Protecting yourself from Google’s prying adsense eyes

Many of you know I was banned from the Adsense program last year but in fact I had two accounts banned at the same time. The reason for this is that despite what you read our friends over at the plex do monitor how and where you log into your account from. The ONLY reason I had two accounts banned at one time is that I had logged into Adsense from the same IP, no other reason.

I also know of other people who had accounts banned for the same reason (In fact I know someone who had a relative banned for using his pc to check his Adsense). This got me thinking so IF i was still doing Adsense i would: -

Make sure the PC i applied from or created my Google account from was ‘clean’
Once approved login from that clean PC and set up custom reports
Have these reports email you at a free email address with your stats once a week (Hello hotmail!)
Never Ever Ever login again

You don’t need to check your stats every day – once a week is enough. I’m am with Quadzilla on that, you can get too paranoid and check them every two minutes but day to day changes aren’t what you need to track its longer terms trends. In my opinion Google turn the tap on and off when it suits them.

A clean PC is defined as new IP, new location, no chance of it being used by someone afterwards to log into a Google service.

If you do this you should minimise your risks of getting the new account associated with the old and therefore banned too. Never say never though.

One thing that might have occurred to you when reading this is – “Yeah but how do I get new advert codes or set up channels?”

Advert codes – its standard code just find a site with an ad on you like and change the PUB Id
Channels – Googles channels blow anyway – either write yourself an ad tracking and serving system (It ain’t that hard trust me) or just install and use Adlogger.

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