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I work many hours a day on my site, and I'm respecting the TOS.
The problem is that my site is hosted in a subdirectory o a friend's site. The adress of my site is www.widget.com/red_widget.
My friend also Adsense on the widget.com domein, but ofcourse not on my page. He has a difrent account. The problem is - if his account by any chance gets suspended from AdSense will i be suspended to? Is suspension given for site domein of for AdSense account?
I thought about mailing this question to AdSense support, but that might not be such a great idea...
The whole site gets banned, and your pages are just a subdirectory on his site.
Domains names and hosting are cheap, get your own as soon as possible.
You might want to find your own place on the net. Domains are not that expensive anymore (below $10 per year if you search a little bit around) and also hosting won't cost you much money. If you are monetizing your site with AdSense, your own domain on the net would be your best first investment IMHO.
You can use permanent redirects to make sure your SE traffic are kept and begin the process of getting your inbound links changed to your own domain.
In the long run, it will benefit you to be "on your own". Not only for adsense, but any other issues that might come up between you and your friend.
I can't afford loosing that
You can't afford loosing your AdSense income also. I once did such a move with pain in my hearth and it costed me 6 months to recover my SE rankings. But I am glad I did it because it gives so much more freedom. By having proper 301 redirects and informing the parties that are currently linking to your content the damage can be minimized, although short time ranking damage will occur during the transition.
[edited by: lammert at 6:05 pm (utc) on Sep. 22, 2005]
Its not that I don't afford hosting of my own, but I have the site for 2 years on this address and I am very well placed in search engines and have a lot of sites linking to my address.... I can't afford loosing that
If you want to do anything serious with your site, you'll really have to make the shift to your own domain at SOME time. Better sooner than later. You don't have to lose the links or the search engine rankings.
My site started out as a small personal site, a subdirectory of my Internet provider's address. After three years I switched to a domain name. I posted notices on the old one and kept it live for a while after I started using the domain name. I emailed people who had links to the old site, urging them to update them. The one thing I should have done, but didn't, was to replace all the pages on the old site with a redirect to the new one, and then leave that up for a while.
There were a few hiccups but I'm very glad I made the move. People take you more seriously if you have a domain name.
Plan the change and make it as soon as you can.
