Adsense can go blow me

What incentive does someone else have to use your Adsense pub ID on their site? Just shady competitors or something?

To get you banned. If your a thorn in the guys side and he knows this is how your monetizing your site he just might think you will go away if you get banned.
 


By the way, I've tested this feature when they've first released it and my earnings were affected (dropped by 30%).

Earnings went back to normal after I switched it off and allowed all sites to display ads. I never bother with it since then.

Would be interested to know if anyone of you have similar experience.
 
By the way, I've tested this feature when they've first released it and my earnings were affected (dropped by 30%).

Earnings went back to normal after I switched it off and allowed all sites to display ads. I never bother with it since then.

Would be interested to know if anyone of you have similar experience.

Anyone else experience a drop in earnings after implementing the allowed sites?
 
I'm continually surprised that today, in 2011, people still do not know about (or know about and don't use) the "allowed sites" feature. Especially if you're making a decent amount of money with adsense.
I don't see why it should be such a shock. Maybe while you were learning about "allowed sites" he was learning something else that you don't know. People kill me thinking everyone should know everything, I've had adsense for over 3 years and been through the interface more times than I can count and I never learned of that aspect until now. That's life.
 
Same here. I've never seen that option until it was mentioned in this thread. Learn something new everyday, and I'm not an Adsense rookie either. I'm going to use it. I know where my money and clicks come from, and it's not from sites running my code without my knowledge. I want that shit on lockdown so I can't get revenge fucked by some asshole who doesn't like me beating them in the SERPs.
 
Same here. I've never seen that option until it was mentioned in this thread. Learn something new everyday, and I'm not an Adsense rookie either. I'm going to use it. I know where my money and clicks come from, and it's not from sites running my code without my knowledge. I want that shit on lockdown so I can't get revenge fucked by some asshole who doesn't like me beating them in the SERPs.
Totally agreed its nice to have security.
 
Have also only just started using this feature and got an unauthorized sites message this morning for "www.bing.com", "www.google.co.uk" and various others. Just found a recent thread on Webmaster World and an Adsense rep on there posted:

"Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I spoke with the Product Manager and here is what they said: When using the authorized sites feature, any sites that you haven't authorized will trigger an error and a message. Note that we currently consider any framed or cached pages to be unauthorized, this includes when a user searches for your site from Google Images for example and your site displays via frame. We encourage you to add these framed or cached URLs to your authorized sites list. We're investigating ways to improve this feature."
 
I've had one account disabled before too... sucks a** considering you can't really get to speak to an actual person over there. But don't give up... ended up getting another account and things have been fine ever since so I'd just lay low for a while and if you're up for trying them out again I'd just resubmit an app for a new site and see if they let you back in.
 
Regarding setting up another account after you have one banned. If Adsense terminates your account, and then you start running ads with another account, won't Google just see that that you have Adsense on the same sites again, and ban that account also? Unless you run Adsense on a new set of sites, it seems like you're going to keep getting terminated.
 
b0rken scrapers are usually the culprit

yup - people who try and make their own scrapers for autoblogging and stuff often forget to remove ad scripts or other html sources. this results in adsense codes getting copied.

sorry to hear that OP. You might want to get other account and make a fresh start.
 
This is rare, in normal cases, they would just disable the ads on whatever sites that violated their TOS. Not shutting down your whole account.