New Adsense Account for A Friend

can i make him create his blog

[adessa]

My friend wants to open an adsense account but he asked me if I can put the adsense code for him.

This means that I have to access his account. Is this not against TOS?

[leadegroot]

Technically, no, its fine.
Consider that some people build other people's websites for a living, and may put their client's adsense ads on each of those client's websites.
Obviously they must access the account.
However, you may want to be cautious - you will then be associated with the other account. If he does something stupid then your account may be banned by association too.
At very least, I would drop adsense an email, explaining your limited involvement in the other site.
At most I would smilingly decline (if he doesn't know enough to do a really simple thing like put the ads up then he doesn't know enough not to click his own ads....)

Myself, I'd decline.

[Green_Grass]

You could use HIS computer ( not your own) to put the code for him. Make up some excuse --you are teaching him etc.. Avoid mentioning your own vulnerability because people have a nasty habit of taking advantage of any weakness..

[miguelito]

If he is a true friend, i don't see why you have to make up an "excuse". I did this for s friend once ( luckily living in the same town so i had no problem accessing his PC ) and i explained exactly why i didn't want to do it from my PC.

If the friend has a brain, he will understand perfectly why it is better to do it that way to protect both parties from any posssible problems.

What is there to lie about?

[jetteroheller]

When You remember the threads "I could save 3 people", I started one of them at AdSense. I am his web designer since 1998.

So shure I worked on my computer on his AdSense account. I check somtetimes his statistics. How else?

I can not drive always to his computer.

Also he has the strange idea, that a 256 MB computer is enough, so I have also not the time, to wait until his computer does something beside swapping.

[sailorjwd]

Teach him to fish and he'll be able to feed himself for life.

ps. I love my pentium 300 with 256M. If my custom software runs on that then it will run on anything!

[The Contractor]

easy enough to work on his site/ads without logging in. Tell them to create a default ad and have them email you the code. You can design any ad types from within your account, then simply replace/change the publisher id when putting them on his site.

[adessa]

thanks for all your replies. My problem is we are in different countries. I can't go and use his computer. It means there will be two IP addresses accessing his account. Also I have an adsense account.