How to Avoid AdSense Disabled Nightmare

Well, with a lot of news we heard from many bloggers whose AdSense account has been disabled by Google, allegedly violating AdSense TOS–things that some of AdSense publishers denied, it’s no wonder if many AdSense publishers express their concern over this matter.

Fortunately, AdSense team seems to be aware of this. In recent official announcement in its official blog, AdSense introduces a new way called the Allowed Sites list to avoid your AdSense account being misused by third malicious party which will lead to your account closure. Here’s what the program all about:

The Allowed Sites list, which you’ll find by clicking the Allowed Sites link under your AdSense Setup tab, is the place for you to list sites or URLs where you want to allow your ads to appear. Sites that aren’t on your list can still display ads using your ad code; however, impressions and clicks for these sites won’t appear in your reports, advertisers won’t be charged, and you won’t receive any earnings from them.

How to set it up:

…visit your AdSense Setup tab, click the Allowed Sites sub-tab, and choose the radio button for Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account. You’ll then be able to enter allowed URLs for all your sites

Good news. That’s said, it’s still not a guarantee that your AdSense will not be banned. Even if you are an honest publisher who never think of self-clicking your own ads, there’s still a possibility that someone or persons who just want to make a mess with you make a repeated and suspicious clicks to your Ads which will invite a suspicion that he or she does it on your behalf; or any other ways.

Isnaini whose AdSense account were disabled recently shows even a good publisher will not save from being banned. Lesson taken from Isnaini’s case, I think, an AdSense publisher should avoid using a shared IP. The problem with him was that he used the same IP with over 30 other AdSense publishers. There’s possibility that one of them violated the AdSense TOS and, in the end, all publishers with the same IP were banned.

This entry was posted on September 24, 2007 at September 24, 2007 and is filed under Blogger Indonesia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Tina
September 25, 2007 at 3:20 pm

AdSense does have a large share of the self-service ad market, but could you say it owns “all or nearly all of the market”? A survey of the Technorati Top 100 blogs shows that AdSense is the biggest player, but doesn’t even own half of that space. I have all kinds of posts on my blog http://www.monetizationweekly.com about google adsense and their competitors. Please stop by and see me.