Comments on: AdSense Add ‘Allowed Sites’ Feature

By: Andos

Andos — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:14 +0000

@Jan London: That’s a nice info. Thank you

By: Shamim

Shamim — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:26:35 +0000

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By: Benny

Benny — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:12:43 +0000

Well, I think its a good feature. You just have to go throu the list of disallowed sites and allow them if they are ok(such as google cached pages). Potentially you miss a few clicks at first, but soon you will have the list of most search engines cache servers.

By: Jan London

Jan London — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:40:52 +0000

Bad, bad, bad.

No-one has spotted one thing here! Let’s start from beginning… I activated “allowed sites” about a week ago. Suddenly, my earnings went down by about 30%-40%. Why? Really why?

Was anyone using my adsense code on his pages? Not sure. OK, so I decided to wait. Yesterday I opened the “allowed sites” console and found many IPs and domains showing my ads without permission. OK, but what sites am I talking about?

Here is the result: Various Google’s IPs, images.google.com.something (au, es, fr, and many others) + aol search (which works as frame – top frame is aol and bottom frame is your site) + some translator site.

What is my point? The “Allowed sites” feature is not perfect because it automatically lowers your earnings. If anyone clicks on your ad through images.google.com.au and you don’t allow this URL to be valid for your ads, you will lose money.

So I allowed all sites to show and operate with my ads and my night earnings were 50% higher than average night earnings during the last week when I was using “allowed sites”.

I already sent a message to Google so am hoping that they will solve it somehow.

“Allowed sites” is great feature, but it should be designed in another way… Blocking instead of allowing. If Google shown us URLs where clicks come from, we would be able to block “bad” domains. It would be more simple.

By: her

her — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:03:33 +0000

I found that there are some website displaying google ads that is not in usual format.

How that could happen..does it allowed

By: simon

simon — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:40:27 +0000

This Allowed Sites Feature is created by Google China Team. The reason to add the feature is because some AdSense publishers are concerned about potentially malicious behavior from others on the web such as stealing their ad code and placing it on an inappropriate site.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:20:09 +0000

I don’t really see the point behind this, if at all someone wanted to get you banned, they don’t have to rip your pub code and place it somewhere else and THEN click the hell out of it, they can do so right on your site! Maybe Google is trying to find a way to clamp down on that too and we may see a development on that soon enough.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:34:11 +0000

This feature must not be available to all publishers yet because I can’t find it in my control panel either.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:54:25 +0000

Wow cant believe it took them this long to get it out. I stumbled upon a forum a couple of weeks ago and two guys were talking on how to sabotage another using their Adsense account. WTG Google.

JOSH

By: buzzware

buzzware — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:13:23 +0000

why in my account there’s no “Allowing Site”??

By: Roffi Grandiosa

Roffi Grandiosa — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:41:02 +0000

cant they hide the code?.. just my 0.02$

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:16:42 +0000

I guess it’s a good thing they are planning ahead.

Then again if someone like Darren “accidentally” used my adsense code on let’s say… ProBlogger… well I wouldn’t mind that at all ;)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:24:15 +0000

I don’t see it as a bad thing, but think they need to expand it and add a third option where you can select sites you dont want to work. Maybe its my own paranoia, but I would rather like to say who I dont want to have access to as well plus I could see an advantage or two to having specific pages within ones own site where you would like to keep yourself from making a mistake.

By: Sydney

Sydney — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:16:08 +0000

I’m sure there’s just something here that I’m missing but what would be in it for someone else to get your number banned? I mean, it seems like a lot of work for nothing. What’s in it for them? They can’t make money off of your number, and if they get you extra impressions and you don’t get banned, they are actually making YOU money. So why on earth would some nameless faceless person out on the net want to do this to you, someone they don’t even know, running some small site somewhere? Can someone please clue me in?

By: erch

erch — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:10:00 +0000

this option for safety to the publisher for clickfraud

and this option very useful for almost publisher

By: Million Dollar Homeboy

Million Dollar Homeboy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:59:59 +0000

I like the addition of this option, but I don’t think it goes far enough. I wish they would add an IP filter or something else to decrease the chance of click fraud. Also, if a site that doesn’t meet Google’s TOS is using my pub number, how would I know???

By: Tay - Make Money Blogging

Tay - Make Money Blogging — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:41:39 +0000

I’ve wondered about them having something like this before. It’s quite easy to show another person’s ads, and then when you abuse them that person could get banned. Way to go, Google! :)

By: Hip Hop

Hip Hop — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:18:42 +0000

I don’t think this would be very useful to me, I don’t really mind what sites are showing on my site.

By: mamat

mamat — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:13:45 +0000

Thats really goods. actually for some people have to hang out only for internet marketing to live lolz…

By: Tihomir

Tihomir — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:02:21 +0000

This option is very useful and I knew they will implement such a function soon. Many people are worried about pub-id hijacking issue that could lead to Google account suspension.