Turning Peter into Paul for 2nd Adsense pub Id

[ericvanbuskirk]

You're approved through acb.com for adsense

you have several sites with that pub ID

You want to create a new acct to spread your risk because lets get real....there are click bombers and there are hackers that are causing a lot of people to lose accts....

So you give one of your sites to your friend who's at another address, strip the adsense, and apply for another acct.

Is there anyway that adsense team will in the future associate the two Pub IDs assuming they don't say "hey, you are applying for an acct with a domain that used to be using anothr pub ID"

If one of the two gets closed, is there anyway they would look and see that at one time both used the same pub ID even though one was not one used to get an account approved?

[trannack]

Quite possible - "account closed because related to a previously banned account".....sound familiar?

[jchampliaud]

Sooner or later Google will find out that the same person is behind both accounts. I just don't see the risk as that great. I've had my AdSense account since 2003 and never had any problems. Playing games like this will just get you kicked out.

[mvander]

Your friend will also be responsible for paying the taxes on your "other" account also. That could get messy too.

[Publisher]

The only way to do this is to create a separate entity, i.e., in the States, an LLC. You would then have a separate EIN for the new entity and the entity would not be you personally.

[europeforvisitors]

You want to create a new acct to spread your risk

It's more likely that you'll increase your risk of having your AdSense account(s) disappear.

Trying to deceive a smart, capable business partner isn't likely to be a winning strategy for stability and growth.

[edited by: europeforvisitors at 3:54 pm (utc) on Oct. 11, 2006]

[ska_demon]

Heh Heh Welcome to WebmasterWorld anyways

Ska

[trannack]

Look into adsense business account - you could then have more than one account for different domains - but all will still be registered to you. This way Adsense is not being defrauded in any way - and you are potentially covering your a**e!

[plasma]

I have an adsense account for my company.
Additionally I participate in an open source project that is totally disjunct from the company.

Is it ok, to have 2 Accounts that way? (2 legal entities?)

[vanbuskirk]

part of my reason for being so suspicious is that I've seen this happen around me. In one case I lost $1000s from a hacker that inserted his pub id and then I would guess did click fraud or something to pump HIS money and that got me closed.

BUT I own two companies (one is just an LLC run from home and the other is a corporation with employees, about 6 working on our owned websites).

So I stilll have one.

I track stats with Adsense Gold and I've seen one case-- I don't look too carefully-- of one IP clicking on 55 of the same ad. I just wonder how many cooks are out there that will do what they can to get accts closed.

I will say this. If you run 1 or more blogs about the right wing side of the Replican Party or how great the war in Iraq is ...that is the kind of thing that is a setup for a cook to go out of his way.