since the last time you cleared your browser history.
You can also know the exact web address of the Adwords advertiser from these URLs. Firefox 3 users can type googleadservices in the address bar and get the same information from the auto-complete entries in the drop down.
Nothing very useful but will give you an idea about how frequently you click on Google AdSense Ads on other websites.
Related: Tracking Google AdSense Clicks with Google Analytics
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/favorites/how-many-google-adsense-ads-did-you-click-today/2718/
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Reader Comments
Just as I suspected: Exactly zero. adsense ftl.
Written by Mad William Flint on 03.27.08
Zero :)
Written by Erdal on 03.27.08
None for me. I don’t remember click Google Ads except for may be thrice or so. I wonder who in the world is clicking on Google Ads?
If I want something, I just Google it.
Written by benjamin on 03.27.08
Looks good. Probably this will be useful for ‘click exchange’ networks…. :-(
Written by Sara on 03.27.08
the same feature is also there in IE8.
i found this feature in IE8 good to see in Firefox 3 also.
Written by Ajay on 03.27.08
good find. where will you get such ideas?
Written by Sathish AR on 03.27.08
Yep, don’t need a tip like this to know how many ads I click in a day - it’s always a big fat zero!
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Written by David Bradley on 03.28.08
It was a long time ago I clicked on google ads. That time I didn’t know that it was an ad.
Written by Steve Yu on 03.28.08
Nice tip - I wonder if there is a similar tip for finding who’s clicked on my adsense ads in my blogs/sites…
Written by Michael on 03.28.08
none for me too..
Written by bhanu on 03.28.08
great tip and i was wondering if you ever click on Google ads ;)
Written by CompuWorld on 03.29.08
ZERO for me. Adblock Plus FTW !!!
Written by prashant on 03.29.08
Freaks, you should click on ads, that is what keeps great sites like this running.
what I find amazing is that people actually take pride on not clicking on ads, and we as publishers make every effort to make our visitors click on the ads…
this game is fun..
Written by Nelson on 08.27.08
Does any one know of Adblock Plus for Internet explorer or Google Chrome?
Written by analogstuff on 03.18.09