Is AdSense ban against a web as well as individual?

How does a publisher being banned effect the web site?

[wildfiction]

Before I write this I would like to point out that I haven't been banned but this question was raised on another board.

If Google ban your AdSense account they disabled your publisher-id which obviously means that any web site that you have with AdSense will stop displaying their ads - right?

How does that effect a particular web site? If you then take someone else's publisher id and put it on a web site then the web site would be up and running with AdSense pretty fast afterwards...

Also, say someone was malicious, they could pick up your publisher-id off your web site and add it to a blog (blogger.com for example because Google also own that) that they've created and then execute click fraud to have your publisher-id dissabled.

I'm interested in hearing your comments...

[ken_b]

Both the publisher, and the website are banned.

The publisher can't use adsense anymore, and other publishers can't place adsense on the site.

[davec]

So is it just the site submitted with the account application, or every other site you've ever placed the code on?

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[stuartc1]

so are you asking this?

1. A bad person takes the victims publishers id from their website.
2. Then find a site that is against the adsense rules and place the adsense code with the victims pub id on it.
3. Tell google that the victim has been bad and is breaking the rules, point them to the prevously place ad.
4. Laugh like a maniac when the victim gets banned.

Surely google has ways to safeguard against this kind of fraud. I sure hope so anyway!

[wildfiction]

Okay, so we've established that your personal publisher-id is banned - that's obvious enough.

Now I doubt that any site that your publisher-id has been on is banned because that would mean that blogger.com would get banned.

So, which sites get banned along with your publisher-id?

[WelcomeToChina]

I think Google bans the person,not the site.

[europeforvisitors]

I think Google bans the person,not the site.

I'd guess that, as ken_b says, it's both. Otherwise, it would be too easy for dishonest publishers to launder AdSense money through their family or friends.

[WelcomeToChina]

If an account gets banned,it's because the person cheated,not the web.
Many blog sites have adsense,i don't think Google will ban the web if one of the bloggers gets banned.

[Lex_Luther]

It would be nice if the ASA would chime in on stuartc1 post, msg 4. That scenerio is possable and frightening.

[jomaxx]

I think it's been reasonably well established that both the individual and the website are affected.

As for whether that specific scenario could happen, Google are very smart but the Web has a lot of holes in it and they're not omniscient. So of course it could theoretically happen. As to whether this scenario is plausible, I've seen more believable story lines in Bruce Willis movies.