Protecting your Google Adsense Account

Protecting your Adsense account is important, especially from idiots who take your adsense code and stick it on their websites.

I know that… But never did anything about it. It’s one of those blatently obvious points I never gave a second thought, until I read about it and thought “idiot!”

I had my “idiot” moment while reading a post on Grizzly’s blog about making money with affiliate marketing. Down near the bottom of the comments, a reply by Grizzly jumped out and gave me a wake up slap. It’s an important piece of information (if you use Adsense).

In your Google Adsense account is a form for adding the domains on which you want your Adsense ads to be published. If your ads appear on any other domains, the ads will display but no clicks (or payments) will be registered. It’s a basic defense mechanism you should use.

Here’s how:

Login into your Adsense account and click on the “Adsense Setup” tab.
Next click on the “Allowed sites” link (under the tabs on the blue link bar at the right hand side).
Click the “Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account” button and then enter each of your domains (one per line) into the text box. Don’t forget to add your Blogger blogs.