Adsense and Multiple Sites Owner

Should we be careful?

[AthlonInside]

If we post adsense on all our sites, say 5 of them. Google will know you own all the 5 sites. And if they ban one of the site, they might ban the remaining 4, because they catch you.

what do you say?

Do you think they will use adsense to track ownerships of sites?

[MyGen]

Absolutely!

But would you blame google, if you do something against the TOS that would cause them to ban you on one site, it's only natural that they would assume you are likely to repeat your TOS breaking on your other sites...

Although, there have been cases of google simply blocking ads being served on the offending sites, whilst the others continue as normal...

[ann]

I believe it is the person that is banned and not just the website. If that were not true then you would be able to log into your adsense after a banning and that you can't do no matter how many sites you have.

Your account is gone, bye bye, forever.

Ann

[Jenstar]

Do you think they will use adsense to track ownerships of sites?

They do strictly for AdSense purposes. If your account is suspended, all your sites you have run AdSense on will no longer be allowed to show AdSense.

But getting suspended (or not) with AdSense has absolutely no bearing on your regular Google search results. Nor does getting banned in the regular Google search results have any bearing on your AdSense account.

[AthlonInside]

The discussion has been spread off a bit. My actual concern is since Google doesn't like the same owner to own multiple listing in the search (if he got multiple sites). They can know it through a lot of means such as whois, IP, etc but I think they will also use Adsense as one of the way.

What do you think?

[ann]

What on earth do you mean? Most webmakers own multible sites and never give it a second thought...neither does the Googlebot as it cheerfully snarfs up each site it runs across.

Ann

[bnhall]

I think AthlonInside means what if a single entity ran 10 sites about red widgets, and if those 10 sites were SERPs 1 through 10 on Google. Would google figure out, using Adsense, that the same entity owns all 10, and thus make it so that the same entity couldn't have SERPs 1-10?

[edd1]

You sound as if you're doing something bad when you talk about 1 site getting banned.

Maybe you are but webmasters always seem to feel guilty and worried as if they are doing something wrong when they're not. There's nothing wrong with optimising websites if its in the visitors interests.

Google definitely know who own multiple sites etc but so what? There will always be someone doing something far worse than you and if they link all their sites together one ban could easily make 5 bans regardless of whether adsense is on the site.

[AthlonInside]

<block>There will always be someone doing something far worse than you and if they link all their sites together one ban could easily make 5 bans regardless of whether adsense is on the site. </block>

Most of the time, the bad guys are alive and not-so-bad guys being kicked.

That's why Google still need PhDs and Engineers to work hard.

[sren]

Most of the time, the bad guys are alive and not-so-bad guys being kicked.

I'm not so sure.
Usually people complains because they were banned.
But they never show us their "nice and clean" website. Perhaps they don't have it.

Some bad guys are alive, agreed.
But I wouldn't sleep well if I were one of them.