How To Maintain Your Google Adsense Account - Four More AdSense Tips

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Tip #3: Increase your website security 

An often ignored important action is increasing website security. If your website is not secured, you can run into all kinds of problems. For example, a hacker can break into your site and alter your Google AdSense code without your knowledge. When Google finds out that your AdSense code has been altered, you will have an account-related issue. Hackers can also break in and plant malware on your site; when that happens, your site is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines, which also affects your AdSense Account. Not securing your website also means that any unauthorized person with access to your CMS can add malicious content that violates Google's AdSense guidelines.

Details on securing your website are beyond the scope of this tutorial, but you can take several steps to get you off to a good start. First, frequently back up all your website files and databases. Second, update your CMS to use the latest version (to remove any vulnerabilities, etc.). And third, hire a web security expert to examine your site's vulnerabilities and correct those problems.

Tip #4: Know EXACTLY what content you are publishing

Some websites allow users to publish any content they like. If you own a site like this, and use Google AdSense, then most likely you will experience content-related issues in the future. Examples of these content-related issues include users publishing a lot of racial, gambling, hacking-related and pornographic content, etc. See a complete list in the "content guidelines" from Google. Another content-related issue you may have to deal with is content that infringes copyright.

There are four steps that are the best practices to resolve this issue. First, moderate all publishing of content on your site which comes from other users. Know exactly what type of content will be published and make sure it won't violate the site's terms of service. Second, moderate all comments on your site. Third, implement strict editorial review of all content to be published. And fourth, review all content that has previously been published and ensure that it is within the guidelines.

Tip #5: Review all competing ads on your site

There might be some advertising service for publishers that is formatted exactly the same as Google AdSense. In this case, make sure to consult the Google AdSense community to see if someone has already tried it out.

It would be smart to limit the ads to something that you really need. Some sites have used Infolinks, Amazon Affiliates and Google AdSense together on one site without any problem.

Tip #6: Remove ads unrelated to your site

Unrelated ads can result in low AdSense income. In some special cases, some unrelated ads might appear frequently on your site. Below are the steps you can resolve this issue:

1. In the Firefox browser, right click over the unrelated ads or banners, and then click "Copy Link Location." Make sure NOT to click the ads! This is against TOS.
   
   
2. Paste it to notepad or any text editor.
   
   
3. Extract the domain of the adurl parameter. For example, if the adurl parameter is www.seochat.com, then the domain name would be seochat.com.
   
   
4. Log in to your Google AdSense account and click AdSense setup to go to the "Competitive Ad Filter."
   
   
5. Under "AdSense for Content filters," enter the domain name of the unrelated ad.
   
   
6. Click "Save Changes."

Lastly, do not forget to read the details of Google AdSense policies, outlined here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182 and do not ever try altering the Google AdSense code. Just copy and paste what is provided by Google during AdSense setup, and you are done.

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