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In one word … NO.

Clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited by Google as it has the potential to inflate advertiser costs. To combat this menace of click fraud, if Google suspects or finds out that you have been clicking on your own ads and trust me Google will, your Adsense account will be banned. So, please do not click on your own ads.

If you wish to test the ads being displayed on your website or blog without the risk of invalid clicks, I suggest using the Google Adsense Preview Tool. The clicks and impressions from the Adsense preview tool are not applied to the Advertiser’s account and you can happlily click through to the target site without worrying about invalid clicks being generated on your account.

The Google AdSense preview tool allows you to preview the ads that may show up on your webpage. This is a very useful tool for website admins who are displaying Google Adsense ads on their website. You can even click on the ads being shown here as the ads are in a test state, so you don’t have to worry about Google penalizing you by banning your Adsense account. You can preview ad formats and colors where you can select a new border or background or text colors. You can also view ads which visitors to your site say from Australia or U.K or India or China or from any other country might be seeing when they visit your website.

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