Making use of Google Adsense’s ‘Allowed Sites’ whitelist is becoming an increasingly useful tool to webmasters.
Why would anyone want to display your ads on their site? Surely they’d want to earn the cash themselves? Well, obviously there’s something more than the obvious going on.
I speak from experience in recent months whereby my account was receiving a massive amount of invalid (£0) clicks from units with no channels; and since I keep check of all my ads via channels, I knew they were ‘outside’ clicks for whatever reason.
Following that, I also discovered that Shawn Hogan of DigitalPoint had experienced the same thing, where his AdSense account was unfairly suspended due to clicks from disallowed websites. So this brought my theory to proof; people are adding your Publisher ID to their adverts on their blacklisted websites as a form of attack!
So I cannot stress how important it is to use the Allowed Sites feature Google provide. It’s there for a reason, and let’s face it; who in their right mind is going to display your ads without contacting you first, unless it’s malicious? Well it’s unlikely to say the least. And if it was legit, they could let you know to add them to the whitelist – simple!
To access the whitelist simply login to your AdSense account, and navigate to AdSense Setup > Allowed Sites.
Exclusive Tips:
Many people view your websites using Google translate and other Google apps! Adding google.com to the list will not work as the translation program uses a different domain (googleusercontent.com) to access your website. So be sure to add googleusercontent.com to the list so you allow clicks via Google Translate and any other tools under subdomains on that domain!
Any more tips will be added as I discover them!
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