How to use authorized sites feature to protect your AdSense account
In this article, you can learn how to use the authorized sites feature to protect your AdSense account and how to add trusted sites to the authorized sites list.
In order to protect your AdSense account from being abused by fraud sites, you must enable the feature "Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account" in your AdSense account. Most AdSense publishers ignore this and later become victim of click fraud and other abuse which could result in disabling their AdSense accounts.
By enabling this feature, you are letting Google know that your AdSense Ad should be considered only in a specific list of sites you allow. Any use and clicks from any other sites will be ignored and thus you can keep your AdSense account in good standing with Google.How to enable site authorization in AdSense?
Follow the steps below to enable to option to allow only selected sites to use your AdSense account:
Login to your AdSense account.
- Click on "Gear" icon on the top right corner
- Click on "Settings"
- Look for "Access and authorization"
- Look for "Site Authorization" just below.
- Enable the option "Only allow certain sites to show ads for my account"
If the above checkbox is not checked, check it and save. Then you will see a textbox below.
In this textbox, you must provide a list of sites that you trust and you want your AdSense Ads to be displayed.
You can specify multiple sites, one URL per line.
On the right side of the textbox, you may see a list of sites displayed, which are the sites that currently use your Ad code but are not in the list. If you trust the site listed there, you may add it to the authorized sites list.
You may see many sites like Google cache, Bing cache etc using your Ad code. Even though such sites are reliable, it is possible that others could abuse it by showing your Ads in bad sites and then clicking on them when it is displayed in Google cache.
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