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Now, with my brother, we have started a business and will soon be opening a site for this business. We want to open an adsense account that will be associated with this business and the account will be in the business name.
Will it be a problem if I'm logging in to check both my personal and business accounts with identical IP addresses. I heard this could be an issue.
Myself, I've checked up to three accounts from the same PC. One that is mine personally, one that is a corporation's, and one that's my mom's. Never had a problem.
You may or may not have problems opening a second account if it has your name on it. You probably don't want it to be solely in your brother's either. You can form a corporation with three people. Now if only one of you are married, you could meet the three person rule, but can run into problems later (for example, you and your wife can overrule just your brother, or vice-versa). So hopefully both of you are married and all four can start the corporation, or perhaps you can talk one of your parents into it (just make sure the parent likes you the best :) ). It's a bit more paperwork, but if you ever have problems down the line...well the corporation is just like a person. It can own the site, and if you have let's say legal problems, the corporation gets sued for everything it owns (which would be limited to just the site or other business related stuff, none of your personal possessions). Also it makes signing up for Adsense a snap, the corporation is it's own entity, so no problems if you AND your brother had individual accounts already.
I have two corporations each with its own Adsense account. Since a corporation is a legal entity, two accounts is very legit and above board in terms of complying with Adsense's TOS. I didn't try to hide anything from Adsense. The address and contact information for both accounts is the same.
I use the same computer to log into both accounts, typically one immediately after the other. I have for over two years.
I have noticed when I get my monthly checks that that "client ID" is the same on both checks even though they have different account numbers. So clearly Adsense knows of the relationship between the accounts. There isn't a question in my mind that if one account got banned that they would probably ban the other account too.
But as leadegroot said, my question was more towards the adsense side of things, the LLC already having been set up. I think I'll just contact G about this. If we set up the biz account and put my brother's name and address in the contact info, then I go logging in, that might cause some issues.