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Allowed Google Sites - Has Anyone Made A List?

What about all the Google-this and Google-that sites?

Sally Stitts

10:45 pm on Apr 27, 2010 (gmt 0)

Has anyone created a list of all the legitimate Google sites that appear in our stats? Why doesn't Google just give us a White List? Too easy?

Should I allow in the cache stuff? The translation stuff?
Any other stuff?

Are we losing a bunch of money because many Google sites are "not allowed"? Why doesn't Google just tell us this? Is it because all the revenue generated reverts to Google? Are we simply "masked out", and not "Allowed" to receive revenue from these sites?

Why do they even show us these sites, if they don't expect us to do something about them? Perplexed.

And then of course, there are the Bing and Yahoo similar cache and translation types of pages. What about them? Google gets paid anyway, right? Do we? Should we?

johnmoose

9:25 am on Apr 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

I figured that if ads were shown on these translation sites (or even cached) and that if people are clicking them I should get paid for that. So I added them (after checking if they really were ok) to my allowed site list. Not sure if my list is complete though.

AndyA

12:26 pm on Apr 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

This same question was asked several months back, but no one from Google ever responded. I've been watching, and I haven't seen that many clicks from unauthorized sites, so in my case it's not a big issue.

leadegroot

11:46 am on Apr 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

I thought we didn't get paid when the click was on a Google property?
Can't remember why I think that, though... ;(

alika

4:03 pm on Apr 29, 2010 (gmt 0)

I've had my sites copied including my Adsense code.

I have to fill up that Allowed Sites section and list only my own sites in there. So if the copycat tries to sabotage my Adsense account by clicking repeatedly on the ads showing on his/her website using all my content, then I won't have to suffer for it.

This is the kind of scenario where the Allowed Sites section is most useful -- so you can tell Google where your codes should only appear.