Multiple Adsense accounts

[DaveN]

How many people have more than 1 adsense account or login into m0re than one adsense account?

I have too look after 2 client accounts and it always worries me logging into adsense from the same computer.. anyone else have multi-accounts

DaveN

[Marketing Guy]

I have my own + recently got access to a client's account, but I doubt the sums of money involved are anything to warrant alarm bells going off.

I think it would take more than IP address for Google to press the ban button though - at the very least I would expect (niavely?) that some other checks would be in place (design of sites, subject area, interlinking, bank acc details, location, etc).

I'm not particularly worried though - really worst case scenario is that the accounts would be auto-closed (which IMO seems a fairly harsh automated procedure for a business to implement purely based on login IP's), in which case a couple of emails should rectify the situation (assuming all is well).

MG

[asp4bunnies]

I always thought that the one account rule made no sense. I have multiple sites on completely different topics and am worried that smart pricing on one may effect another (I've seen this trend seem to happen, but can't be positive).

[jema]

I detest the one account rule. I run a non profit club, as well as commercial sites. But have to run them with one adsense account. I have had the odd moment when I was not sure I could reconcile what I owed the club :(

[europeforvisitors]

I always thought that the one account rule made no sense.

It makes perfect sense, because it discourages publishers from trying different cheating techniques on different sites. (If a publisher gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar on one site, he'll lose revenues from all his sites. What's wrong with that?)

[jema]

If I register 10 accounts all with the same personal details, then adsense could I presume clobber all 10 if they caught me cheating on one.
If i wanted to cheat, i'd set up sites under multiple id's with multiple addresses.

[sailorjwd]

I've got a corporate and a personal account

[aeiouy]

I've got a corporate and a personal account

Me too.. You can have more then one adsense account, as long as they are set up properly. You can only have a single personal account.

You are not likely to get in trouble logging in to different accounts from the same computer.

The only risk you might run, especially since they are not your accounts, is if one of them gets banned, they could connect the other sites as well and potentially consider them related.

[oddsod]

If a publisher gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar on one site, he'll lose revenues from all his sites. What's wrong with that?

What's wrong is that Google is not infallible.

[Thinkprog]

I think the point is more, how likely it is a adsense account will be closed.

Anyones account got banned so far and why?

[asp4bunnies]

It makes perfect sense, because it discourages publishers from trying different cheating techniques on different sites. (If a publisher gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar on one site, he'll lose revenues from all his sites. What's wrong with that?)

Regardless, I've read here (and don't remember the post), that smart pricing is not uniform per site - it's uniform per account. Since I have some sites that do well and some that possibly don't, it'd be nice to know that one "bad apple" isn't bringing down the rest. (And since there's no way to know which site is influencing smart pricing one way or the other, it's all guesswork).

ASA, if you don't mind clarifying this, I'd appreciate it.