Hello everyone! I know this question should ultimately be asked of AdSense team, but I wanted to check with this group before just to see if I'm not too far off base here. I have another person pretty much taking over a significant portion of one of my modestly successful sites with AdSense ads on it. I am still supporting the server and do all the tech stuff, but the person is taking care of content, user support and pretty much day-to-day operation of just this one large section of the site. It used to be on voluntary basis, but I want to start paying this person for the effort. Now, here is the heart of the matter: I don't want to incorporate or even mess with 1099s at the end of the year and I don't want to pay the person out of my after-tax money either. Instead, I would put two publisher codes into rotation on just this section of the site, just like Shawn is doing right here on DP forums. So, basically, any money earned would come directly from Google, and so will the 1099 form for tax purposes. Two of the practical issues I'm seeking people's opinion on are: TOS Compliance I cannot find any reference to this situation in TOS. Am I going to be in compliance? I guess, DP is doing it for couple years now and it did not backfire, so I hope this is OK. How the other person would apply for AdSense account? That is, when you apply for a new account, you have to tell them your site address. The main page is already on file with them for my own account. Can the new applicant show Google a URL of a section of the site, not the homepage? Thanks for all your responses, guys! And yes, if your first reaction is: " run it by Google", I am absolutely going to run it by Google before it goes live, but I did not want to ask stupid questions if someone here already had similar situation and can tell that it's not going to work for whatever reason. Cheers!
1. Yes for sure you're going to be compliant. You could even give him 2 adsense blocks and keep one for yourself on the same page if you simply ask Google for the permission to do so. 2. You could try opening an account with, for example, a sub domain of your website. Make an URL like this yourfriend.yoursite.com and have some proper content there, then ask them to open an account. Or the easiest way is he opens a blogger account, submit a few posts and ask for adsense.
Senserely.com screwed me. I've posts several articles on their blog and submitted them to digg.com but then my Adsense ID won't show up when traffic comes from digg.
As I've said, when traffic comes from digg (or maybe not just digg but reddit, del.icio.us, etc), they are displaying their own Adsense ID instead of the user. You will see a message like "DIGG IS OK BUT YOU ARE A GEEK..." I forgot the rest.
Hello, I'm the webmaster of Senserely.com and it's certainly not the way I've setup my website. If you come from DIGG, or other big referrers such as DigitalPoint you get a personnalised message, but that's where the originality stops. It's the first time ever that someone mentions this, anyway.