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Registering your authorized domains with Adsense - why can't you?

Play_Bach

4:23 pm on Nov 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks to the Hijacking post [webmasterworld.com...] - I discovered numerous sites that were framing one of my sites in total and others that were redirecting it. :-Ś

One site - a big directory farm that is probably doing thousands of sites like this - is even putting their Adsense code on the pages - in addition to mine!

I've written Adsense about the problem and provided all the URLs too as well as contacting the hosts with DMCA Violation notices (one of which is RackSpace!) for all the bogus domains . Given that some of these rogue domains are originating in foreign countries - which may or may not obey any orders to cease and desist from the USA - the need to be able to at least register the domains that you are running your Adsense code with Google seems a no-brainer. Does anybody know if Google is planning to provide this and if so, when?

Thanks.

Tropical Island

5:34 pm on Nov 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

It is a no brainer to us however because they have not adopted this seemingly obvious security step there must be more technical problems that they need to overcome.

Either that or no one down there is reading these threads.

Play_Bach

5:55 pm on Nov 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

It's one thing to deal with bogus redirects (certainly annoying and *possible* SE rank penalties), but at least the ultimate destination is your legit site. Quite another to find a site(s) stealing all your content and having the nerve/impunity to run THEIR Adsense code to boot - that just stinks!

Why Google doesn't at least have an alert for when two different Adsense accounts are coming from the same URL escapes me.

ann

6:10 pm on Nov 28, 2005 (gmt 0)

And if they get banned you could have a banned by related to one yourself.

Play_Bach

12:00 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

> And if they get banned you could have a banned by related to one yourself.

Has that actually happened to anybody here? I find it hard to believe Google would actually make a call like that without justification.

jomaxx

12:29 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Neither framing your site nor redirects to your site has anything to do with AdSense. Lots of legit sites do these things, and they won't have any negative conseqences with respect to AdSense.

Play_Bach

12:38 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

> Neither framing your site nor redirects to your site has anything to do with AdSense.
> Lots of legit sites do these things, and they won't have any negative conseqences with respect to AdSense.

Really? Framed sites make for duplicate content - isn't that against the Adsense TOS? Also, the directory site that is framing mine in total and then adding their Adsense code across the top of every page cannot possibly be OK with the TOS, can it?

TruePaige

3:54 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

They don't duplicate the content, they just draw it from your server. Still only one copy.

mrSEman

4:05 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

add code to your site to break out of frames

Play_Bach

4:10 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

> They don't duplicate the content, they just draw it from your server. Still only one copy.

If the exact same Web site contents can be found on multiple URLs besides the rightful domain - then that's duplicate info regardless of whether it's coming off of my server or Mars.

These sites are taking the content, sticking their frame around it, showing their ads, their domain and doing so all without authorization. That's theft - that's what that is - and it's wrong.

Play_Bach

4:19 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

> add code to your site to break out of frames

OK, fair enough - here's their code. What do you suggest?

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>their site - my site</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS='45,*' framespacing=0 border=0 frameborder=0>
<FRAME SRC='top.php?url=http://www.my site.com/' NAME='top' SCROLLING='no' NORESIZE>
<FRAME SRC='http://www.my site.com/' NAME='main'>
</FRAMESET>
<NOFRAMES>
<BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0 bottommargin=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0>
<P>
</BODY></NOFRAMES></HTML>

jomaxx

4:50 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

The frame actually IS your page, so it's not a duplicate. I don't think Google tries to spider frameset elements anyways.

Do a Google search for "break out of frames script" and you'll find lots of examples of how to remove the frame.

Play_Bach

5:15 am on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

> Do a Google search for "break out of frames script" and you'll find lots of examples of how to remove the frame.

Tried a couple of frame-breaking JavaScripts yesterday and the day before - none so far have worked on this code. Do you have something in particular?