What To Do If Someone Pastes Your AdSense Code On His Site

There are several reasons why you should be worried if “Someone Pastes Your AdSense Code On His Site” You are supposed to be the only one who has the authority to use a particular AdSense account and code.

Again, you alone can determine which websites you want to put paste your code on to show ads and earn from the ads shown.

However, there are instances where you may get an alert from Google that “We found your ad code on one or more sites that aren’t on your site list. To avoid revenue loss, make sure you add all your sites to the site list. Click Yes to add or No …”

The above is a sample of the message from Google to you via your AdSense account.

What To Do If Someone Pastes Your AdSense Code On His Site

If you have not permitted anyone to use your AdSense code on their website. Please and kindly Click on No. 

Do not make any mistake of clicking yes. If you do that, you would have given permission to whoever owns that website to use your code.

Sometimes, it may be that, someone viewed a cached page from your site. If that is what led to your AdSense code showing, then you are safe.

However, If AdSense shows you a site’s home page link e.g. Sitename.com, you need to either find out about the site and the owner and why that is happening.

Sometimes, this will happen because the site owner copied content from your end illegally and in doing so, copied your code as well. If that is the case, you may report them to Google or file a DMCA.

Check how to report illegal content copying from your site here [Report DMCA no] but note that it is always best to contact the owner of the site and settle the issue without this unless the person is proving stubborn

Whatever the reason, never click YES. Always click No. It is always a No. This will keep your account safe.

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Note that, the posting of your code on another website without your authorization may be done by competitors who want to harm you. Unfortunately, there is no direct way for you to contact Google with such an issue than to start Google support.

Regardless, choosing ‘no’ was the right thing to do, and you will not be held responsible for any problems that may arise because your code is on another site.

Source: Ghana Education News