Does AdSense allow rotation between 2 accounts?

[daugava]

Here's a hypothetical scenario. Suppose, me and my friend jointly develop a website. Each of us has his own AdSense account. We want our revenue to be split 50/50.

Question is - does AdSense allow showing ads from two different AdSense accounts via rotator on the same site?

Thanks,

Andy

[ogletree]

I would like to know that as well.

[2oddSox]

It's certainly an interesting question. While we're waiting for Jenstar to come up with an answer, ;) , you might want to ask that with Google themselves. They're pretty good at getting back quick with an answer and then you've always got a firm, hard-copy answer for backup later on if the need arises.

2odd...

[Jenstar]

You might want to go right to AdSense to check for that one. With their fraud detecting, it could result in both accounts being suspended, if they check based on each domain rather than each account.

Why not apply for a single AdSense account for that site, and have the check made out to both of you, or to the company name? This would result in splitting the revenue equally between the two of you. They have done this for others.

LOL, 2odd. My answers aren't always correct, and won't likely be the same as others, just my opinion on things ;)

[daugava]

Jenstar,

This would work in my simplified example .However what I am really considering is a bit more complicated. Basically, I am writing a useful tool that webmasters can host on their site. I am planning to offer it free, but inside the code it would have a check to rotate between their own banner ad and mine.

As you can see, in this scenario, a single account would not work.

Of course, if AdSense doesn't like the idea, I'll have to think of other ways to get compensated for my coding efforts.

Andy

[ct2000]

Why no get two accounts and have the different ad codes on different pages? - or use a 3rd party tool like phpads to get a 50/50 split ..

/sorry forget that you just want to know if Google will allow two accounts on one site :) /

[daugava]

ct2000,

Yes, I know how to do the rotation technically.
However, I want to make sure that this would not interfere with AdSense "Terms & Condititions".

Andy

[Jenstar]

Will your AdSense code be appearing on other sites you don't own? If so, there are plenty of "site may not have..." rules you could run afoul with. If you don't have control of these other sites, you could end up losing your account if there are infractions.

And there are the implications from the Google terms about running AdSense on sites you don't own:

You represent and warrant that ... (b) You are the owner of each Site or that You are legally authorized to act on behalf of the owner of such Site(s) for the purposes of this Agreement and the Program

I would interpret this to mean you cannot run your ads on a site you don't own or are authorized to run them on.

[Blue_Fin]

I am writing a useful tool that webmasters can host on their site. I am planning to offer it free, but inside the code it would have a check to rotate between their own banner ad and mine.

That's completely different than what you originally asked.

Why would any webmaster go for this when he can just have his own AdSense account exclusively?

[bhartzer]

What's different in this scenario versus what a lot of banner ad networks are doing: they're running Adsense some of the time while running other banner ads in the sames other times.

[Jenstar]

I believe most of them are part of the AdSense Premium program, which have different rules. And with networks of that magnitude running AdSense, you can be sure that Google is well aware of what they are doing & likely gave permission to the networks before a single banner was displayed.

And the majority of those networks also have rules in place that would cover many of the "site may not have..." rules as well.

[Blue_Fin]

What's different in this scenario versus what a lot of banner ad networks are doing: they're running Adsense some of the time while running other banner ads in the sames other times.

Google has never said that you cannot rotate AdSense ads among other ads. I believe at least one person who posts here does that, in fact. I don't think it's limited to premium publishers. Rotating between one AdSense account and one or more other AdSense accounts is not the same thing as rotating between AdSense and other ad inventory you may have.

[daugava]

Blue_Fin,

My tool would provide webmasters with useful, dynamicaly generated full page content. So I was planning to offer them to do revenue sharing to use the tool.

Everybody else,
Alright, I've come to similar conclusion - even if this doesn't break TOS specifically, it could have unexpected
consequences - showing my code on somebody else's domain
is troublesome, since the webmaster could be spammer; or host adsense-unfriendly content; or double-serve the ads etc.

So, I'll probably do something different, like offering a Lite version of the code for free and charging for complete edition.

Thank you,

Andy

[Blue_Fin]

So, I'll probably do something different, like offering a Lite version of the code for free and charging for complete edition.

I'd recommend Jenstar's advice of clearing this with Google before you devote any time to it. I doubt it would be acceptable.

[CherryHintonBlue]

A colleague was running AdSense ads on part of a site I publish. I subsequently decided to run ads on the rest of the site, but when I applied for an AdSense account, I was declined because I (or at least the domain) had "previously been approved" and it was "not necessary to submit an additional application". I got into an email conversation with the AdSense team about this (and they do reply promptly and politely) but they didn't seem to understand the concept of a second account laying claim to the same domain. I gave up in the end (it wasn't that important). So I'd say you're unlikely to get the go-ahead to run two accounts on the same domain if you try to *register* that domain as the main one for each account.