As a webmaster with many content driven websites, I am always looking for authors to contribute new unique valuable content. And on those content driven websites, we use AdSense as one method of monetizing the content. It would be nice if we could give authors a subaccount that only shows their pages, and as the webmaster, we assign what pages they get paid for. The webmaster also sets up the percentage the author gets. Authors who submit exclusive content could be given a higher percentage of the webmaster’s AdSense revenue whereas authors who submit non-exclusive content could be given a lower percentage, for example.

It would also be better if Authors only had to have one account even if they had content on multiple websites by multiple webmasters.

All the webmaster would have to do is select which pages the author gets a share of the revenue, the percentage of revenue they should get (on a page by page basis or site-wide), and what Google Account should be credited with the money.

The author would be able to log into one account, see the stats for the pages he is credited for, and be able to setup his payment details.

Google then uses the percentage setup by the webmaster and deducts the writers’ portion from the webmaster’s check/direct-deposit and credits the author with that portion.

This would make it easy for authors to get paid for their content and would also give webmasters an easy way to entice authors to write content for their website.

Another thing, if a webmaster knows who is causing the malicious clicks on the Google Ads, the webmaster can ban their IP address server side so they can’t even access their site anymore… or instead show the malicious person a version of the website without Google Ads (so he’s not tempted to try logging in from someone else’s computer to do it again).

If you give the webmaster information on who is causing their AdSense account to be banned, the webmaster can do a lot of things to prevent them from doing it again.

So I would suggest a way to find out the IP Address of the person who clicked on the ads that got the account banned. That way, even if Google refuses to reinstate the account, the webmaster could contact the person’s ISP, find out who was using the account, and get them kicked off their ISP. Which Google proof in hand, many ISPs will kick off someone like that for violating the TOS. Plus, if they are in a favorable jurisdiction, initiate a lawsuit against the person who caused Google to be ban the account. With the Patriot Act and other anti-terror laws, they could easily be fined or thrown in jail for hacking if you have a good lawyer.

Okay, so I’m being a bit extreme, especially about the lawsuit part. But my point is, there has to be some way for webmasters to have recourse against malicious people.

It appears that if you link to a website that is banned by Google, Google AdSense refuses to show ads on that page. And even after you remove the offending link, Google AdSense still doesn’t show any ads. This is a problem for websites that accept links in a directory or for websites with a forum or for websites who accept articles for reprint (which typically have a link back to the author’s home page).

In my case, the offending website appeared legit, submitted an excellent article for reprint on one of my websites, and after checking because I was suspicious of no Google Ads showing up, noticed it did not appear in the Google index at all (which, I assume, means they were banned). All other pages on my thousand plus page website show ads right away, so its very odd that one page out of thousands is the ONLY one that doesn’t show any ads. The only difference on that one page was the link to that particular website and the content of that particular article (headers, footers, etc. are all constant for each section since they are include files).

This also poses a risk for our website that we didn’t really think about. Links in our directory, links in our forum and links in user-submitted articles could potentially penalize our website in Google.

As a webmaster who strives tp present good content and who avoids linking to spam, I would really like an automated way to check what websites are banned or have a low PageRank so we can ban them as well and avoid being penalized by Google for linking to them.

Thank you.

Thanks!

Smell is coming….. something Fishy?

http://example.mattcutts.com

versus like this:

http://www.mattcutts.com/example

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