Adsense for two contributors with one site?

[weela]

Forgive me if this has been asked, I tried all of the keyword combinations I could think of to get an answer, to no avail.

Can anyone recommend a way for two individuals to ‘share’ adsense revenue, it’s my understanding that adsense wont allow two publisher id’s to originate off the same page. My partner and I both want to benefit from adsense on our shared site, but we both currently operate our own separate sites. I’m trying to figure out a way to do this without problems arising from our ‘personal’ accounts being credit with a shared work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[ganderla]

Use one account and channels to figure out whos ads were clicked.

[weela]

Yeah, that exactly what we're trying to avoid.

Does anyone know if its possible to 'split' the revenue between two accounts?

i.e if two pub id's are used what happens?

[RobinK]

Couldn't you just operate your shared site as a business with its own ein number. Then it could have its own adsense account.

[maximillianos]

If you are going to be business partners, you have to trust each other. Use one account, use channels. Split the revenue that way. Just make sure you both have login access to the stats. No secrets, no problems. (hopefully... ;-)

[walrus]

<it’s my understanding that adsense wont allow two publisher id’s to originate off the same page.>

I bet that was a lot of peoples understanding but one post in this recent thread says they do, maybe you should write them about this.

Heres the thread
[webmasterworld.com...]

[martingale]

Yes you can.

Create two AdSense accounts and create two copies of all the AdSense HTML fragments for your site. On one half put ads generated for your AdSense ID. On the other half put ads generated for their AdSense ID.

Now you have some choices: (a) put your AdSense ads on your content, and theirs on their content, assuming you can easilly divide it. Or (b) write a server-side include that "rotates" the ads between your account and their account, so that sometimes it displays your ads, and sometimes theirs. Set the rotation frequency to equal the amount of effort each of you has put into the site, maybe 50-50, maybe 30-70, whatever you agree between you.

The revenues won't be divided exactly evenly, obviously there will be some statistical variations, but in the long run it should work out to the % you decided on.

I believe there is a PHP script out there to do this somewhere but I can't recall where it is. It shouldn't be difficult to write your own either.

Note: I haven't tried this, and I am not sure whether it would violate the TOS, I don't think it would providing each page either shows only your content or only theirs, but maybe you better check.

[martingale]

Note that it is absolutely against the TOS to modify the AdSense code, so what you have to do is swap in and out an entire block of unmodified AdSense code. You cannot modify their code to do the randomization I think.

Still you better check with them just to be safe.