Are you paranoid?

telling Google everything

[too much information]

I just realized that every time I make a change to my site (since I have been approved for AdSense) that will affect AdSense I send an e-mail to Google to notify them about it so that it doesn't send up any red flags.

For example, I have a site where I just added a link that translates the site to 8 languages, 5 of which are not supported by AdSense. So I discover that the ads are appearing in unsupported languages, and then I go in and block them from that IP. After that is done, I go to Google and confess that Mediabot is going to hit a page in chinese with my AdSense code.

Does anyone else do this? I feel like I'm going overboard keeping them up on everything, but at the same time I would hate to be dropped and have to explain my way back in.

[jomaxx]

If you're in effect breaking the rules of the TOS, I would certainly inform them. Better would be not to do it at all.

How are you doing the translation and why can't you automatically not show AdSense ads for nonsupported languages? Doing it on an IP basis doesn't seem like the right solution.

[too much information]

I found a translator through Babel fish, which works pretty well, the problem is that the site is loaded through their frameset so they translate the final HTML result, not my actual files. The Javascript from AdSense was not translated

I just banned the IP from seeing my ads with a simple IF statement in ASP. It took care of the problem, but I didn't want Mediabot to be mad at me. ;o)

[jomaxx]

First, I'm sure Google are smart enough to realize what is happening if you use a service as large as BabelFish.

Second, Google offer the exact same service (look under "Language Tools"). In fact, I did a head-to-head comparison last year and found that Google's translation was slightly more accurate (despite the fact that they both seem to be based on Systran).

Plus I just tried Google's version and they do insert relevant ads into the translated page. But in the BabelFish (Alta Vista) version they just show public service ads.