Google Adsense Access and Authorization

[Nathan]

I user Google Adsense on several of my sites to earn income off their traffic. A few days ago when I would look over my sites that are earning I saw 10-15 sites that were not mine. I browsed to the site and viewed the page source and sure enough they were using my PublisherID.

 

I don't have a clue why they are doing it, as I see their earnings showing up in my account. Either way I don't want this going on, what if they put my Adsense code on a site that isn't compliant with their terms of service? I don't want to risk my Adsense account so I decided to only allow certain sites that I specify to earn from the ads.

 

It was pretty easy to setup, here it is for anyone else that is interested.

 

1. Login to your Adsense account

2. On the left side click "Account settings"

3. Scroll all the way down to "Access and authorization", the first option there you can add any sites you want to allow to earn from the ads. You need to put them in this format domain.com . Do not do www.domain.com or http://www.domain.com ect... Just the domain.com will do.

 

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[Thomas]

That does indeed song dodgy. Did you contact the site and see what they were doing?

[Nathan]

Yeah no replies yet, but now I don't have to worry about it since I blocked them out

[Marc]

Seems a very odd thing to do since you were earning revenue for their link on the site. Also seems a pretty hard mistake to make.

[Nathan]

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's someone I've sold a site to in the past, and they didn't know what it was? They kept it on thinking they would earn money somehow and copied the code to their other sites or something?

[Marc]

Yeah, I'm wondering if it's someone I've sold a site to in the past, and they didn't know what it was? They kept it on thinking they would earn money somehow and copied the code to their other sites or something?

 

If running websites they would have to either be in the wrong career or pretty darn thick LOL

[Victor Leigh]

If running websites they would have to either be in the wrong career or pretty darn thick LOL

 

I think there are more people like that trying to make money in cyber space than there are not. That's why one of the best business in cyber space is scamming. There's a scammee arriving in cyber space every nanosecond.

[bryce12]

This is indeed a great tip. I have read about people getting their Adsense accounts banned just because their competitors used their adsense code on unscrupulous sites. But we also need to authorize every site that we plan to use for Adsense otherwise the impressions and clicks won't be counted.

[Victor Leigh]

This is indeed a great tip. I have read about people getting their Adsense accounts banned just because their competitors used their adsense code on unscrupulous sites. But we also need to authorize every site that we plan to use for Adsense otherwise the impressions and clicks won't be counted.

 

That's a frightening thought. Getting an Adsense account approved isn't always easy. To have it banned because some malicious person puts our Adsense code on illegal sites would be a very sad thing indeed.

[Marc]

That's a frightening thought. Getting an Adsense account approved isn't always easy. To have it banned because some malicious person puts our Adsense code on illegal sites would be a very sad thing indeed.

 

Indeed it would. Unfortunatly the world is full of morons who want to spoil it for us genuine people.