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Can you tell if an Adsense ad belongs to you?

by MaryAnnBarlow
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Happy New Year Everyone!

I have an Adsense account and use it on my sites.

Last week I became an affiliate of XYZ Company and placed their link on a couple of my sites.

That same afternoon... I noticed their company ads (that I'm an affiliate for) advertising on my same 2 sites that I placed their text link on.

They are probably Adsense users too. Is there any way to tell whether those ads are part of my Adsense account or theirs? I do realize that even if the ads belong to my affiliate company... that I'll still get paid for clicks. But I rather get paid the affiliate commission :-)

Thanks,

Mary Ann
#adsense #belongs
  • Profile picture of the author ellbatad
    Open your website in FF or IE - right click - click "view page source" - and compare your adsense pub ID.

    Hope this helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author hilhilginger
    This is very easy.you must know your own pubxxx id when you have registered the adsense account.Then you can seach the same id in the third party link by checking the sourse code.
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    • Profile picture of the author L41db4ck
      If they're appearing in the adsense block that you added to your site then they're under your publisher id, how can they be someone else's? :confused:

      and they will be appearing because adsense knows where you have been and thinks you're interested in that subject/site
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Could be the text links provided more keywords to google which targeted the ads on your page. If your publisher ID is in the ad script, it's your adsense.
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  • Profile picture of the author gittar1122
    To verify these ads belong to your adsense account, check your publisher ID from adsense account and compare it with publisher ID in HTML source code of adsense box. So if it is same then no need to worry, its your adsense account working but if not then check how someone's ads displaying on your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      You have to remember that Google adsense is contextual and so if you have a text link advertising their product, when Adsense crawls your site it will view this text link as part of your content and pull up ads related to it accordingly - in this case the same product.

      You can go into adsense and exclude that url from appearing on your site if it is an issue.
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      • Profile picture of the author L41db4ck
        Originally Posted by Devid Farah View Post


        You can go into adsense and exclude that url from appearing on your site if it is an issue.
        Which is exactly what you should do if you want people to click through your affiliate text link and not through their(XYZ Co) adsense ad.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaryAnnBarlow
    I'd like to thank everyone (again) for taking the time to help me with my dilemma. In addition... I'll give Devid Farah extra thanks because you also gave me a great solution if the ads are indeed from my affiliate provider.

    I am off to check now since I am educated!

    Thanks,

    Mary Ann :-)
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