This morning I made a rather large error by accidently clicking on one of my own Adsense ads - big oops! Instant panic and visions of lost cash. My bloody lap-top has one of those "tap to click" mouse pads which can be a bit unpredictable - I was mortified. 

I considered what to do for a few minutes and then quickly mailed them at the "contact" address available from within the "help" section within your account. I explained my error, apologised profusely and asked them to credit the advertiser. It was that or keep my head down and fingers crossed.

By lunchtime I received this:

Hello Dave,

Thank you for your email.

Thank you for letting us know about the clicks on your ads. We appreciate your honesty and your continued efforts toward avoiding the continuation of such clicks. To help you on your way, we offer the AdSense Preview Tool that will allow you to check the destination of ads on your page without the risk of invalid clicks. For more information, please see: https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/topic.py?topic=160&hl=en_GB

For additional questions, I'd encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Centre ( http://www.google.com/adsense_help ), our complete resource centre for all AdSense topics. Alternatively, feel free to post your question on the forum just for AdSense publishers: the AdSense Help Group ( http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help ).

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

I'm hoping this means that I've got away with it. If so, it looks like prompt action and an honest explanation will be accepted (as long as you don't do it too much!)

I'm now too worried to go anywhere near my adsense sites for fear of screwing up again! Anyone else done this?

Dave