A Funny Adsense Exploit

You know how clicks on Google’s own search pages are more expensive than ones through the Adsense publisher network? I think Google claims that people using search engines are in the buying mood, whereas people browsing websites might randomly click an ad. (And this is commonly accepted, as advertisers pay more for clicks coming straight from Google.)

Did you ever think that Google was just greedy? Perhaps they display high-paying ads on their search pages (where they keep all the revenue) while displaying the cheap ads on Adsense publisher pages (where they have to split the revenue.)

There was an interesting discussion at the Warrior forum last month that revealed an Adsense exploit that allows publishers to take advantage of this. A member found that if you remove your publisher ID from the Adsense code for a couple days, Google will start to display some very high-paying ads (compared to what they were displaying.)

Then you can put your pub ID back in and reap the rewards for a few days, until Google replaces the ads with more low-paying ones. It’s a shady tactic and could get you banned, but the results were interesting.

So in situations where Google is not splitting revenue with anyone, they display the highest-paying ads. Switching your pub ID to someone else’s will not do this, so that’s further proof that the big G is keeping it all to themselves!

Warning: Removing the pub-ID alters the Adsense code, and could very well get you banned. Try this at your own risk.

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